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[–] 14 points 1 year ago*

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.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

    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...

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [+] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Who did this design crime? Barely readable.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    I've seen and called out this kind of behavior out a few times on Lemmy too. 100% agree it is moldy infuriating

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's not really any different than lemmy

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  • 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    How old is this post??? Reddit awards havent been a thing for 2 years!

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