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• @FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2026-04-03 22:22

  It's close-ish. Forum posts are all in date order, if you reply to someone you do it by quoting them and adding your comment to the post. This ensures that everyone is having the same conversation and you're reading everyone's comments. In Lemmy/Reddit there will be all kinds of side conversations because you can reply to an individual comment and that makes it's own chain. This makes it difficult to read everyone's comments. The big thing is that there's no karma system on forums, so you can't be upvoted to the top or downvoted out of the conversation. Moderators may remove/edit offensive comments but otherwise everyone's opinions are treated equally. A big issue with the karma system is that in a big enough conversation, minority opinions are suppressed with downvotes and the most outrageous/clickbaity comments rise to the top. This really skews the overall conversation, people are incentivized to not deviate from the popular opinion lest they be voted out of the conversation and rewarded for making attention-seeking comments. It is a reward system that promotes anti-social behaviors (ironically).

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