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Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say (github.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Probably better to post in the github issue rather than replying here.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4967

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Showing upvoters and removing downvotes completely!!

People downvote totally harmless posts and comments, just because they have a different opinion.

This useless and contraproductive negativity is the reason why YouTube removed downvotes and many other platforms never offered such a feature.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

removing downvotes completely

This is already possible, just join an instance that has downvotes disabled. This has been an option for years. If you don't want downvotes, just move to such an instance, there are plenty of them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks, did not know about this.

So, from a technical view....

There is a person who is mad about the fact that a different opinion might exist... That person clicks downvote in their app and it does not have any effect??

Or are the downvotes still broascasted to all instances, but "my new" instance just ignores them? Just curious, how dislikes enabled and disabled both work in a decentralized system....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

They are good questions. The downvotes for an instance with downvotes disabled are simply ignored so they don't appear in the interface and they do not affect sorting.