And let everyone sort posts by emoji count.
NOSTR does this too
Upvoted for being unpopular because damn that’s some unpopular shit
Upvoted as unpopular.
I hate 99% of the emoji usage but the idea has some merits. I feel like the sort of “anonymous reaction” that we give in Lemmy should be a bit more fine-grained than just up/downvotes.
Anybody else remember Slashdot? I always liked its moderation (and metamoderation!) system, where you could rate things +1 “interesting,” “insightful,” “informative,” “funny,” “underrated,” or -1 “overrated,” “troll,” “offtopic,” or “flamebait” (I think that was all of them…).
I, for one, remember our former Slashdot overlords :^)
To-the-point: I think that Slashdot got the right idea. We vote on things for multiple reasons, not just to make them more/less visible; it’s a form of communication.
Nobody wants a visual cacophony of zoomer hieroglyphics on every post, so yes congratulations on the unpopular opinion .
visual cacophony of zoomer hieroglyphics
This made me literally laugh out loud, wow
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Upvoted for being unpopular. I already block people who use emojis here anyway
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tf is misskey?
googles
server list
4th column instance has free speech and cunny in the same sentence
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nah lets not take influence from them
Wtf are you talking about?
Edit: I could not verify what this guy claimed at all. It’s mostly Japanese user instances and that’s about it.
I filtered by english instances, that’s where the weird stuff emerged
I’m actually surprised to see comments saying this is unpopular. I actually thought it sounded refreshing.
When I switched from Reddit to Lemmy, I stopped sorting everything by Top. I got tired of seeing the highest voted posts and comments in my feed and wanted to see a variety of things instead.
Now, the top of my feed is not necessarily the highest voted or most popular opinion, and I can enjoy a variety of comments under posts without just reading what the community most agrees with at the top of a feed.
Finding a different and unique way to sort posts and comments would be interesting, in my opinion. For instance, if I want to see funny or sarcastic remarks instead of serious ones, I could just sort by laugh reacts.
But… I understand how much work it would be to change an entire community over to that standard, and I realize it’s not really reasonable. So I get the unpopular opinion. I just think it would be fun to see.
So like Facebook?
I would say solely doing this would be unpopular and I wouldn’t be for it.
I could see it working. Properties:
Assign each emoji an up/downvote and keep the current system. Hitting an emoji also does one of these.
Have a separate bar for emojis that is collapsed by default
Make emojis optional so you can still up/downvote
Downvotes are why I’m here!
Social media without downvotes are just propaganda mills, reinforcing bad behavior.
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Then we can make a lemmy client that spews the emoji reacts as bubbles over the screen everytime you load a post
