The app showed me a skyscraper and now I feel inadequate.

It’s also an easy way to show new users one basic front-facing feature on Lemmy that is different from Reddit - which is a good idea on its own, but especially because Reddit used to display upvotes/downvotes this way and then removed it entirely, probably for manipulative reasons.

It’s good to be able to customize, but better to have the default option be an improvement over the alternative. Even more-so when the change isn’t jarring.

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The FBI recommends using an ad blocker: https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221