Your partner/mom/cat has been kidnapped, and the only way to save them is to "write a comment that is guaranteed to get downvoted on Lemmy." What do you comment?
You can post anything and it will get down voted. Lemmy is as toxic as reddit and people use downvote as a tool to suppress what they don't like, regardless of the merit of the comment.
You can post anything and it will get down voted.
I disagree. Downvoting...
The more I use it, the less I like it. For some reason, it feels like a majority of the people here are already angry and argumentative, and they are happy to snap and make me their current problem.
The hive mind aspect is also ~5x worse than Reddit. People love to cover their ears here, even in constructive conversations. It's a real shame.
A lot of users here were pushed out of other communities. They carry the toxicity with them.
Huh, this is a great point. I haven't thought about that.
100% people here are much more argumentative and angry and less likely to tolerate differing opinions
There's also way less viewpoint diversity here. There's a pretty narrow window of opinions on any given subject that's tolerated.
Huh. This hasn't been my experience. I notice some hive-mindedness and meme responses, but in general I feel like high-quality comments are more visible here. I also put a lot more effort into my comments than I ever did on Reddit.
Downvoting doesn't really suppress anything.
Also you can effectivly disable it by switching to a frontend that hides votes and sorting by new. I think that's even the default for some instances.
I think you fell for the comment that would be guaranteed to be downvoted.
This, and moreover some instances don't dederate downvotes.
I'm on Kbin so I only see downvotes from other people on kbin.
People on Beehaw don't see downvotes from anyone because it's not a thing there.
Mmmmmmeta
There is a tendemcy for what gets more downvotes.
In particular anything not FOSS and Windows based.