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Comment on Is the threadiverse abusing Likes and Dislikes?

As an example, imagine a post with a title like “AI is awful” (I’m sure many here has seen posts like that). A Friendica user could reasonably agree with the post and thus “Dislike” it. As in, they also find AI awful and they dislike AI, so they dislike the post, to show their disapproval of AI.

I don’t believe dislikes are meant to function like that on any platform.

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ocasta@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
A better example for what they’re talking about might be something like a news story about something terrible. According to one paradigm, you would upvote the post for visibility. According to another paradigm (the Facebook/Friendica paradigm), you would dislike the post to express your disapproval of what’s happening.

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- julian@activitypub.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
  Hmmmm, I suppose, but Facebook never had a Dislike, they added emoji reactions, technically, no?
  
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SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
When are you meant to use them then?

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- AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  You express your like or dislike regarding the sentiment expressed by the post, not the thing(s) mentioned in the post.
  
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  - SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    That’s fine but does that action always correspond to wanting to upvote or downvote the post? I guess maybe? Lemmy at least assumes so.
    
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    silverpill@mitra.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    @SorteKanin My server translates Lemmy upvotes into likes and downvotes into dislikes. That blends quite well in the UI with Mastodon's "favorites" and Pleroma/Misskey emoji reactions, so I think Lemmy's assumptions are correct
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