• alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgM
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    1 year ago

    Maybe take away the ability to upvote a link post and reserve that for the actual discussion parts that take place?

    this would probably cause its own problems as a design choice, but it’s also not even possible with Lemmy without changing the underlying code (which is a whole ordeal) so that’s not really on the table.

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      1 year ago

      It’d be pretty trivial to hide upvotes on list pages and show a reply count instead. That doesn’t seem like it would be a difficult feature for almost anyone to contribute to Lemmy and it would certainly change the incentives.

      Also, it’d make it impossible to upvote from the list page which would be a good thing in my opinion.