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I avoid it on my instance by disabling downvotes
Of course downvotes can be ironic such as the one I've just added....
My instance just drops external downvotes, so it's all the same thing to me :)
okay, but in a social environment like the fediverse it kinda doesn’t matter what your instance does: up and down votes are entirely to do with other people, and their instances still show all your down votes
disabling downvotes on your instance just means your local communities don’t have down votes: your posts on other instances still do!
Not quite. What it means is that people on my instance don't have the same view as people on other instances. When we visit a community or look at a post, we see it as if downvotes don't exist, wherever those downvotes come from. You seem them with downvotes included.
How you see my post doesn't bother me. How I see other posts is what I'm interested in, and for me, downvotes don't influence ranking
If 3 users from 3 different instances see a post. One sees 10 up votes, one sees 10 up 2 down, and one sees 10 up 10 down. Each of their home instances will rank and sort the post based on what they see.
The objective reality might be 10 downvotes but for each user the lived experience is based on the value of downvotes in the instance.