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[–]slushpilot[S] 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

This is an interesting take, I wanted to post it here since SaidIt famously doesn't have up/down buttons maybe for this reason.

It's very true how having a "like-only" model (e.g. Twitter/FB) distorts actual opinion, and hence people's perception of reality. Twitter even has an unofficial proxy for it with "the ratio".