Sometimes I see a post that could really use a downvote, but I can't downvote it. I really think being able to downvote posts that are not great (rascism, tankieism, dumbass takes, etc) is a really cathartic experience and I miss having it from my old instance.
I understand wanting to remove downvotes to combat negativity, but I don't think it's a good idea. When YouTube removed dislikes, people missed having them.
Edit: A lot of people are replying to this saying that if someone posts hateful content, I should just block and report them. Which I don’t disagree with, but there’s always content that’s annoying enough to want to downvote, but not bad enough to go against the rules of the sub. I’d rather just downvote that sort of thing and go on my way than leave a comment saying “shit’s cringe, yo”.
However, because the post was made to a Blahaj Lemmy community, those downvotes will only be visible to folk on your instance, because Blahaj Lemmy just ignores downvotes that federate to us, and doesn't federate them onwards.
Interesting.
So if I'm on the instance "Adama" and downvote a post on "Blahaj", does someone on "Cremmy" see the downvote or not - will Adama tell Cremmy?
If the community is hosted on Blahaj, Blahaj won't federate it to Cremmy
But if the user is a Blahaj user, posting on a group on instance Django, Django will forward the downvote to Cremmy.
However, in both of those scenarios, Blahaj itself will ignore all downvotes, meaning that the sorting algorithm for Blahaj users looking at content, local or remote, doesn't take downvotes in to account
Interesting, thanks for explaining.