So, coming from the world of RIF where downvotes haven’t been a thing for quite some time:
what are downvotes for in Lemmy?
What am I expressing when I downvote?
I don’t agree with the post? I don’t want the post to gain notoriety? I don’t like the sentiment or the way it’s expressed (even if it’s factually true)?
Help!
Downvotes weren’t a thing in Reddit is Fun? I definitely remember downvoting things using RIF right until the end.
To me, I will downvote things that do not deserve any visibility. Such as things that are factually wrong, things that don’t contribute, overplayed jokes, hateful posts,…
Think I mist be losing my mind, was it just certain subreddits that didn’t do downvotes? Anyway, thanks for the answer.
This is some mandela effect shit, you definitely could downvote on rif up to the last day
In addition to what the other user said: some subs were hiding the downvote buttons through their custom subreddit styles. You’d only see this if you used old.reddit though and if you disabled the css (or used an app like RiF) you could downvote as normal.
Maybe that’s where your confusion started.
I used RIF every day for the past 8 years until it closed down and I have never seen any instance where I couldn’t downvote.