Answer questions if I can
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This + I like to just give people answers. I find too often online somebody will ask a question and a lot of users will often try to be helpful but fail because they didn't actually answer it.
Dumb example Q: "What's the best Indian food in this city?" A: "There's not a whole lot of Indian food but you might have luck with a burgeoning southeast Asian store"
Downvoted unkind discourse.
Upvote is for quality. No vote is for noise/disagreements. Downvote is for hate.
In theory, the lower a score, the less people see something. If I disagree with something that's said (like a civil political opinion), then I won't 'like' it. That takes away one potential point. But if someone is being unkind to others (mean, rude, trolling, etc) then I'll downvote, which I see as removing two votes. The one they could have had from me, and one from someone else. Hopefully, that means they won't get as much attention.
If it's really bad, then I'll also report
Upvote is for quality. No vote is for noise/disagreements. Downvote is for hate.
Yep. This, I think, "is the way". The downvote for disagreement is not a good pattern and probably never was IMO. This is a good way of putting it. Another way someone else put it was essentially that the downvote is about the way in which something is said and the upvote is about whether you agree with it.
I honestly think separating them out in some way, so that we can still use the downvote as an effective tool of aggregating the quality of a post, but not in a way that is simply there to offset upvotes. Like, maybe two "scores", number of upvotes and number of down votes with different filters for each? In a way, the "controversial" sort achieves something like this.
If i have something bad to say, i don't.
- Report spam, scam, racism, hostility and clickbait
- Don't engage trolls
- Don't answer questions I'm not sure I have the correct answer for (or else point out that I'm just giving a "best guess" response)
- Try to be neutral or positive/affirming in replies. If I can't, I'd rather not reply at all.
One thing I've started doing more than ever is blocking a ton of people. For example if I see someone making a post about twitter/elon/trump etc. I go to their profile and see if it's just one time occurance or a patter and in the latter case I block them. If I see someone posting fuck this and fuck that and I hope this person dies etc. I block them without even viewing their post history.
There's just so many users on a platform like this that I simply can't pay attention to everything so by blocking the people commenting in bad faith is the least I can do. Some might say I'm creating an echo chamber and maybe so but this really isn't about wether I agree with them or not but wether your comments bring any value to the conversations.
Over the long term this really does help keep your browsing experience enjoyable and your mind optimistic. Its way to common to get depressed from constantly seeing a torrent of bad news and negative posting.
Log off occasionally.
When I see people going through something that resonates with me I acknowledge that its hard and encourage them to keep trying and that they will make it to the otherside.
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Curate my feeds so I mostly donβt see negatuve content (doomers, cynics, trolls, etc)
I do this, and employ frequent and rapid blocking on social media.
Instead of engaging, dick wads get blocked without comment.
Not feeding trolls.
I try to contribute to OSS, host my own services, seed (legal) torrents.
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Radical optimism. Hell yeah! Basically anti-doomerism.
Commenting to creators with specific things that I like about their work
I write a lot of comments that I feel add important information and context, I add links to save other people clicks, and I back down on the odd occasion I make a mistake.
Use a non-chromium browser son that web environment integrity doesn't work. (Librewolf)
Block freely and block often.
I comment jokes everywhere in order to make people laugh, or at least smile. Or at least least slightly blow air out of their nose.
don't be an asshole.
works for corporations, individuals, and everything in between.
Acknowledge when other people have been particularly nice, helpful, funny or interesting. Support those who make mistakes and hold their hands up, and apologise myself when Iβm in the wrong.
Post photos of beans
Moderate the OnlineFavors subreddit.
Dns ad blocker and I don't use big tech sites almost at all.
Once in a while i dont respond to stupid comments....
Remove anonymity.
Iβm not advocating for that. The internet would be a boring dystopia, but it sure as shit would be nicer if every statement could be tied back to a real person.
Heads up: you probably misread the question. It's not "What would you do" but "What do you do"
Ah yes I did. Thank you. I will delete.
Would it? Facebook is a cesspool.
I doubt even a third of facebooks profiles can be easily traced to a real person. Be that as it may, I answered the wrong question so itβs a bit of a moot point.
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Probably nothing since I have no free time π
Provide detailed help troubleshooting people's tech problems.
My response might become helpful to many people in the future, even if it doesn't help the person who originally asked the question.
Stop feeding off what is given to you and look for and search for quality, informative, objective content that is not manipulated to play with you emotions.
The internet is many things other than just a place to waste away your time, energy and awareness of the world.
Don't participate or be involved in the most popular online communities. I find once an online community reaches a threshold it goes to shit. Finding your niche people online is the best way to finding a nice place you belong.
-Improve moderation of major social sites with more penalties for harassment. I feel like the lack of proper moderation has encouraged people to be needlessly mean over petty nonsense and sometimes even ruin lives.
-Add more privacy protections
-Force websites that allow both minors and 18+ content to have NSFW filters in place by default for anyone under 18 (looking at you Twitter)
-Getting rid of intrusive ads
-Have websites show posts in order, unless it's something like Lemmy or Reddit where the other options at least make sense
-Websites should be given legal repercussions in knowingly spreading dangerous conspiracies (such as Facebook doing nothing about posts encouraging violence against a minority group in Myanmar eventually leading to genocide)
- force privacy from companies
- block most logging from vpn's
- remove communist safehavens
- force Roblox to remove stichface
- make terms and conditions and privacy policies 4 pages maximum
- disband all databrokers
- burn drug selling tor sites
- bring back vine
- google chrome slowed down by 60%
- destroy terrorist safehavens
- thread's blocked from fediverse
- decentralized networks like the fediverse and xmpp become popularized
- tab groups in every browser that minimum 6 People use
- downloading music becomes simple
- no pop up ads
- Facebook users DENCRASE by 18% .