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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
Is Reddit getting rid of down votes?!
No, reddit is not removing downvotes. The post was alluding to when they removed displaying downvotes scores.
Like, okay you down voted, we totally care and all, but no one will see it style?
Does it not even show a decrease in score of that comment?
Well that’s depressing, I went over to seattle on old and it had a lot of content. It doesn’t show any votes if you’re not signed in.
If so, that’s just hilarious.
I suspect soon they’ll remove voting altogether, replaced by a measure of how long it held attention.
Their ranking algorithm very clearly leans on a relative engagement metric pretty heavily, and has for a while.
The voting will stay but your homepage will be a for you page that selects posts based on your usage data and whatever is trending instead of the votes, in an attempt to bring engagement to a maximum. Just like what’s been happening to Instagram for years.
And tiktok
Tiktok was like that from the start. Instagram has been making changes to be more like tiktok
Yes now that engagement is directly monetized, you’re likely 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.
My fediverse instance removed downvotes 😔
Go to another instance then. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Boo 🔽🔽🔽
I downvote stuff from communities that removed it from my instance and Sync for Lemmy lol, or at least I have never noticed the lack of the feature.
I think mine did too, I was thinking it was taken away from me specifically for some reason but this makes more sense
Nice! When did that happen?
Karma is fake anyway.
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.
Your take on Hexbear is absolutely correct
It’s also something I’ve pointed out in the past that netted me bans on other instances (not just the community but the whole instance)
My instance has down votes disabled as well and it’s something that has made me want to switch instances at times. Not to mention the admin really wanting to federate with Hexbear which is absolutely not popular with the users on the instance.
Oh wow, the blahaj admin wants to federate with them? That is unfortunate and more than a little disappointing. I’m sorry to hear that, I hope they figure it out soon and decide not to federate, because they’d just be exposing their users to fascist recruitment propaganda that is specifically tailored to the LBGTQ+ community. JFC, that would be awful.
The Hexbears’ support for the queer community, as I’m sure you’re aware (I’m saying this to promote general awareness), is superficial at best and in reality is a major part of their recruitment machine. They operate just like extreme right wing orgs: they target a specific disenfranchised group with the claim that they hear them, support them, and will fight for their rights, but in practice they take advantage of their already-present anger by funneling it towards a specific political target…in this case, the “liberal western world.” The Hexbear ethos tells them that western values are the reason why they are being oppressed, and in the process they (somewhat ironically) become radicalized instruments of hate.
It’s fucked up and really sad, and it’s hard to get through to people just how dangerous this group is. A common defense is that the Hexbears are harmless because they think the Hexbear trolling approach is funny and that Hexbears don’t come right out and say they are pro-Russia or deny genocide is happening in the world… it can be real difficult to get people to think critically and see past the manipulation tactics. But it’s there, plain as day, it is a hate group.
But I digress. People need to know that these are not innocent good people. I will continue to speak out against these fascists, and I hope you do the same.
Well put, when I first came to Lemmy I remember seeing them and being confused that their actions were at odds with their stated goals.
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?
for fascist propaganda
Do you have a source on this? Everything I’ve seen them post has been left wing. Most of which was anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist.
There’s a megathread on their front page right now dedicated to Joseph Stalin. Now, they’ll argue all day over semantics and adamantly state that Stalin was merely a misunderstood communist, but functionally there’s no difference between how he ran Russia compared to the shit going on in Germany and Italy at the time. The guy was a fascist dictator who murdered millions of people, including the members of the opposition he ordered to be executed. Not to mention the forced labor camps (Gulag), the censorship, government control of all media, state-authorized violence and murder…these are the things their hero did. They are in no way indicative of left wing tenets, nor are they merely anti-capitalist in nature. That shit goes way beyond hating capitalism…that is fuckin’ fascism.
I’m aware of what he’s done, but how is that fascist? Are you using some non-standard definition of fascism?
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
Wait. Did they actually remove the downvote on reddit?
No. Just doesn’t display downvotes counts anymore.
Have they ever (in the last 5 years)? I thought it’s always a total amount type of counter instead of the way lemmy does it.
Tbf I was using a 3rd party client or the new ui so pardon if it’s only the old ui.
Yeah the amount of posts I see just sitting at zero when all the comments are negative about the post is staggering
I’ve even down voted some just to see them pop right back to zero
Not being able to downvote is genuinely awful, I’d almost rather they get rid of upvotes before downvotes
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