When I first found out it was an interesting concept that I was pretty neutral on but the more I engage/lurk with the community the more I enjoy it.

I generally don’t post/comment much on Reddit because I tend to be extremely sincere and that’s not always well received. Usually I don’t get much hate, but what I do get is a lot of non-interaction mixed with downvotes. And it’s just really discouraging when I’m just trying to share my thoughts.

But having no downvotes here is so nice because I’m not afraid that I’m going to get silenced into oblivion. Either people will actually engage with me (and maybe disagree, but in a meaningful way), or they’ll move on and not randomly share their disdain via downvoting.

It’s such a small change but makes a big difference. I bet a lot of people feel the same as me - it’s more comfortable to engage here.

  • Bruno Finger@beehaw.orgEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    You’ve got a point. I was bothered with no downvotes until your post and it’s true, we are free to actually have open conversations here instead of be received with being downvoted. Cool!

    • fcuks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      haha not that you should care, but guess you can be downvoted via other instances.

        • zkxs@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Hmm, I see that same post with zero downvotes presently and I’m on neither beehaw nor lemmy.world. I suspect that downvoting beehaw from a remote instance might be local to that specific instance, but I’m not certain.

      • Pigeon@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        You can’t - it’ll look like your downvote went through on your side, when you downvote from another instance, but it doesn’t actually show up for anyone else or change the comment score.