I haven’t observed that on Lemmy or Mastodon.

What do you use instead?

Unfortunately, I haven’t observed that. There seem to be many people on Lemmy who go out of their way to be antagonistic to other Lemmy users. Which includes downvote brigading, as the OP said.

What would you use instead?

Ventoy > Rufus and also bypasses them by default.

Forums are still around. People just got lazy and started using reddit instead. Search engines are also to blame since they don’t bring up smaller forums in search results. People can go back to forums if they want.

What do you use instead?

I’m grateful that Stackoverflow is a valid alternative to reddit for many things. Fuck reddit.

I don’t understand why you and others are so mad about this. Stackoverflow is a great resource that takes significant time and money to maintain. I don’t have a problem with the maintainers making money by selling access to train AI on the data.

Having Stackoverflow as an alternative to reddit is important so that people aren’t stuck using reddit.

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