I haven’t really posted a lot to r/selfhosted (or Reddit in general), but whenever I did, there was always someone who voted my post down in less than 30 minutes after it was posted. Maybe because of this (or maybe because they were actually perceived as low quality posts), these posts never received a lot of engagement with their 0 scores.

Today I’ve made a little experiment and posted the same article both here and to r/selfhosted. On Lemmy, it received a few comments and some upvotes, but over at Reddit, it was promptly downvoted to oblivion.

I’ve never really used “New” on Reddit, but I’ve decided to take a look at it, and to my surprise it looked like r/selfhosted’s New page was full of genuinely helpful posts, but I’ve never got to see them as their scores were all zeroes.

What gives?

  • Tiritibambix@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Unfortunately, I erased all my content on Reddit, but I asked this same question a year back on /r/selfhosted. It was hugely upvoted, revealing that I wasn’t alone wondering why.

    Tldr: the community is toxic to newcomers and people learning. There is a veteran circlejerk only feeding on very advanced discussions and novelties. There is very little room for curious, anthousiasts and people stuck in the anomalous state of knowledge. I wrote a post precisely about this a few days ago.

    Anyway, I find this community, and Lemmy in general, a lot more friendly and rewarding to be a part of. I really hope it will stay this way.

    • belidzs@fost.huOPEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Interesting. I suspected the same would happen to my post if I posted this question there.

      • vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I have to agree with the second reply there though (and will definitely downvote these kind of posts):

        It sometimes feels like if you take any day in a vacuum and look at the posts, it’s: 75% things that’ve either been answered 300 times already or are Googleable; 15% troubleshooting that would probably be better asked towards that software’s community; 5% “hey there’s an update!” spam (4% of that being from the 300 different no code internal apps builders); and MAYBE 5% original content, questions, or good discussions.

        • AdminWorker@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Well I think there should be a /c/selfhostingnoobedition where an answer (even if it is just a “Google search link”) is expected. The amount of plausible sounding BS from googleing and getting stack overflow copies with unhelpful info or thinly veiled ads that has cost me time and money is huge, and I simply get directed to buy products while I am exploring (I don’t know what I don’t know), so I have gone here as my “Google”. I normally try to include my due diligence in a paragraph labelled “source:”

  • Dr. Jenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tubeEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    IIRC, reddit uses vote fuzzing. I think it’s an attempt to mildly curtail the effect of bots, vote manipulation, and bandwagon effects.

    In other words, don’t put too much thought into the votes on reddit. Or reddit in general, fuck reddit.

  • PhoenxBlue@lemmy.caEnglish
    01·
    1 year ago

    Why are you here asking about reddit?

    Isn’t this something you could have asked ON reddit? And why does it matter all of a sudden?

    You’re probably the person that dredged up every bad thing a person has done in the past…

  • SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeoEnglish
    01·
    1 year ago

    This happened on every sub I’ve posted on including when I posted a pic of my dog to r/awww. It’s either a bot or a really miserable person. Possibly a bot made by a very miserable person.