If you are coming from Reddit: YSK that Lemmy and Piefed have no karma. Don't delete your posts.
1h 50m ago by sh.itjust.works/u/FoxtrotDeltaTango in reddit
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/54923731
Some accounts are deleting their posts after a few downvotes. It's devastating on communities like c/asklemmy.
Lemmy doesn't track an account's karma like reddit. So, all downvotes will be isolated to your post or comment and won't affect your account—unless you wrote something truly horrible.
Remember lemmy is a community effort. Deleting a post also removes all comments on it. So you are not only robbing the effort others put in, you are actively removing knowledge from the fediverse. Others won't be able to find it through search and lemmy will seem lonelier than it already is.
Doesn’t being downvoted mean it’s not contributing
Let's be honest: No. It's an "I don't like this/agree with this" button.
Whatever, just own your unpopular opinion or grow from your mistakes, but don't shred the bits of content we have.
Nah on larger communities we've already reached the point that going against the hivemind gets downvotes.
I think I upset technology by not sufficiently glazing signal (because it still depends on centralized infrastructure & Google/apple can send you backdoored updates), and there was no room for discussion only downvotes.
I'm certain that's not how people opposed to AI use the feature 😅
Yes and no. If you post something wildly unpopular that gets down voted a ton, then it is contributing (I would recommend not really replying to comments unless you feel very strongly about it though, otherwise you'll probably be accused of trolling or being a tankie {whether you are or not}).
I would recommend not really replying to comments unless you feel very strongly about it though
Haha yeah good advice there, if it's a serious topic.
It’s supposed to be, but people really like being able to negate the amount of likes on something they disagree with