It’s nice on Lemmy because you can see how many votes up and down, along with the total. Reddit was the same a long time ago, but they removed vote counts. A post with a score of 0 could have thousands of downvotes, and your one upvote doesn’t change anything. It’s still a nice sentiment, and would only really help the people who have just one downvote.

I don’t fault you for this habit and think it’s admirable, but don’t posts start with +1? Having zero means someone did acknowledge the post. Putting it back to +1 makes it appear as though no one has seen it yet.

That’s pretty awesome. If I see a post from a small community at a 1, I always updoot so it’s at least a 2