I’ve found slashdot, over the last 2 decades, has devolved into climate change denying, capitalist fellating, wildly off topic flame wars in the comments. As a news aggregator, I’ve never seen an article hit slashdot before it hits reddit or lemmy.
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Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My migration was primarily driven by threading, voting, and ads.
- forums (community topics) >
- slashdot (community topics + threads) >
- digg / reddit (community topics + threads + voting) >
- Lemmy (community topics + threads + voting - ads)
celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I wish we had the same sort of votes slashdot had. up/down votes are so limited :(
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I should’ve clarified.
It had post voting, but no comment voting.
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db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Doesn’t your screenshot show the opposite?
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Maybe I’m missing something, but I thought you could only upvote / downvote posts. Comments were just a thread, and whoever commented first was at the top.
Hence why a lot of our early shitposting was just commenting “first” as soon as an interesting post when live.