Yup i’ve started using a piefed account to complement my lemmy one. As more featured become fully compatible with voyager and the ability to turn downvotes off becomes a thing on piefed I think I’ll make a complete switch.
I don’t think they bring much and a lot of the most “hivemind” behaviours are linked to downvotes.
Someone having a shitty opinion just shows as 0 upvotes anyways so has the same effect.
Plus having downvotes disabled conditions me to basically ignore shitty takes instead of downvoting them and often replying which IMO has made my lemmyverse experience better.
Also, it makes me a little less worried to post what I truly think without conforming to other people’s stuff. Since I don’t care if I get downvoted.
Yup i’ve started using a piefed account to complement my lemmy one. As more featured become fully compatible with voyager and the ability to turn downvotes off becomes a thing on piefed I think I’ll make a complete switch.
Why turn downvotes off?
I don’t think they bring much and a lot of the most “hivemind” behaviours are linked to downvotes.
Someone having a shitty opinion just shows as 0 upvotes anyways so has the same effect.
Plus having downvotes disabled conditions me to basically ignore shitty takes instead of downvoting them and often replying which IMO has made my lemmyverse experience better.
Also, it makes me a little less worried to post what I truly think without conforming to other people’s stuff. Since I don’t care if I get downvoted.
Ty for the insight! I suppose it just makes the experience generally less confrontational.