I've seen and called out this kind of behavior out a few times on Lemmy too. 100% agree it is moldy infuriating
this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2025
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Meh, funny stuff gets upvoted for being funny. At least the comment chains can be collapsed easily.
A voting system that differentiates between funny and informative would help, but sometimes comments are both...
I tried out a couple of other Reddit replacements a few years ago before Lemmy took off, and I really enjoyed the few that had separate votes for "funny" and "insightful/contributes to discussion/whatev".
Yeah it made voting a bit clunkier, but it did a good job of differentiating between two very different ways of positively contributing to a discussion.
It also got people thinking in a different direction than "I agree with this" and "I disagree with this" as the main meaning of the vote.
At this point, I think most mainstream social media is corrupted enough by the dopamine loop that it's fairly predictable that most of the comments would be taken over by it as well. Reddit comments used to be more informative than the article a lot of the time.
I don’t see why you couldn’t vote funny and helpful at the same time
It would be possible to set up that way, just couldn't think of one off the top of my head that already allowed for picking both.
You could just do little compass of 4 points.
Funny is up, unfunny down.
Trolling left, helpful right.
Eight points so it cam be funny and helpful or funny and trolling!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crepuscular_rays
...would be my guess. It looks like the sun is fairly close to being behind the cloud in question. I'd guess that it's also not vertical.
I used to play a game with myself and try to guess the top comments on a Reddit thread. I was usually accurate…
Post about a box? Top comment is going to be about the cumbox.
Post about broken bones? Top comment is about sexual activities with mother.
Post about a toilet? Top comment is about a poop knife.
Are they bots? This reads like a parody, like someone re-enacting a Reddit post after only having heard stories about the website.
The jokes aren’t even funny…
Exactly, I thought that's what the post was criticizing before I even read the title. 9/10 of these comments are just verbatim movie lines or generic reddit comments à la "take my updoot, kind sir"
All of reddit is now r/redditsimulator
It's because people chase karma. If you post early and something witty usually you'll get hundreds of upvotes. For some people that's a better dopamine hit than almost anything.
That's not really any different than lemmy
Lemmy’s isn’t jokes as much as something the community is going to circlejerk and rage over for the millionth and a half time.
I don’t even go to the comments on some things anymore because I just know it’s going to be someone raging over something and everyone else joining in.
Who did this design crime? Barely readable.
That's what she said.
This.
Well, what is it?
As tal set above crepuscular ray
Something about like this
How old is this post??? Reddit awards havent been a thing for 2 years!
Bullshit!
was posted 2 days ago (idk if links to the post are allowed)