For some reason posts on our instance have recently gotten more downvotes from outside instances than usual and many posts look like this:

I personally don’t like the idea of disabling downvotes but if the feature is mostly going to be used by outside users because crypto is “le bad” we might as well turn it off.

    • tusker
      41·
      10 months ago

      If you do not like something best thing to do is just go away. You do not see any of us lurking around lemmy and downvoting posts about the best new ways to lick govt. boots.

    • VolunTerryEnglish
      21·
      10 months ago

      Thank you for phrasing it as a question. I can answer, but only for myself. I am a person and I like this community. I suspect others who have joined it do as well, by I’ll let them chime in if so.

      I do appreciate you leaving a comment rather than just downvoting.

      Have a good one.

      • the_q@lemmy.world
        13·
        10 months ago

        So how do you explain all the downvotes then? You assume people are just singling out communities? You think you’re “right” and others are “wrong” and just don’t get it? You’re too smart whereas everyone else is dumb? C’mon…

        • VolunTerryEnglish
          21·
          10 months ago

          I don’t need to explain others downvotes or dislike of something to enjoy or find something useful myself. I dont need to base my appreciation of things on others differing opinions because I’m an individual not part of some hivemind that has to conform to popular of fashionable opinion to validate my preferences.

          What others do, they do for their own reasons, which I won’t know unless they comment to explain them to me.

          Aa to your question about what I think, I think that what I do for myself is “right”, because I choose to do it and say so as the authority on myself.

          I never said I was smarter or that anyone else was dumb, so what are you even on about here? You’re having a conversation with yourself that has nothing to do with anything I wrote.

    • rafael_xmr
      11·
      10 months ago

      Or maybe a single attack by a bigger instance with more users is enough to put us down and be stopped from actually reach more people, and we’ll never know what people actually feel by being constantly attacked for being small.