Comment on Hexbear federation megathread

ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• alcoholicorn@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  downvotes

  Must have been from another instance. Hexbear removed downvotes because some transphobes were using sock accounts to manipulate votes and create a hostile environment for our trans comrades. This has the added effect of encouraging people comment if they disagree rather than silently downvoting. In the short term, it makes threads as chaotic as this one, but in the long term, everyone gets a more nuanced understanding of the various issue even if they don’t come to an agreement.

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  • ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    here’s a pic

    It wasn’t all downvoted though. Prob had more up than down which is a win in my book lol

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    • WoofWoof91@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Image

      we literally do not have a downvote button

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    • glans@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Here is how your -16 vote post looks on hexbear:

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• Antiwork@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We don’t have downvotes

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  • ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh okay. Either way it was a more interesting type of conversation than I normally have online. It wasn’t bad at all.

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    • Civility@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      🥰

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  • hypelightfly@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You do, hiding them doesn't mean they don't exist. As long as you're federated you will have downvotes.

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• 420blazeit69@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Accidentally came from /all and didn’t realize what kind of sub I was in.

  Note that when Hexbear users do this it is often perceived as brigading because we are such a large instance and so active.

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  • Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I had logged back on recently after a while of inactivity, and didn’t even know these were other instances

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