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[-] psud@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago

https://old.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/16ovuaz/wibta_if_i_gave_my_wife_my_used_airpods_for_her/?sort=controversial

Genderswap reposts were common and generally got a little traction before being reported and deleted, so it's plausible that it's a real story

Not that I rank AITA as a font of true drama

[-] StrongHorseWeakNeigh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I'm not saying it's impossible or even that unlikely that this greentext is true but it's equally true that this person could have fabricated this story to push a narrative about reddit on 4chan for some meager amount of acknowledgement and renown.

[-] rain_worl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

controversial sort!
plus old reddit :)

[-] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Controversial is best sort for drama :)

[-] rain_worl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

also, a tip: lemmy actually lets you remove the upvote from your own stuff. it counts, unlike reddit, where your own vote doesn't count, just no votes makes it display 1

[-] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

The problem is that the default configuration has you automatically liking your own stuff, so setting it to not do so makes it look like you were downvoted

[-] rain_worl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

doesn't it show the vote counts individually? maybe reddit brains subconsciously interpret seeing 0 in the context of voting being "this guy got downvoted"

[-] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't know, I use boost and hardly ever use a PC or web interface for Lemmy, and I haven't noticed

In my UI (boost default except for fonts and colours) all I see is total votes for comments ~~, and I can click to see up/down counts on posts~~ *turns out I can't see up and down counts at all in boost

[-] rain_worl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

i saw you edit when i upvoted you

[-] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I just logged in on Connect for Lemmy and that is the one that shows up and down votes :) I think I had to turn that function on

So it's pretty random whether someone sees just the sum

Also aussie.zone doesn't always seem to fully synchronise with all the instances I visit, sometimes scores don't load, sometimes votes from some instances don't show so I often see everything with apparently zero votes

*Just twiddled the settings, comment score split is only shown in Connect if you turn on comment debug information, so I presume everyone on Connect is only seeing the sum

this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2024
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