I don’t have an issue with downvotes on the face of it - I came from Reddit, and found their system pretty good. The issue I have is that it seems to be used as a “disagree” button a lot more here, which discourages discussion regardless of the quality. For example, even on this post, anyone who said they’ve had a negative experience has been downvoted.
i dunno i have never used lemmy from a server that does downvotes it grants an immunity to these kinds of concerns. Just be cool and get along and everybody seems okay to me. It’s easy to block the few jerks you run into 🤷♂️. I used reddit for a long time and I find this community just peachy
I recommend an instance that doesn’t even have downvotes if they bother you!
I don’t have an issue with downvotes on the face of it - I came from Reddit, and found their system pretty good. The issue I have is that it seems to be used as a “disagree” button a lot more here, which discourages discussion regardless of the quality. For example, even on this post, anyone who said they’ve had a negative experience has been downvoted.
i dunno i have never used lemmy from a server that does downvotes it grants an immunity to these kinds of concerns. Just be cool and get along and everybody seems okay to me. It’s easy to block the few jerks you run into 🤷♂️. I used reddit for a long time and I find this community just peachy