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How does PieFed improve voting compared to Reddit/Lemmy? (piefed.zip)
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I’m trying to understand how PieFed’s voting culture is different. I’ll admit, I usually upvote things I like and downvote the rest. Sometimes, if a post has a low score, I don't even read the title, I just downvote and move on. I suspect I’m not the only one who does this.

I know PieFed shows "Attitude" (the percentage of positive vs. negative votes you cast) on profiles, which is a nice touch. But aside from that metric, it doesn't seem to physically limit the act of downvoting.

Are there plans to make voting more meaningful? For instance, I've seen suggestions in the community about restricting votes to subscribers to prevent "drive-by" downvotes from people who aren't part of the community. How does PieFed plan to handle the issue of users reflexively downvoting without engaging with the content?

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[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 3 points 1 day ago

As a queer and nd entity, sometimes I see a post that's iffy, but I don't want to explain the issue to normies, so I just downvote. If downvotes are disabled, I have to comment and explain the microaggression, and expose Myself to hate if the mods don't want to remove it. In My experience spaces like that develop a culture that privileges mainstream voices for the specific subculture, but actually suppresses other minorities. For example, you could have a trans community that's very white dominated and features casual racism. Or an autism community where people use slurs that disparage people with ID or NPD.