Not usually tbh, the top comment usually represents the majority opinion which i tend to disagree with

I see waaaay too many doomer/surrender-in-advance type comments around here at the top.

I used to default to relying on the top comments, but especially with platforms like Reddit having shills and other types of conversation dominating trolls, I try to scroll through the comments. It’s a lot easier to do on Lemmy.

nevar.

Quite often, actually. It’s pretty comfy in here!

Probably about 2/3rds of the time I most agree with the top comment.

For the record, this post was not one of those times

Mixed bag. Depends on the instance and even then it’s a post by post in the different communities.

Depends on the community. Some it’s quite often, and others it’s not. I do like to hear variety in people’s thinking

I’m not sure but I will say it’s nice how often the top comments are pretty reasonable on here.

Many times the top upvoted comment is just one of, if not the first comment.

So i sort comments by hot / rising

Probably at least 10-15% of the time.

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.