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Your partner/mom/cat has been kidnapped, and the only way to save them is to "write a comment that is guaranteed to get downvoted on Lemmy." What do you comment? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (4 children)

You can post anything and it will get down voted. Lemmy is as toxic as reddit and people use downvote as a tool to suppress what they don't like, regardless of the merit of the comment.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

You can post anything and it will get down voted.

I disagree. Downvoting...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Downvoting doesn't really suppress anything.

Also you can effectivly disable it by switching to a frontend that hides votes and sorting by new. I think that's even the default for some instances.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

This, and moreover some instances don't dederate downvotes.

I'm on Kbin so I only see downvotes from other people on kbin.

People on Beehaw don't see downvotes from anyone because it's not a thing there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Mmmmmmeta

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

There is a tendemcy for what gets more downvotes.
In particular anything not FOSS and Windows based.