• eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    8 hours ago

    but downvoting posts lowers what most users see

    i think that’s the intention behind it. a huge majority of lemmings came from reddit and votes matter on reddit so redditors are conditioned to consider the votes before they consider content of the message. if they see mostly downvotes; they won’t even bother looking at the post, much less consider it.

    like republicans misleading to their base to get votes out of them; the reddit enshitification induced user diaspora is being mislead and we can only best help by being here and trying to engage.

    and just like those mislead republicans; those lemmings will fight tooth and nail to keep their ignorance safe so we should expect behavior like this.