Since Lemmy is federated, and the admins of each instance choose what’s allowed and what’s not in their own instance.

How do you feel about what’s allowed and what’s not in your current instance ?

I’ll start: I’ve read people complaining about my instance admins, but I haven’t experienced nor seen anything I specifically disagree with.

And I’ve read things they wrote that I absolutely agree with, like not federating with Meta under any circumstances.

So for now, I’m happy with it. If I get banned randomly, I don’t think I’d go to a different instance, though. I’d probably just stop visiting Lemmy altogether.

  • BorgDrone@lemmy.one
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    4 months ago

    I’m on lemmy.one which has disabled downvoting. If I had known in advance I would have picked another instance. Unfortunately, Lemmy doesn’t have a mechanism to transfer your account to another instance yet.

        • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]@hexbear.net
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          4 months ago

          What do you mean? Hexbear doesn’t have downvotes and people constantly complain about getting ratio’d by us. If an instance doesn’t offer downvotes it completely blocks downvotes from being recorded, it doesn’t leave you at the mercy of other’s downvotes.

        • doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Or you want to communicate that a highly upvoted thing isn’t unanimously supported, but you don’t want the tsunami of downvotes that comes with leaving a comment that says you disagree.

          • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            4 months ago

            Hey dude, I just wanted to let you know there is an option in your settings so you don’t see upvotes or downvotes.

            Lemmy (AFAIK) doesn’t even show you your total upvotes (karma… whatever it’s called) by default either. None of these imaginary points fucking matter.

            So why don’t you do yourself a favor and uncheck these boxes and not give a fuck what others think about your comment.

            I know I have.

            (Lemmy is rad as fuck)

            • Cataphract@lemmy.ml
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              4 months ago

              Holy shit I completely had no idea, why doesn’t this ever get brought up when they talk about voting in general? Thank you for letting people know.