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I woke up today, to a public comment in a Lemmy community asking a series of tagged accounts why they had downvoted certain posts
Which community/instance did this? I'd like to block it.
I would like if vote counts weren't shown until after you voted, so it doesn't influence your opinion
You can vote and change your vote. It would be a useless feature.
The "Reddit" way is to allow votes to be hidden for some length of time (often a few hours, but I think up to 1 day).
Because the original reddit made a lot of stupid-ass design decisions. The great Lemmy devs were smart enough not to blindly copy them.
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It’s a hard feeling to take but it’s a free place. I have no qualm with the comments however the topic you are posting on, is a devisive one and I agree with it’s not clear if it’s about the actual date or First Nations rights so there seems to be a few conversations going on at the same time. I am personally in the camp of always was always will be, but I think removing or changing the date will just cause more tension.
Dont let this sour lemmy for you. It’s just a day on the internet.
In this case, the post popped into my "all" feed. I have no idea about neither sides, but I down voted on the design of the poster, for not making this clear. I may be a design freak, to down vote on something like this, just based on that, but getting wrapped into a discussion about being racist just because of a down vote feels quite extreme
Yeh it’s a heated topic and the design of the poster is likely far from most people’s mind. I personally as with others try not to downvote…I just leave the odd sarcastic comment instead like a true elder of the internet.
There’s plenty of manga to downvote if you are feeling a bit trigger finger frustrated. 🤣
That's creepy! I down vote and am down voted constantly.
It's also petty... But knowing that this is so easy to identify people behind vote activity fundamentally changes how I feel about Lemmy
Maybe we should convey to new users more strongly that ActivityPub software "is like a large open place, where you can publish what you want (minus moderated content) and everyone has the ability to see everything you did".
this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2026
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