[Proceeds to get immediately downvoted.] "Thanks Lemmy!" (insert laugh track here)

I mean mastodon would be very much in Vogue back then

I'm downvoting this, not because I dislike this comment, but to make you happy since you missed it so much

thanks. it was expected. lemmy never disappoints.

I am downvoting this just because I can legally be an asshole.

I have a mastodon account from before the Twitter acquisition and i dont even use Mastodon and never did

downvoting doesn't make you an asshole.

if it's not meta like this, it just helps with sorting and gives the author quick feedback how many viewers didn't like it.

that's much better than mastodon or xitter, where you can just "like" and the author thinks the 20 nazis who "liked" his fascist comment mean it's well received, even though 500 viewers disliked, but didn't have a button for it and had no time to write a response.

even if 5k responses dislike it, the author won't read all of them. he just sees 50 "likes" and has no clue how many of the 5k approve or disapprove of his post.

mastodon and xitter are basically like lemmy with training wheels. everybody just gets gold medals and the fascists can use it to their advantage.

I have never used the downvote button before now. Enjoy!

lmao this is the funniest thing I saw today. Downvote button gets mentioned in post that gets many downvotes.

We on the Threadiverse (Lemmy + PieFed & other smaller threaded forum software platforms) aim to please!

Especially when it comes to downvoting, it would appear ‍️