I loved forums, and we didn't have anything, except for 'total posts' and 'total replies' for users. I like that.

I do like upvoting, but I think karma should be hidden. Maybe if you go to user profile and click a button to see the value. It should not show if you hover over the user in a discussion, like Reddit. This is too much incentive for Karma farming.

I don't like downvotes, and that's the reason I'm on lemmy.one - no downvotes here at all

exactly. The housing market already sucks for people to be buying a 2nd house specifically to use as AirBnB to profit

My wife and I love this show so much!! We binged the first season when we decided to watch it, and have been watching theory videos on YT after every episode of S2!

Now it's that looooong wait until S3, and hoping the writers strike doesn't affect it too much (in terms of both release date and quality)

you can, but it won't have effect on lemmy.one, because it's going to discard downvotes

please no! This is the reason I chose this instance, and downvotes is something I always hated on Reddit - and occasionally even HN

thing is... in the end, karma doesn't serve as that anyway (indicator of quality). It's so easy to karma farm by (re)posting content (sometimes even stolen) in multiple communities.

In NSFW communities, at least on Reddit, I see SO MANY posts that doesn't fit the community they were posted in, but being upvoted anyway because... well... it's nudity

I like that.

There are probably a lot of answers to your question on this thread, but let me ask YOU a question:

99% of Lemmy instances have downvotes. This instance doesn't, and doesn't even let you create communities, so you would need to browse federated content anyway (instead of local).

So... why don't you just create an account literally anywhere else?

I never cared about someone's karma. I enjoy not even knowing mine, I guess. I guess the only reason I would want karma would be for hiding users with negative karma from conversations but...

1. Since I'm all in for not having downvotes, this is a moot point
2. Probably neonazis don't have negative karma because some people would still downvote them. So hiding users with negative karma would not help much

-1 in terms of a comment score? If you can't downvote, yes, the score is never going to be negative.

That's the beauty of federation: you can choose any of the 90% (or higher) of Lemmy instances that allow downvoting, instead of one of the few that doesn't :)

My wife got the EPOMAKER TH80 pro and is happy with it! https://epomaker.com/products/epomaker-th80?variant=40057578651721

+1 to a megathread. Just noticed I didn't receive any notification for replies on this post here

sort by new in your subscribed communities (or even one specific community). Why would you browse ALL communities?

Also, what does ALL mean in this context? All communities in lemmy.one? All federated?

I have Kailh silent browns and silent pinks and like them. Been using the pinks since I got them because they are very light. My wife uses the Epomaker Flamingo Switch that came with her keyboard - also linear, light and kinda silent

I recently had the experience where I was looking for a squid farm design in Minecraft. A Youtube video

you would never know if the downvotes are because of video quality, someone not liking the narrator's voice (or the content creator itself). As someone else mentioned, an actual comment saying it doesn't work on a version is way clearer

it’s also mostly (but not always) correlated with the quality and/or accuracy of the post

it hasn't been my experience in quite a few communities. People will downvote things they don't wanna hear, even if it's the truth, or just an opinion.

I think maybe most users there don't care? Like... maybe most users there use desktop or the official reddit app. Your post being deleted was probably because it wasn't related to books itself, and the mods there decided that they just wanna keep the community going

Maybe they don't need to care, if they use desktop/official app.

I dig Perry Rhodan. Read the first cycle of the original series: The Third Power (vols 1 - 49). The NEO series - a reboot - is being published in english by J Novel Club and, while it has a manga-style cover art, it is not Japanese content. It's a german pulp series.

A few general recommendations:

Nonfiction:

• The End of Everything, Katie Mack
• The Anthropocene Reviewed, John Green
• Jenny Lawson's books - Broken, Let's Pretend This Never Happened
• What If?, Randall Munroe

Fiction:

• Later, Stephen King - it's a short Stephen King book. I prefer The Institute, but it's longer
• The Dresden Files series, Jim Butcher - action, mystery, urban fantasy
• Black Water Sister, Zen Cho (YA fantasy set in Malaysia)
• The Dragon Lords trilogy, Jon Hollins - medieval fantasy with comedy and a few twists
• The Color of Magic, Terry Pratchet - Discworld is a great fantasy series with humour