submitted 5 months ago by AsoFiafia@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I came from Reddit where they definitely did matter. They don’t seem to hold any real weight here. Is this true for some or all instances? If they don’t matter, what are they for?

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[-] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago

From what I remember, it doesn’t matter much on Lemmy. Don’t know the technical stuff behind it though.

Personally, just entirely hided the upvote/downvote numbers. Don’t care about it and it seriously means nothing. Turn off a device and the whole thing is vanished.

this post was submitted on 28 Nov 2025

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