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this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2023
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My fediverse instance removed downvotes ๐
That genuinely sucks and helps misinformation spread. It's part of the reason reddit went downhill after they did that.
It's because bigots will blanket down vote any and everything in queer instances.
Try holding a conversation when posts are all sitting in the negatives and nobody sees them unless they go directly to the community and sort by new.
lemmynsfw has implemented (or intends to) an interesting compromise, in that you can only downvote posts on that instance's communities that you're already subscribed to. Ideally, this means that downvotes are for the quality of the individual post, rather than as a reaction to the type of content.