Since Lemmy is federated, and the admins of each instance choose what’s allowed and what’s not in their own instance.
How do you feel about what’s allowed and what’s not in your current instance ?
I’ll start: I’ve read people complaining about my instance admins, but I haven’t experienced nor seen anything I specifically disagree with.
And I’ve read things they wrote that I absolutely agree with, like not federating with Meta under any circumstances.
So for now, I’m happy with it. If I get banned randomly, I don’t think I’d go to a different instance, though. I’d probably just stop visiting Lemmy altogether.
Disabling down votes is good actually because it forces people to engage and not just down vote and move on.
but sometimes i just want to be passive aggressive
Or you want to communicate that a highly upvoted thing isn't unanimously supported, but you don't want the tsunami of downvotes that comes with leaving a comment that says you disagree.
That doesn’t really work if people from other instances do get to downvote.
What do you mean? Hexbear doesn't have downvotes and people constantly complain about getting ratio'd by us. If an instance doesn't offer downvotes it completely blocks downvotes from being recorded, it doesn't leave you at the mercy of other's downvotes.