It seems Lemmy is as much of an echo chamber as anywhere else. Even when I agree with the hive I like to read differing viewpoints, but there’s no easy way to sort through them here. We can’t be well-rounded when all we see are the same opinions endlessly reinforced in discussions.
I don’t know the history of Reddit’s voting system, but I think controversial was a way to show posts/comments that were “unpopular” after they removed the display of both upvotes and downvotes and replaced it with percentage.
So here they could just add a sort by most downvotes, since they are displayed separately. I guess another option for sorting by most-equal upvotes vs. downvotes would be fine too, just not as simple for what would often be the same effect. Maybe sorting by most downvotes would even be preferable depending on what you’re looking for.
In other words, add a “Bottom” sort option as the simple opposite to “Top.” ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Better would upvote:downvote ratio. Sort by closest to 1.
But also most downvoted too would be good filter
That’s kind of the inverse of “confidence”, which is a requested feature for comment sort.
That’s what I was trying to say with “most-equal upvotes vs. downvotes”, but apparently my brain is mush and the word “ratio” wasn’t available.
I’m trying to downvote less here on opinions I disagree with, so I guess it would complicate this sorting idea if everyone tried to be nicer…
I’m not after everything contrarian, but Im certain many relevant details are missed when threads are top-loaded with bias.