It does make you wonder if some of the instances were onto something with getting rid of the downvote button. They say it promotes discussion over just downvoting without any information as to why it was bad.

The flip side would be that it allows misinformation to not be shown as such as evidently.

Maybe new cars down have it anymore but km/r were always on my dashboard as well

Mind if I ask why? They have a radiant smile and appear to be living their life in a manner much more freeing/happy than I am.

I mean I don’t like the taste of Burger Kings burgers, but I don’t pull off the road when I see one and walk up to the counter to tell them. I think negativity always invites negativity, which on here starts around downvotes

Has to be an odds thing, 100 people born rich, 1 gets lucky and gets way more rich… By screwing over every working person in America.

They really sealed the deal

Lemmy is listed as just Lemmy second in the “Less active than Reddit” section

When you write a declaration of peace with the blood of your enemies.

“Sir this is a rescue for puppies, why did you make a flag out of their pelt?”

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Not to mention how much it puts on the shoulders of moderators to have to fact check every post/comment and find reliable sources to ensure false information isn’t spread. It would likely be unsustainable without a lot of funding if the platform expands furrher over time.

Agreed, the more I’ve thought about it I keep coming back to it being safer with all users knowing the data is easily accessible by everyone else. That will prevent users from situations as well where maybe they upvote something NSFW/controversial thinking what does it matter if they didn’t comment so no one would know it was them. Some time in the future someone may start aggregating the data to use to kink shame / call out people or such.

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Every vote is recorded in activitypub and carries or else it wouldn’t know you already voted. That information is public on other instances currently, so people you are responding to may have that information.

Passport required? Shit, most of our country would be ineligible to vote as they can’t afford to travel out of the country for vacations enough to keep up to date passports. Valid up to date passports are around 40% of the population in the U.S. I believe it is trending up though. Pre 9-11 they were way lower. (Because you didn’t really need a passport to go on short trips, just an ID)

It also opens the door to more users obsessing/being confrontational with anyone who downvoted their comment(s). May send users off to downvote users comments for lurkers who rarely comment, which could shrink the population/activity over time.

Not sure where I stand on it, I guess if the info is there and will be used by others, it’s good to be aware