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My fediverse instance removed downvotes ๐
this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2023
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Good thing Lemmy 1.19 now has account migration support.
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I downvote stuff from communities that removed it from my instance and Sync for Lemmy lol, or at least I have never noticed the lack of the feature.
I think mine did too, I was thinking it was taken away from me specifically for some reason but this makes more sense
Nice! When did that happen?
Karma is fake anyway.
I don't care about Karma, I care about comments being sorted by general usefulness.
Removing downvoting feels intuitively wrong to me (eg, I believe that dissent is a really important part of a healthy democracy). If all those mega-corp platforms are removing downvoting, then I'm pretty confident my intuition on this matter is correct
Is Reddit getting rid of down votes?!
No, reddit is not removing downvotes. The post was alluding to when they removed displaying downvotes scores.
Like, okay you down voted, we totally care and all, but no one will see it style?
Does it not even show a decrease in score of that comment?
Well that's depressing, I went over to seattle on old and it had a lot of content. It doesn't show any votes if you're not signed in.
I suspect soon they'll remove voting altogether, replaced by a measure of how long it held attention.
The voting will stay but your homepage will be a for you page that selects posts based on your usage data and whatever is trending instead of the votes, in an attempt to bring engagement to a maximum. Just like what's been happening to Instagram for years.
And tiktok
Tiktok was like that from the start. Instagram has been making changes to be more like tiktok
Their ranking algorithm very clearly leans on a relative engagement metric pretty heavily, and has for a while.
And it happened right when it became apparent that we were living in the Disinformation Age and every bit of power to flag bullshit content became that much more important.
Just downvoted your post. Hah! Checkmate ๐
Just updooted your comment. Bow chica wow wow.
Joke's on you. I really liked that!!
at least in capitalism u still can spread hate for free (yet)
Hate is good. Hate generates traffic. Traffic is money. Hate is money. Money is good.
Not being able to downvote is genuinely awful, I'd almost rather they get rid of upvotes before downvotes
Wait. Did they actually remove the downvote on reddit?
No. Just doesn't display downvotes counts anymore.
Have they ever (in the last 5 years)? I thought it's always a total amount type of counter instead of the way lemmy does it.
Tbf I was using a 3rd party client or the new ui so pardon if it's only the old ui.
Yeah the amount of posts I see just sitting at zero when all the comments are negative about the post is staggering
I've even down voted some just to see them pop right back to zero
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