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Removing downvoting feels intuitively wrong to me (eg, I believe that dissent is a really important part of a healthy democracy). If all those mega-corp platforms are removing downvoting, then I’m pretty confident my intuition on this matter is correct
And it happened right when it became apparent that we were living in the Disinformation Age and every bit of power to flag bullshit content became that much more important.
Just downvoted your post. Hah! Checkmate 👍
Just updooted your comment. Bow chica wow wow.
Joke’s on you. I really liked that!!
Aren’t certain instances on Lemmy downvote disabled? I swear I’ve been on certain magazines on Kbin or the Fediverse where it’s disabled by default.
Hexbear.net (spun off from r/chapotraphouse, banned on Reddit in 2019 for fascist propaganda), has downvotes disabled on their entire instance, so that’s one. Please note that though they claim to be “leftist,” their users’ primary focus is spreading right wing propaganda via strawman and red herring tactics, usually in swarms.
Can you point me at the right wing propaganda on hexbear? Someone elsewhere in this thread said blahaj has downvotes disabled so that might be two.
It’s interesting to me that hexbear disabled downvotes because of downvoting campaigns against lgbt users, cultivated a culture of replying instead, federated with blahaj, broke with blahaj and now blahaj ostensibly removed downvotes.
Queer instance main sequence?
They were actually banned from reddit for posting “John Brown was right” memes implying that the radical abolitionist was correct to kill slaveowners. They can be excessive and annoying but they’re certainly not fascists.
banned on Reddit in 2019 for fascist propaganda
lol is this what you think happened?
That’s the great thing, you can choose to join whichever instance you want or make your own.
Yes
at least in capitalism u still can spread hate for free (yet)
Hate is good. Hate generates traffic. Traffic is money. Hate is money. Money is good.
