I wish we could see up/downvotes like in the past. I think reddit may be artificially boosting some posts into the front page. You can see in the screenshot it has very little upvotes (or older) compared to the other top 4 posts.
I have no evidence other than noticing right after the election, /r/conservative seems to be hitting the front page every day. But I remember before the election, it only hit the front page once in a blue moon or so. Is this just me? Am I the only one noticing this?
6k comments, flaired users only? Sus.
i don’t miss those +1k comment threads, scrolling them gets annoying, also, i recused from commenting if there was already +150, otherwise was like talking to the void
Its interesting that on lemmy almost everyone gets some kind of upvote/downvote (interaction) whereas on reddit and other sites, you either get viral success or…nothing. No upvotes/downvotes no interactions. My theory is the algorithm + number of people de-humanizes the act of communication in such large communities.
i used to sort by r/new for years, i learned what mods liked to take down, so i didn’t waste time on those post, then make some funny/attempt-to-clever comment and watched raise to the front page as top comment, it was like playing a video game for me
OMG I did the same thing too… but the funny/sad thing was that I started doing those “typical reddit” comments that weren’t really insightful but got lots of upvotes. Then when I came here to Lemmy I had to stop myself from making those kinds of comments.
Thank you, seriously. Those reddit “jokes” on every single thread, four deep of the same old shit, made he crazy. And they’re the top replies to the top comments. It’s so much better here.
I enjoyed the void, commenting into the void was my favorite pastime til I did it on an alt and got autopermbanned, some thread with thousands of comments and it instabanned all my alts and main account
It really helped the adhd, helped the anxiety knowing no one would probably see it or reply
you used it just to reply to yourself like you’re doing here? you can do that with messaging apps, unless you got a thrill from someone may be watching
It made me feel better that I was screaming into a void, no one would see it or reply, no pressure, I still wanted to say stuff, reminded me of twitter before I had hella ppl ik irl follow me, ruined it
Hey, unironically you should try one of those private social networks where it’s all just AI bots and you’re the only human. I mean, I hope you stay here too but it might help you to have a place where you can say things without human judgment but you still get some kind of feedback.
The flaired thing always made me laugh. Biggest babies out there. Just think of that Kyle kid crying in court
Lmao dude have you ever actually looked at the restrictions on the vast majority of the popular posts on /r/conservative? It’s honestly comical. They’re super locked down.
Reeks of LLM spam
It always annoyed me when a post reached the front page and they limited who was allowed to comment on it. I usually didn’t even know what sub I was in until after I typed my comment and clicked submit. Followed by auto mod deleting my post.
I forgot how much I hated that about Reddit. Good riddance.
I don’t notice anything on Reddit because I never go there anymore. I swear some of y’all treating Reddit like that ex you never shut up about and keep stalking every five minutes to check if their life turned out better than yours.
Edit: My bad guys. Didn’t pay attention to what community this post was in.
Not saying your wrong lol. But this is the /c/reddit community. We are not going to go and post on reddit about this (well not anymore). And my local community is not going to remove themselves on reddit unless something pretty horrific happens. I like fediverse more (so im supporting that).
Does it also count if you don’t stalk your ex yourself but do stalk a community dedicated to stalking that exact same ex?
I like to hear the shit that goes down there (and other sites) for multiple reasons.
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so i can discuss these ongoing enshitification with friends i know still frequent it and are not on the fediverse.
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to archive/understand/study the dynamics of enshitificication/collapse/fascist momentum so i may learn how to defend against those and if successful educate others.
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to deliver dopamine to my brain by feeding the inbuild superiority complex within my human mind. Most of us enjoy seeing our choices redeemed. Shallow and primitive yes but so is arguable 90% of social media.
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Im forced to use it whenever I google anything on anything lol, I hope to never use it again tho
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You’re better than this conspiracy crap.
They populate the front page based on views, not votes. People (like you for instance, and possibly now several people reading this thread) are increasingly visiting r/conservative right now.
edit I guess it’s more correct to say that they populate the front page by various inputs, not just votes. It might be views, comments (like depedencyinjection there suggests), plus all kinds of other inputs to the algo like your own account behavior or your location and behavior of other accounts nearby and who knows.
And numbers of comments I guess. Look at how many comments it has. Plus the Jurassic Park one above has less upvotes and less comments and is on the front page.
Reaction bait
Fwiw, if you use old reddit, posts have an upvote percentage (not counting any vote fuzzing). To calculate number of downvotes:
NetScore / upvote% - NetScore.
Unfortunately reddit has fuzzed their up/downvotes for many years now. So every reload is going to get different numbers.
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this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2025 9,822 points (83% upvoted)
This is what the percentage is for this post. Posting this in case anyone is curious as to the percentage in agreement. Reddit groups that have a “flair” policy do not stop you from up or down voting a post.
Then it is approx 11384 upvotes, 2012 downvotes.
yes that’s how I would calculate it
NTA
It’s not conspiracy.
This is what happens when you make your website amenable to conservatives. That sub has grown more popular through the years and it’s thanks to its satellites like KiA and others that organized and spread conservative messaging.
And right now they’re taking victory laps so of course it’s got a lot of activity
Reason i went to Redit Sync because you could bloke subs and individuals or even key words. Life was more enjoyable when you could block the Leonard or conservatives.
I do the same on mastodon. I want pictures of puppys not hearing about whatever dump/elmo are pooping on next.
I’m pretty sure the reddit algorithm tailors itself to your behavior. If you go to or click on a post from a certain sub, it’ll increase how often it shows up in your feed. Downvote and it’ll decrease how often it shows up. Also, it pushes posts that have a high upvote count compared to baseline for that sub instead of purely on upvote count.
I miss when algorithms weren’t a part of everything we see.
That’s why I’m here and not there now though. One of the many reasons.
Definitely noticed this, commenting to argue got me banned off some subs that assume commenters are conservative, reddit is slowly on its way out
I mean, there would be times where I would see posts on /r/popular with like 5-10 upvotes.
Reddit is all kinds of messed up.
The flat earthers have taken over!
