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Downvoting comments I don’t agree with doesn’t seem that bad either

It’s useful to show that not everyone thinks the same. When I see controversial comments and posts, it sparks my curiosity and I start really thinking about it

lemmy devs probably thought it was important enough to add then

It’s easier to censor moderate lemmy.ml this way

Why would you always assume the worse? That’s a great way to get offended at anything and to easily censor people while only giving your narrative

It’s not lemmy, it’s just how the fediverse works to prevent double voting

Mastodon also being on ActivityPub, that’s really likely the same thing, except maybe not implemented in the UI, but that could be accessed by the API or in the DB

To each their own I guess

Downvoting posts in the All feed isn’t that bad, as it reduces their visibility if you believe it doesn’t interest you at all and probably most won’t interest many other people, so you let a chance to other posts to show up

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Yea for sure

I believe most “vote manipulation” bans aren’t really on that case though

It’s mostly “you strongly disagree with us? Fuck you!”

I don’t use it, but I also believe context obviously tells you that it was meant as a bad choice for “crazy” / “obsessive” and not a discrimination against those people

No need to minimod and taunt

Your voice matters. Downvoting can be useful to prevent echo chambers (ex: downvoting lemmy.ml bs)

Now if the thing is just not fundamentally wrong like it’s just subjective and you don’t like it, yea it could harm, but the most likely is that less people will do it than people liking this type of content will upvote

Its only really problematic on smaller instances or if you do it continuously for every single post without a good valid reason

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settings -> block instance

And then your life will be a bit better