I’ve mostly left reddit and switched to beehaw, but I posted on somewhat of a niche tech-related subreddit today since there really isn’t a community for that here yet. And wow, I got instantly downvoted twice and the first comment response was rude and hostile. All I posted was a feature suggestion for software that I thought would be useful and that a good amount of people would like based on other feedback I’ve heard. This is not the sort of topic that should be controversial or aggravating, and it wasn’t like I made an ignorant post suggesting a feature that already existed or otherwise wasn’t well researched.
This type of instantly hostile response has happened numerous times on reddit for various different topics, but I just haven’t posted for a while, so I forgot just how shitty it can feel. It makes me really appreciate how friendly and respectful the community is here on Beehaw and on Mastodon. People seem to have good faith in one another similar to how the internet used to be in the old days.
Have you had similar experiences with Reddit and similarly opposite experiences here on Beehaw/Lemmy?
Try it in your app and you’ll see what happens right away. Basically it just doesn’t work. Like you do the action but you get something like “error while applying vote” or something similar. I’ve used five apps now (I think?) And they all say something slightly different but the result is basically the downvote just doesn’t go through.
It is instance specific, so on instances that allow downvoting (which is most of them) it works fine even if your instance does not.
You can definitely see downvotes when viewing beehaw communities on other instances.