When are you meant to use them then?
Comment on Is the threadiverse abusing Likes and Dislikes?
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You express your like or dislike regarding the sentiment expressed by the post, not the thing(s) mentioned in the post.
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 3 weeks 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.
silverpill@mitra.social 3 weeks 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
ocasta@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks 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.
julian@activitypub.space 2 weeks ago
Hmmmm, I suppose, but Facebook never had a Dislike, they added emoji reactions, technically, no?