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Sub.club is here to help the fediverse make money (theverge.com)
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[โ€“] comfy@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The upvote/downvote button is not a [] petition for making a problem go away by disagreeing with it.

Unfortunately, in a material way, it is. Downvoting a post is a way of lowering its visibility on the platform.

[โ€“] Mazesecle@lemm.ee -1 points 7 months ago

But that is my point: downvoting the news will not keep people from using it; the people who will want to use it will find it anyway.

In any case, people still want to be aware about it, especially the people who disagree and downvoted it, so they should have upvoted instead, in order to have a proper discussion about the issue they supposedly care about.

Trying to bury it in downvotes to make it disappear from "Hot" does the exact opposite.