I think maybe most users there don't care? Like... maybe most users there use desktop or the official reddit app. Your post being deleted was probably because it wasn't related to books itself, and the mods there decided that they just wanna keep the community going
because I don't want anybody downvoting me on any instance, and I don't want to see downvotes in discussions or have discussions being weighted by downvotes.
exactly. The housing market already sucks for people to be buying a 2nd house specifically to use as AirBnB to profit
A few general recommendations:
Nonfiction:
Fiction:
I guess people in general prefer this way - which is probably why 99% of Lemmy instances have downvotes enabled. You can choose any one of them :)
For me, it makes me more stressed about posting stuff, specially since you can be downvote bombed just for saying you didn't like X book, or whatever.
It also makes me more stressed when reading comments, for some reason. Either when I see an innocent random comment with negative points - I feel bad for the commenter - or when I end up using it as a disagree button and get more stressed. IDK why.
So for me, not having it is way better. Otherwise I maybe wouldn't even have created a Lemmy account, and used the "opportunity" (Reddit down in flames) to be less online - which I guess would also be a great outcome.
TLDR: some people prefer no downvotes, but most instances allow them. Your user is already on lemmy.ml, so why do you care?
I kinda get it, but why would a post be controversial and at the same time not a reason enough to either report or block the user that posted it?
You don't need downvotes. You can always move to any other lemmy instance - since most instances have downvote
There are probably a lot of answers to your question on this thread, but let me ask YOU a question:
99% of Lemmy instances have downvotes. This instance doesn't, and doesn't even let you create communities, so you would need to browse federated content anyway (instead of local).
So... why don't you just create an account literally anywhere else?
I recently had the experience where I was looking for a squid farm design in Minecraft. A Youtube video
you would never know if the downvotes are because of video quality, someone not liking the narrator's voice (or the content creator itself). As someone else mentioned, an actual comment saying it doesn't work on a version is way clearer
it’s also mostly (but not always) correlated with the quality and/or accuracy of the post
it hasn't been my experience in quite a few communities. People will downvote things they don't wanna hear, even if it's the truth, or just an opinion.
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