Honestly, Lemmy is starting to really disappoint me. I figured I was leaving most of the circlejerking, reposting, and shitposting behind on Reddit. However Lemmy is every bit just as bad :-/ which is frightening considering how few people are on Lemmy. If it’s getting this shitty right now, imagine it if there was a real Reddit migration…

Half my comments just get downvoted for no reason. I told someone I was sorry their houses got messed up by tornados…two down votes. Like I know karma doesn’t matter, but it’s not fun or encouraging to see and has genuinely made me post less.

You could always go to an instance like beehaw that disables downvotes.

It’s not that I wanna get rid of downvotes, I think down voting is a good feature. It just feels like people are more downvote happy hear, even though it doesn’t mean anything. It’s like instead of it not meaning anything making people use it less, and actually make some people use it more specifically because it “doesn’t mean anything”. I’m not sure if this is just mean people being negative or just trying to get their own post more attention, but I’ve definitely noticed it.