Fediverse

Everyone's fleshed out a lot of the discussions so I'll just bullet point my opinion to try to better explain the discourse I'm seeing on here

• I view "Lemmy" like it's a Community Center with group discussions, Community gatherings, and/or lectures with public comments. If you're in the crowd "Booing" (downvoting) without standing up and making your position clear, you're not adding anything to the discussion.

• Downvote/Upvote is not like "Booth Voting" at all. You have ONE vote in a democracy, that's the core principle. You don't vote Yes for a candidate then vote No for another. You don't see a ticker above the booth tallying everyone's vote that was before you (voter manipulation, why hidden scores became a thing).

• I think this would go over a lot better if mods had the choice of how to present the votes. Opt in or out of showing voters, opt in or out of showing scores or eliminating downvotes or even upvotes if you want. Give the power to the community and create useful tools for mods to try out.

Eh, I don't personally care.

But it could lead to nastiness as lemmy expands. If enough people go to the trouble of looking it up, you get some of them being assholes because people are prone to being assholes. That leads to drama. Drama leads to nastiness and worse things sometimes.

If that's going to be part of how lemmy works, so be it, I'm way too old to skip using a block list for assholes. But it might bite federated services in the ass, so it probably should be on the list to get implemented.

Any instances that actually show public downvotes? I've seen people talk about them but haven't seen them yet

I see absolutely no reason why they shouldn't be

Sure, if and when we get the ability to ignore federated votes