That’s right I upvote every post I can! Its nice to be here and I hope this place keeps growing like it is and takes the place of reddit. Have a great day!

  • Clipboards@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    1 year ago

    I’m in the same boat, but I also don’t think I could join an instance with downvotes disabled. Status quo is great, but there are times in which downvotes are necessary - seems a bit shortsighted to disable them

    • BricriuEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      Does lemmy.world support downvotes?

      • Clipboards@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        Honestly, I wondered about this… I should look more into that. I’m fine with my own upvotes/downvotes being public on this account - i probably wouldn’t want the same on a work or NSFW account, and can understand why it’d be an issue on personal accounts for some. A necessary evil for federation.

        Honestly, the main thing for me is retaining the ability to downvote disinformation, bad faith arguments, and excessively offtopic/low quality contributions to a community. Definitely not an issue at Lemmys current size, it’d be a massive issue as it grew.

        • egg360@vlemmy.netEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I pretty much upvote anything I see unless it’s one of the bad points you mentioned, and a funny side effect is that I can see what I haven’t read yet because it hasn’t been upvoted/downvoted.

      • carbon_based@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Technical note, of course the systen needs to remember who voted and who didn’t. I heard that it can cause considerable network load at the servers.

          • carbon_based@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            Yes that is what it does, in the backend. Every time someone pushes a vote button though, the info is sent back to the originating server, and then it is sent out to all other servers that have at least one subscriber, so that the numbers can be updated. So this is internal federation traffic.There’s now a discussion to possibly pool all those internal messages.

    • zabby39103English
      1·
      1 year ago

      So downvotes are disabled even for communities not on lemmy.one? So in other communities people can downvote me but I can’t downvote them? Arg, I picked the wrong server.