MindfulMaverickAre votes actually ruining niche communities?
https://piefed.zip/c/asklemmy/p/1165527/are-votes-actually-ruining-niche-communities
I don’t think any form of rework on voting system would work; everyone has their own criteria, and it won’t always make sense to everyone. Preventing upvotes/downvotes would just be a hindrance, and it also opens up a way to manipulate votes to however mods want.
One solution would be to have a community dedicated to discussions so that they have a chance to appear at the top.
More communities in a platform saturated with abandoned communities seems like the worse possible idea.
True, but I think that’s the best you can get. Lemmy itself isn’t very thriving compared to Reddit in the first place. It would have been a lot better if multiple communities could share a post cross-instance, but we don’t have that.
Come to think of it, does Lemmy support flares? I think having a flare for niche stuff would help a lot in terms of discoverability without splitting the community.