The issue lies with what downvotes really mean. We’ve all seen instances on Reddit where one was downvoted to hell because it was an idea contrary to the majority of the sub/echo chamber even though their idea was totally valid.
It was absolutely impossible to have a constructive conversation between two opposing beliefs on reddit partly because of that system, it was really infuriating. On the other hand, beehaw seems to outright block the instances where users don’t subscribe to their echo chamber, and I don’t think that’s good either.
Also because because beehaw has sownvotes disabled. Imo downvotes are an integral part of the Lemmy experience. As it is for reddit.
I just think its fantastic that instances can try different things and users can (actually, really, for real this time) easily vote with their feet.
The issue lies with what downvotes really mean. We’ve all seen instances on Reddit where one was downvoted to hell because it was an idea contrary to the majority of the sub/echo chamber even though their idea was totally valid.
It was absolutely impossible to have a constructive conversation between two opposing beliefs on reddit partly because of that system, it was really infuriating. On the other hand, beehaw seems to outright block the instances where users don’t subscribe to their echo chamber, and I don’t think that’s good either.