I think who one gives that information to matters. I have chosen to give that to my non-profit VPN host, people who doesn’t know will never have the chance to chose. I think that’s important. Goodbye.

This is a good advice, but telling people that this allows adguard to know every domain one visits is an important part of the advice.

Did some listening on the Norwegian one, no errors per se…

Just quite old fashioned. This was how people spoke in the the 70’s and 80’s. If I met a person talking like that I’d insist they’d show me the time portal. Seriously, I want to get away from this decade. Help.

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It’s usually unprocessed video or backups when it’s that size, I found out that the unlimited cloud I’m using is actually 10TB lol.

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Is that a setting of the home instance?

Yes. Lemmy instances can disable downvote federation. I will never see a single downvote at the price of not being able to downvote others myself. Which is fine because I either upvote what I consider good content or report content that shouldn’t be in the community.

single function and the separate voting system

I don’t need downvotes to see the content the community consider good rise above the not so good stuff. It’s the same to me if people downvote or don’t upvote, both means they’re not endorsing it for what ever reason.

So there’s a way to separate good content from bad content through upvoting. And there’s a way of removing content wrong for the community by reporting it.

So what’s left for the downvotes to do? I mean, besides letting angry people do something more than just shout at their screen?

It is up to the users to decide

Then it will always be a race to the bottom and people will decide to misuse it to punish users and manipulate the community. Clear evidence of this happening on Lemmy is rife and the technical level for abusing downvotes on the fediverse is quite low.

In the end the voting system tries to give the community a voice to mirror what content they like to see

A single up or downvote function would take care of that function. In the end the separate up- and downvote system gives the community a tool to punish users who they don’t agree with.

I think it would be better if people downvote content they don’t like instead of using it to “punish” people they argue with.

I agree, too bad REAL communism NOT using the downvote to punish people haven’t been tried.

That’s why I think it is a slight improvement that lemmy shows up and down votes separately

Downvotes on Lemmy? Like on Reddit?

So downvote things that are of low quality and report things that are against the community or instance rules?

Perhaps, but wouldn’t that depend on what you mean by “low quality”? How could one measure the quality of a post in any other way than how it’s adhering to the community rules?

Any other measurements would simply be “that’s just your opinion, maan”, no?

I don’t see the downvotes as anything other than a tool for punishing other users in the way it’s always been used. I see a lot of the arguments in this thread as “Well, nobody has tried REAL communism NOT using the downvote as a disagree button.”

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