For me, they matter and don’t matter.

Opinion down voting brings useless negativity to Lemmy.

My own experience on Lemmy is that this has been happening more and more. It was not like that when the first Reddit migration happened. However, a year later and that kind of toxicity has started to arise.

It’s one of the reasons why I disabled the visibility of the votes. It also can manipulate on how someone thinks, if it For me, they matter and don’t matter.

Personally, besides the more technology knowledge on Lemmy… I find that Lemmy slowly but steadily adopts more and more Reddit behaviors in terms of user behavior.

I’m on an instance that does not support down votes. That means, if one disagrees, they need to use their brain and write a comment.

Honestly that sounds great. It means people usually have to actually write why they don’t agree.