Well, it’s really more than that.
Due to the nature of Lemmy, where all the data is public in lemvotes, I’ve come to consider a downvote a personal fuk-u, signed from me.
And sometimes I absolutely do want to deliver that direct message to another user, and so I do use downvotes. I do so fully aware that the person I’m judging may judge me in return.
Just cite any hard data on an issue, like population numbers, or economic stuff.
If it challenges or disproves someone’s point, they will claim it’s a lie, and/or report you for trolling.
That or they will go find some other data that is biased to show you how ‘wrong’ you are or claim it’s all part of a ‘conspiracy’. Because the US census is a conspiracy.
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Well, it’s really more than that.
Due to the nature of Lemmy, where all the data is public in lemvotes, I’ve come to consider a downvote a personal fuk-u, signed from me.
And sometimes I absolutely do want to deliver that direct message to another user, and so I do use downvotes. I do so fully aware that the person I’m judging may judge me in return.
not all, its defederated from .ml for example
However if you’re an admin on any instance you can still freely see votes
i downvote posts that whine about downvoting.
and in '26 pretty much everything anyone disagrees with is ‘misinformation’. people no longer agree on basic facts of reality anymore.
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Just cite any hard data on an issue, like population numbers, or economic stuff.
If it challenges or disproves someone’s point, they will claim it’s a lie, and/or report you for trolling.
That or they will go find some other data that is biased to show you how ‘wrong’ you are or claim it’s all part of a ‘conspiracy’. Because the US census is a conspiracy.