Edit: obligatory explanation (thanks mods for squaring me away)…

What you see via the UI isn’t “all that exists”. Unlike Reddit, where everything is a black box, there are a lot more eyeballs who can see “under the hood”. Any instance admin, proper or rogue, gets a ton of information that users won’t normally see. The attached example demonstrates that while users will only see upvote/downvote tallies, admins can see who actually performed those actions.

Edit: To clarify, not just YOUR instance admin gets this info. This is ANY instance admin across the Fediverse.

  • marmo7ade@lemmy.worldEnglish
    311·
    1 year ago

    Downvotes are part of the reddit culture I miss and what I came to lemmy for. Toxic positivity on reddit, youtube, etc is so annoying. Some content sucks and we should be able to downvote it into oblivion.

    • Ultrawide1654@lemmy.zipEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Mhm yeah you are right, but was that how it was used, really? It wasn’t a “This is bad content”-metric. It was a “I don’t agree and I think you suck”-metric. At least quite often

      • marmo7ade@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        1 year ago

        How it was used is how I want it to be used. I want to know the consensus of the community of which I participate. I DO NOT agree that downvote should only be used for comments that “do not contribute”. That’s reddit and I do not want lemmy to be reddit.

        Downvote = I think this content is bad

        If I’m in an instance for the latest Marvel movie, and the community overwhelmingly hates it, I want to know that by seeing how many downvotes it received.

        • Ultrawide1654@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Cool! Yeah, what you’re saying makes sense. I might be changing my mind a little bit, we’ll see how it all turns out. Thanks for the response! :)

      • astral_avocado@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        That’s how it’s always going to work especially politically, and that’s not necessarily a negative in a decentralized model like Lemmy.

    • TeoTwawki@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Yeah I… wait what?? Toxic positivity…in youtube comments?!

      Have I been transported to a parrellel universe where youtube comments aren’t a high 90’s % cesspit of the most vile personalities known to humankind? Does this mean I’m on the good timeline now? Is climate change still poised to make the world super uncomfortable and maybe deadly?