Asklemmy

I’ve seen downvotes on cat photos. Some people just downvote.

Of course, sometimes it’s because swiping might not always work correctly: I found on an earlier version of Lemmy, before actual arrows, that accidentally downvoting sort of locked the swipe in place, such that I couldn’t switch to an upvote without really fiddling with it, and some might not notice or go back and correct it.

It might be growing pains, it might be trolls, it might be earnest but sincerely pigheaded people: who knows? It’s a small userbase, too, so 3-5 baddies makes up a much larger portion of active users than on even a small subreddit, so I wouldn’t worry too much about it. You can’t please everybody, so just focus on having good conversations with people: the ones who are worth it are listening to you first before worrying about votes.

You will get downvoted in any disagreement, that's not exclusive to reddit or Lemmy, that happens in any social media with downvotes.

The purpose of downvotes is to show what the general people in that common section think about your comment. You shouldn't give any hoot about it other than the info it provides.

Obviously, if you are talking in controversal topics or ones with conflicting sides, you are gonna see alot of downvotes. Its just people expressing their opinion.

Echo chambers are just a natural part of communities. People often come to feel validated so they stick to ones with the same thoughts as them. I don't recommend trying to argue/discuss with people who only want to "win" cuz there's nothing to gain.

Talk with those who argue because they want to learn or understand something better. (or perhaps help you learn something new)

There's no mechanism against brigading here but it would be interesting to see who the downvoters are (since that information is exposed to any federated instance admin anyway), and exposing them might actually be a good way to disincentivize rage-downvoting and other toxic behavior. I've been followed by the same 4~5 downvotes for a few days and then they apparently got bored and disappeared at the same time, but what was funny was that that number of downvotes appeared every time almost immediately after me posting anything (and I already have a few guesses as to who they might be).

Anyway, there's no karma system on Lemmy, so it's not as impactful as on Reddit, but it does introduce negative bias for others before they even read what you wrote.

Not downvotes, but I have noticed that some of my comments are either being deleted or hidden?

Either it's an issue on Lemmys end, or we got Spez wanna be mods in here deleting shit they don't like or disagree with.

I recently notice increases in the number of downvotes and posts/comments wiyh negative points

Not only downvoted, but my comment was also deleted by someone after it had like 60 downvotes. When that happened, I started considering moving away from Lemmy right after coming here, because it seemed to be a worse echo chamber than Reddit had ever been.

Only because it wasn’t easy and also not easily accessible via Memmy (which I really like) I stayed for the time being. For example, I can’t login to a kbin account (only subscribe to kbin communities) and I don’t have access to Mastodon using Memmy.

So I guess already like Apollo kept me with Reddit, Memmy keeps me here for the time being. I stopped participating in anything remotely controversial though and became a lurker because I learned that day, discussion and a variety of opinions are not what the majority of users here are after. Maybe that’s true for all social media, idk…

I dunno, I’m just used to seeing upvotes when I’m supporting the thread I’m commenting in and downvotes when I am not.

The upvote system is stupid