I think I’ve settled on the latter. Disagreement is maybe best communicated by the absence of an upvote? And downvotes work best when they signal something that is just off base, and while not reportable, is not appreciated at a broad cultural level.

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlOP
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    1 year ago

    I don’t that’s entirely fair or true across the board. I haven’t received a ton of downvotes or anything, but realised that I didn’t know what to do with the downvote and that some were clearly using downvotes where I don’t think I would have.

    For my, it was more sympathetic. I was thinking about people who do get downvoted and whether I’m ok with that.