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kid named downvotes are disabled in my instance for some fuckign reason:
because downvotes were used on reddit to suppress trans voices
that makes sense
yeah sorry 😅 you gotta block and ignore extra hard then
The entire point of blahaj is to protect queers, especially trans. If you see it as over protective that's totally fair, and feel free to find a different instance! It's part of why Lemmy is great :)
didnt ask but thanks! i know how fedi instances work
Rude
if wanted to be mansplained about a platform i've been involved with for 8 years now i would be on lemmy.world sorry
It's well known why downvotes are disabled. From your comment it looked like you didn't know. It's reasonable to comment how it works in that situation imo.
Edit: Trying to be more polite
mh yeah my bad, didn't mean to sound so abrasive.
you're right i didn't know the reason (or rather, i remember the reason a long time ago being something along the lines of "we disabled downvotes to improve conversation", so that may be a memory issue on my part). i would have interpreted the first reply more charitably if it weren't for the "blahaj is to protect queers, feel free to move instances :)" as if i wasn't a transfem who's been on fedi (and other sites) for a while now and seen her fair share of shit thrown at her.
That makes sense.