I think it’s because people are taking their frustrations out on whatever seems to make people think something might be on the upswing. Even better, because you can’t necessarily see who upvoted nobody can call them on it.
It’s like the folks who go to see a movie and gush about how awesome it was when you’re sitting around shooting the shit, but the moment they get on the Net they trash it in as many ways as possible.
On kbin we can see who upvoted and that takes a lot of the frustration and paranoia away.
There have been times when it turns out to be, say, the OP is upvoting all comments on their post and someone is being upvoted by someone they are arguing with and then one of the others is someone I often see upvoting trolls on .world or whatever.
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 6 months ago
More or less agreed. Side note though, votes on Lemmy aren't private. Admins or self-hosters can always see them if they care, and other platforms (notably Friendica and kbin/mbin depending on version and config) display the identities of people voting to everyone. It seems wrong to me that most Lemmy-style platforms don't make this clear.