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lemmy devs probably thought it was important enough to add then

It’s easier to censor moderate lemmy.ml this way

It’s not lemmy, it’s just how the fediverse works to prevent double voting

Mastodon also being on ActivityPub, that’s really likely the same thing, except maybe not implemented in the UI, but that could be accessed by the API or in the DB

To each their own I guess

Downvoting posts in the All feed isn’t that bad, as it reduces their visibility if you believe it doesn’t interest you at all and probably most won’t interest many other people, so you let a chance to other posts to show up

Edit: typo

Yea for sure

I believe most “vote manipulation” bans aren’t really on that case though

It’s mostly “you strongly disagree with us? Fuck you!”

Your voice matters. Downvoting can be useful to prevent echo chambers (ex: downvoting lemmy.ml bs)

Now if the thing is just not fundamentally wrong like it’s just subjective and you don’t like it, yea it could harm, but the most likely is that less people will do it than people liking this type of content will upvote

Its only really problematic on smaller instances or if you do it continuously for every single post without a good valid reason

any instance admin can see all upvotes/downvotes on any message from the web UI

fediseer which is basically “get approved by me or people I approved, or get fucked”

they basically have absolute power in this system

the whole “if you don’t like the content, don’t downvote, but just ignore / block it” is really cringe

It’s going to be okay

keep calm and go fuck yourself