So if I'm born male and identify non-binary, that would be considered trans as well? If I got that right my definition of trans was apparantly too binary. :D
Thanks for the explanation. Maybe my example was too extreme but unless they remove everything that's even slightly controversial, that can give a pretty wrong impression IMO. Wouldn't be for me at least.
If you consider upvotes but ignore downvotes wouldn't that give you quite a weird picture in case of controversial posts? Assuming there's a racist or transphobic post with 100 downvotes and 5 upvotes, would that be displayed as +5? Or does it not show any votes at all?
I use Lemmy a lot to debate or read other people's perspectives. While content is more important than the vote count, I'm still interested to see what are (un)popular opinions here (knowing that it definitely doesn't represent the general public!).
Unfortunately, seeing the votes immediately also increases your bias towards posts or comments, so it may have a negative impact on on your individual free thinking.
An ideal compromise for me would be to see how other people voted, but only after I voted myself.
In Germany we're having an election this month and I unfortunately don't feel much of that spirit. The far right populists are more or less at an all time high and the conservatives are the strongest party in the race.
After all they did in just the first weeks, I highly doubt that there'll be just another fair following the regular rules. I really hope I'm wrong though.
I do it a lot to find new interesting content and communities. I just block all communities that I don't want to see in my feed. It's not too much TBH. Maybe one new community per month or so.
So if I'm born male and identify non-binary, that would be considered trans as well? If I got that right my definition of trans was apparantly too binary. :D