I loved Reddit for what it is, but nothing made me back out of a post faster than seeing the top 3 parent threads as a regurgitation of the same inside jokes, pun-chains, and so on.

  • @zkxsEnglish
    11•1 year ago

    I’m also eyeballing Tildes as a Reddit alternative, and their dev has an interesting approach to increasing signal-to-noise ratio. They don’t have downvotes, but they have labels that affect how comments are sorted, with the joke and noise labels moving comments down in the sort by a pretty significant amount.

    • SensEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      Tildes developer has openly said they don’t intend for it be a replacement for reddit, and that kinda is what makes me come here instead.

      If they aren’t open to the idea, it will never happen.

      Not saying they should open the floodgates either, it’s mainly that the use cases and end goal for Tildes vs Lemmy are completely different

    • @TheTimeKnife@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      That sounds like it could work pretty well, you could even just add it on to other comment sort styles. You don’t need to necessarily remove downvotes if you really want them in specific instances.