"Decaffeinated" does not necessarily mean "caffeine free," but the amount of caffeine should be significantly reduced to the point of being pointless... Unless you happen to drink a lot of it.
I think most of the answers are a lot more helpful, but somebody had to "well actually..." it.
That's true, I noticed on a couple subreddits that votes don't matter unless you're mildly popular, and it's even possible to get comments throttled for being unpopular enough. Downvotes don't do much besides pushing your comments off the screen for the most part.
I think it's the gamification. Mastodon degamifies Twitter in a way Lemmy can't really do with the classic Reddit system.
Votes go up, votes go down, you can see people winning and losing here. It's fun, even if it's in a bad way.
Mastodon having a way bigger algorithm curve before you start seeing interesting stuff remains throughout.
But respectfully.
I must be in the wrong place because I haven't seen one of those for a while. I knew about that flavor, but I haven't seen it around for a while. Even Amazon lists them as Canadian imports with marked up prices
There's a new one?
I think they're both gone now
I too suffer from always being the most correct person in every thread I visit 😮💨
Mentioning downvotes. Or upvotes. The first rule of vote club is...
As far as I can tell, it was basically intended as a cryptocurrency pushing network from the beginning. Here's some marketing babble right from their site:
Integrated with lightning [cryptocurrency], Nostr enables new value-for-value business models that have the potential to be more fair.
More PR speak about zaps (cryptocurrency exchanges), wallets, etc are all accessible from the official website.
This is why I use Signal with the small chats and groups I'm in.