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You’re not missing too much unless you like the news discussion. Im subbed to all their communities and most of the posts outside of news is pretty lame.
They can’t downvote anything so that’s really weird. Like I get that they want everyone to have a positive experience but how the fuck do you combat spam, irrelevant submissions or bullshit comments? The lean too heavily on moderation which is why they can’t scale with the fediverse so they defederated because their mods can’t handle the work load.
We all know what the simplest solution would be but I won’t say the quiet part out loud 😅
So what, what's wrong about expressing "I don't like this"? How's that different from expressing "I like this"?
The only "toxicity" is that it seems there are downvote trolls, so almost every post automatically gets a downvote immediately. But you can just ignore if you only have that one or two downvotes. If you can't handle that, you can't be surprised if you get called a snowflake.
People can and will build botnets to artificially upvote their posts, and downvote opponents. It's too easily abused.
Ok so why keep upvotes? It's the exact same problem. I've seen so much crap with shittons of upvotes, but one downvote and it's suddenly an issue.
They shouldn't keep upvotes either honestly.
I can respect that consistency.