I hate downvotes because they are super arbitrary and oftentimes really petty. Obviously I recognise they can be useful to weed out horrible and discriminatory stuff, but often they are used as a sort of “disagree” button.
The beauty of lemmy though is can be (and am) on an instance with downvotes disabled . So have the exact same experience except only upvotes are possible.
Tankies think downvoting and taking over internet forums is praxis and that “anarchkiddies” don’t read theory. Karl Marx and Stalin said take over reddit communities and downvoting is the first step of transitioning into communism.
You’re being downvoted for this, weird.
I hate downvotes because they are super arbitrary and oftentimes really petty. Obviously I recognise they can be useful to weed out horrible and discriminatory stuff, but often they are used as a sort of “disagree” button.
The beauty of lemmy though is can be (and am) on an instance with downvotes disabled . So have the exact same experience except only upvotes are possible.
Piefed has a great community setting feature making them a bit more reliable/useful although it doesn’t fix how people are using it:
https://piefed.social/post/466854
Tankies are downvoting enmasse in this thread, especially Hexbear users on alts.
Tankies think downvoting and taking over internet forums is praxis and that “anarchkiddies” don’t read theory. Karl Marx and Stalin said take over reddit communities and downvoting is the first step of transitioning into communism.