Feels like there’s a whole more downvoting on Lemmy instances then reddit itself. Anyone else feel like that?

If You don’t agree; please downvote my comment/post. 😁

Thanks!

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
    20·
    10 months ago

    I looked into it, I knew that raw numbers there are more downvotes on Reddit due to sheer volume, but I was surprised by the ratios too.

    Back in the days I used Reddit, somewhere I’d heard that an 8:1 up to down ratio was the average for the longest time (~89% upvoted). So that was kind of my baseline when looking at this question. However, I wanted to do some !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world research out of curiousity so I dug into your query.

    Enjoy these data tables:

    Comparison of 10 Top Day Posts on reddit versus lemmy world set on All scope:
    reddit.com lemmy.world All
    Top Day Score Up Down Ratio Up Down Ratio
    1 41777 43976 2199 95% 984 30 97%
    2 39541 42065 2524 94% 836 11 99%
    3 37370 42466 5096 88% 807 6 99%
    4 34465 38725 4260 89% 807 7 99%
    5 33924 34973 1049 97% 799 26 97%
    6 32029 34440 2411 93% 741 4 99%
    7 29537 32105 2568 92% 710 5 99%
    8 29332 34107 4775 86% 696 7 99%
    9 27940 29411 1471 95% 671 6 99%
    10 27606 30336 2730 91% 627 8 99%
    Total 333521 362603 29082 93% 7678 110 99%
    Comparison of 10 Popular(Hot) posts on reddit versus Active posts on lemmy world set on All scope:
    reddit.com lemmy.world All
    Popular(Hot)/Active Score Up Down Ratio Up Down Ratio
    1 3931 4417 486 89% 803 26 97%
    2 1296 1507 211 86% 627 7 99%
    3 13939 14520 581 96% 751 4 99%
    4 19790 21053 1263 94% 310 12 96%
    5 20326 20955 629 97% 992 30 97%
    6 17586 20689 3103 85% 279 3 99%
    7 9171 9455 284 97% 814 7 99%
    8 27940 29411 1471 95% 302 3 99%
    9 591 768 177 77% 247 2 99%
    10 9767 11357 1590 86% 292 7 98%
    Total 124337 134131 9794 93% 5417 101 98%
    Comparison of 10 Rising posts on reddit versus Hot posts on lemmy world set on All scope:
    reddit.com lemmy.world All
    Rising/Hot Score Up Down Ratio Up Down Ratio
    1 80 116 36 69% 53 1 98%
    2 112 117 5 96% 35 0 100%
    3 153 155 2 99% 52 2 96%
    4 97 120 23 81% 17 0 100%
    5 552 581 29 95% 28 0 100%
    6 58 58 0 100% 26 1 96%
    7 295 301 6 98% 33 0 100%
    8 93 95 2 98% 173 0 100%
    9 78 79 1 99% 14 0 100%
    10 204 213 9 96% 17 0 100%
    Total 1722 1833 111 94% 448 4 99%

    So there you have it for posts, way more downvotes on Reddit than Lemmy. I chalk it up to some instances not having downvotes, and people don’t really care to downvote posts besides clickbait, spam, controversial topics, flamebait and stuff.

    I know Lemmings like to downvote comments here and there but it’s harder to get a real comparison because I don’t know how to get comment upvote/downvote ratios from Reddit whereas old Reddit still has upvote ratios for posts.

    Obviously from server to server things will be different (and 100% upvotes on servers that disables downvotes!) and also if you narrow your scope. But the trend is obviously there.

    Link to image if your app makes the Markdown table look weird

    E: Fixed methodology (because Reddit only showed me Score and %Upvoted)