Comment on What is your opinion on the lack of downvotes?

lemann@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ProvokedGamer@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is probably the main reason I’m considering switching to lemmy.one. Whenever I view a comment or what not, I can feel that I have a bias towards the person being upvoted instead of the one being downvoted. It seems to make it harder to take the post/comment for what it is.

  Not only this, but I sometimes end up worrying if I’ll get downvoted for saying something, so I feel like no downvotes is the way to go. Do you know if any Lemmy clients support not showing downvotes if your instance doesn’t have them enabled?

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  • mateomaui@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Memmy and Voyager both let you hide the downvote column, or select total votes between them which results in the sale thing if you’re on a downvote disable server. Other apps may also allow it.

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    • ProvokedGamer@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks

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    • ProvokedGamer@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do they let you hide it on any instance or on downvote disabled instances?

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      • mateomaui@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Turns out Avelon has a “Show Downvotes” option that you can use on any instance, available in the free features:

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        Only thing I’m not sure about with it so far is how to attach images to posts. Maybe Injust haven’t found it, or it’s a “pro” option, but I switched back to Memmy for this reply, since it’s fast and uses imgur for the image hosting.

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      • mateomaui@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’ve been trying out the newly updated Avelon app today, and it also seems to automatically hide downvotes on -disabled servers.

        It’s free with some features limited to a pro version (I don’t know pricing yet but there’s a lifetime non-subscription option), but the layout is pretty nice so far, you may want to check it out.

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      • mateomaui@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think you’d have to be on a downvote-disabled server.

        Memmy doesn’t seem to actually have a setting for it (that I can find), so I guess it just automatically does it.

        Voyager has the options “Separate / Total / Hide”, so you could hide the votes altogether on a server with downvotes enabled, but would have to be on a server with them disabled for you to see “Total” votes without downvotes.

        Don’t know about other apps.

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  • bug@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Be aware we don’t have an active admin so you probably can’t create an account (assuming the server doesn’t just die one day!)

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    • ProvokedGamer@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah ok. It did let me create an account, but the admin has to approve it so I probably won’t be on lemmy.one anytime soon (if ever)

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