lambalicious

I yearn to find the lost knowledge of how to do those thingies!

Okay where is False?

There's like [checks notes] 2 more video platforms on the internet!

No reason these people can't post on those, or host their own.

Even nature is by nature left-biased, so if you lean left you are far less likely to get your facts wrong anyway.

I don't make the rules. It's other people who fail at life.

Yeah I mean it's basically a consequence that an upvote or a downvote can be for any number of reasons not shared from up- to down- or viceversa, and a simple voting system is ill-equipped to represent or contextualize that. Various solutions are viable, but my perspective is that if up+down-voting is here to stay, that part could be extended so that the act of voting could be this one bit more representative.

Another idea would be to just open it up and let people use any emoji to react.

Please no! XD We already have enough emoji as it is, not to mention they are comboable in non-portable ways or they change meaning according to the provider / renderer (GUN becoming WATER GUN is a good example).

But I do think there are valid "reaction sets" that could be interpreted with emoji, and pretty much all of them happen to match the examples you have provided:

Positive reaction / Upvote ; Negative reaction / Downvote.

Reaction of commiseration / offer of emotional support / "Hug" or w/e.

Reaction of joining in activity / offer of technical or factual support / "Let's do this".

Fun; Unfun

Reaction of surprise / "TIL" / "wow".

Factually correct ; Factually incorrect.

Reaction of "same", "this tbh", "mood" or other such neologisms

Ofc I prefer the reactions are biased towards promoting good interaction; I really don't see much use for reactions like "hostile / rude", "faggot", "kys" or stuff like that. Downvote and, depending on the case, Factually Incorrect and Unfun deal with most of that.

Because they have to be able to act upon invalid / spam / bot / brigading voting if it happens. And there is not a reasonable way to do that without knowing the voters (not necessarily the votes) that is not "disable votes for this particular subject".

One concern is whether this would be too complicated for people to understand or engage with properly.

Grandmas nowadays already spam emoji conversations happily. I wouldn't be any worried that this system looks "complicated". Did we forget that we were once children who loved to tinker with things, be they the concrete such as the bathroom lock or the abstract such as mom's rules on if we can keep a pet?

Other posts have already posted it better than I could, but my tl;dr is: one of the good things about Lemmy compared to the "competition" is that votes are public -- or at least the fact that someone voted is.

I wouldn't mind restricting access to how a user voted, in particular if in the future something like multi-choice upvotes becomes a thing, or even something I'd love to see as is dual-voting ("I downvoted because I don't like it but I upvoted it because you are absolutely right about it", this is absolutely different than not voting at all if the who is voting is being tracked).

But on a fundamental level, in the least instance admins have to be able to know who votes for our version of the system to even work compared to the competition.

Thanks for the response! It makes sense that you'd have to build stuff from scratch if you could not reasonably find something somewhere else that "fits". A good work on hosting that extra tidbit yourself, too.

As we started working on this, we realized that there wasn’t a really good resource, and that we would have to build something from scratch.

Has this impacted your decision process on how to iterate this over time? I assume at some point there will be more or different projects going around, some projects may die but their archives might still be around, who (if anyone) counts as the authoritative voice on how a given project's icon should look, etc.

Yes.

He had me in the first half, not gonna lie.

But recommending Telegram? Lol. Lmao even. And Wechat? Arent't you supposed to be within the China Firewall to use that?