this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2023
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's because of the karma system on reddit. It's easy to start caring about that and then the downvotes matters.

I guess here on Lemmy it doesn't actually matter.

[–] darkwing_duck 1 points 2 years ago

I actually enjoyed collecting downvotes as much as upvotes. Not that I would specifically try for it, I just spoke my mind.