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No Stupid Questions

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No such thing. Ask away!

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All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.



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Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.



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I am theoretically switching over from Reddit to Lemmy. Finding myself spending more time on Lemmy than on Reddit. Maybe it's because I am limited to using the desktop and can't aimlessly browse Reddit on my iPhone. Of late, the only subreddits I cared for were on sports and their matchday threads and r/watches. I found myself aimlessly browsing through r/AskReddit and asking and answering pointless questions.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Deleted my account there and moved here. But I hope all pathological downvoters will stay there...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

all pathological downvoters will stay there

The pathological downvoters ran from Reddit first. They missed fresh blood.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sadly those were probably botnets. If you pick on a subject, and there’s certain keywords there…boom brigaded in 30 seconds.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow didn't know about this... It' be cool if Lemmy used a reaction-based rather than vote-based system...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I have to disagree. It has its problems but the upvote and downvote system can be really useful when you're talking about things that aren't subjective. For technical and practical matters, it's a good way to sort the most comprehensive or relevant advice to the top of the discussion. I don't really want to go back to facebook where I get shown things because people are spamming the angry react.