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Looking at your post history, I'm just seeing that the down votes look average to me.
If that's what you're talking about, I wouldn't take down votes personally.
Often what people are down voting is bad news, not necessarily fake news or something they disagree with.
If that's not what you're talking about, then never mind.
I started a thread about lemvotes some time back.
Several people went to look up their own post histories, and one guy offered the most unique insight.
Apparently in this Lemmy client on his phone, he was clicking a button to make posts 'go away' after he read them.
Well after looking up his own vote history, this guy realized he's been downvoting everything he reads, all the time. That was not a 'go away' button.
After reading this guy's confused bullshit with the voting buttons, I came to realize that there are innumerable reasons for why people vote, and it may not at all be what you think.
true, but let's be honest most downvotes are just people disliking what you wrote.
Of course you are correct.
My point is that its a mistake to assume you know what's going on with a downvote.
That's hilarious!
Technically, it was.
Reddit also has option to hide downvoted posts. I guess same thing in his client.