this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2025
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While I personally wouldn't want this and agree with the comments about simplicity, old forum style, privacy talking points, I just don't understand why people downvote this post.
It's a good question that creates good discussion (you know, purpose of lemmy) and doesn't really lead to anything concrete necessarily. Just interesting discussion.
People use downvote as a disagree button but it does have a real impact on the feed: this post will get buried by some post feed filters and some people will never see the good discussion going on in here.
But to answer the question (even though there are already good answers): I personally think it's also a stressful feature that will just make people feel like they need to answer to replies / will make lemmy look dead because only a handful of people use anything but "invisible" status.