Upvotes/downvotes shouldn’t reflect how much you agree with the content. It should be a metric for whether it adds something of value to the fediverse.
Otherwise, default sort would just be an echo chamber.
That could be its own interesting question too; I imagine pragmatic case-use will differ with a significant portion of the userbase treating them as likes/dislikes.
Is agreement and humor not a value? I, myself, put a lot of value into whoever can make me laugh in this day and age… And location. Hell, even getting me to slightly let air out of my nose is massively appreciated these days.
Upvotes/downvotes shouldn’t reflect how much you agree with the content. It should be a metric for whether it adds something of value to the fediverse.
Otherwise, default sort would just be an echo chamber.
That could be its own interesting question too; I imagine pragmatic case-use will differ with a significant portion of the userbase treating them as likes/dislikes.
I vote for visibility.
Is agreement and humor not a value? I, myself, put a lot of value into whoever can make me laugh in this day and age… And location. Hell, even getting me to slightly let air out of my nose is massively appreciated these days.
It was supposed to be that way on Reddit too, but everyone just treated them like like/dislike buttons instead.
I agree with your highest upvoted comment