Comment on A deep dive into the rss feed reader landscape

• gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I don’t know if it’s Lemmy not standing different opinions than: A) some opinions don’t add much value to any conversation except to say “I disagree” and that’s both not super helpful and in a small community I’d argue it’s healthy for positive engagement to be more prevalent than negative engagement. B) some comments disagree or tear down a solution without offering up a good alternative - which leaves the people with solutions feeling worse for their solution, the problem unaddressed in a different way, and if someone likes their solution or even knows it’s superior to alternatives it becomes very easy to down vote a subjectively wrong opinion.

  In this instance “going to the website” is not a helpful alternative for a tool who’s purpose is to aggregate many desired websites into one location only when they have new content. “Going to the website” would be less efficient both in time and effort. This person saying they don’t get them, while being on Lemmy - a site aggregator - is to me very funny.

  My instinct was to down vote because it was already down voted and for the reasons above, but your comment gave me pause so now I won’t down vote but I also won’t upvote because it’s not content I think anyone should waste their time reading.

  Should there be a neutral response on site aggregators for this very circumstance? Never thought about that before.

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  • JessyKenning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    My instinct was to down vote because it was already down voted

    seriously?

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    • gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I think that’s a very common and logical instinct/bias. I’m fairly confident you and everyone else does this as well. If someone told you two compare two drinks and that one was expensive, the expensive one gets a statistical boon. If someone says this book sucks and the author is an asshole, you’re primed to take previously neutral statements and skew them towards a negative understanding.

      I always read before voting but ya, we have bias my guy and talking about them is good.

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