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[–] streetfestival@lemmy.ca 104 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Removing downvoting feels intuitively wrong to me (eg, I believe that dissent is a really important part of a healthy democracy). If all those mega-corp platforms are removing downvoting, then I'm pretty confident my intuition on this matter is correct

[–] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is Reddit getting rid of down votes?!

[–] CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works 63 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, reddit is not removing downvotes. The post was alluding to when they removed displaying downvotes scores.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like, okay you down voted, we totally care and all, but no one will see it style?

[–] theolodger@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Does it not even show a decrease in score of that comment?

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Well that's depressing, I went over to seattle on old and it had a lot of content. It doesn't show any votes if you're not signed in.

[–] MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

If so, that’s just hilarious.

[–] explodicle@local106.com 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I suspect soon they'll remove voting altogether, replaced by a measure of how long it held attention.

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

Their ranking algorithm very clearly leans on a relative engagement metric pretty heavily, and has for a while.

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The voting will stay but your homepage will be a for you page that selects posts based on your usage data and whatever is trending instead of the votes, in an attempt to bring engagement to a maximum. Just like what's been happening to Instagram for years.

[–] ultra@feddit.ro 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Tiktok was like that from the start. Instagram has been making changes to be more like tiktok

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yes now that engagement is directly monetized, you’re likely correct

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

And it happened right when it became apparent that we were living in the Disinformation Age and every bit of power to flag bullshit content became that much more important.