One of the best features of lemmy is that it lets you see individual upvote / downvote counts

Submitted ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨_number8_@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨general@lemmy.world⁩

genuinely helpful and honestly meaningful (especially if you’re going to invest any level of your mental health in posts (which i don’t recommend but is natural if you try to post what’s on your mind)) being able to see like, oh even if 20 people downvoted me, 7 people agreed with me, i have seven fighters. it’s so much better to see that and get a fuller picture of how your comment was received.

i remember seeing reddit make that change out of nowhere for no reason and thinking…jesus, this is the beginning of the end

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li10@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I find it’s helpful when you get like 18 upvotes and 22 downvotes.

If I just saw 4 downvotes I’d be thinking “did I really say something that stupid?”, so it’s nice to know that at least some people are on the same wavelength as me.

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- magnetosphere@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Sometimes situations like that show how many people actually read your carefully worded comment, and who just slapped the down arrow after skimming the first line. Some people just can’t handle subtleties.
  
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  - samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Sometimes
    
    Boo, downvote!
    
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ch00f@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Reddit obfuscating vote counts was part of its “vote fuzzing” feature. The goal was to make it impossible for ninja banned accounts to know if their votes were actually being counted. So banned people/bots would keep using their banned accounts rather than make a new one.

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- gregorum@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  that was the idea, anyway. of course, anyone using a 3rd-party app was able to get the real vote counts.
  
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  - TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That was the idea, until Reddit realised the potential of manipulating vote counts for their own benefit.
    
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TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Reddit used to do that, then they changed things to prevent vote manipulation. Then they straight up started manipulating the vote count themselves.

I’m kind of waiting for the time Lemmy does the same.

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- otter@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I don’t think it’s possible to do on Lemmy without complete structural changes and possibly abandoning activityPub & federation altogether
  
  You can even check who upvoted what with enough work
  
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  - TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah lemmy is vulnerable to vote manipulation at its core, and there’s virtually nothing anyone can do about it. All the more reason not to care about vote scores, imo.
    
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Nougat@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Pro tip: You may not see votes that people on other instances see. This is why you'll see comments about "people downvoting" when you don't see any downvotes on the comment specified. Probably is the same for post votes.

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PutangInaMo@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Unless you’re on an instance that disabled downvotes… looking at you lemmynsfw…

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- Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Simply view it from another instance.
  
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mateomaui@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s also great that you can join a server with downvote disabled entirely and just ignore everyone who has a problem with it. And/or turn off vote display entirely in some apps and not feed the scoring addiction at all. It’s such an effective cockblock for people who specifically say dumb things like “enjoy the downvotes.” Nope, joke’s on you, pal. Nothing but positive feedback on my end.

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- Garbanzo@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Ignorance is bliss, but the rest of us see you getting trashed when you say dumb shit
  
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  - mateomaui@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Doesn’t matter, go off with your circle jerk.
    
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  - mateomaui@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Here, someone else for you to downvote
    
    lemmy.world/comment/6045998
    
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  - mateomaui@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Also, fuck them birds.
    
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- samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Now that you mention it, I haven’t seen any “enjoy the downvotes” comments on Lemmy yet. Can’t say I miss it.
  
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  - Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    With the plethora of sorting options given here, the votes can truly be meaningless. Like if you sort by New Comments, the only thing pushing a post to the front page is someone making a comment on it. So the only stuff you see every time you refresh the FP is something people are actively talking in.
    
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  - mateomaui@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Oh, the Redditors are here, with their usual rhetoric.
    
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Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It even lets you see what users voted in what way so now you know for sure when 1 angry dude is just following you around, down voting everything you post milliseconds after posting.

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RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
All I see is overall vote count for both posts and comments? Using Sync for Android.

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- Kalladblog@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Same, but with Connect
  
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- Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Maybe Sync has something similar to Liftoff? On Liftoff you can click the … Button and then “nerd stuff” to see all the deeper info shared by a post, including the individual up/down counts.
  
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