I woke up today, to a public comment in a Lemmy community asking a series of tagged accounts why they had downvoted certain posts
I thought that reactions to posts and comments are anonymous and now I don’t really know what to feel about Lemmy any more.
In this case I had downvoted a poster because of its design, but was confronted publicly for being racist because the person assumed that I downvoted the message on the poster
EDIT: changed the title from “How” to “Why” because it broke rule nr 5 about it being a support question
It’s a hard feeling to take but it’s a free place. I have no qualm with the comments however the topic you are posting on, is a devisive one and I agree with it’s not clear if it’s about the actual date or First Nations rights so there seems to be a few conversations going on at the same time. I am personally in the camp of always was always will be, but I think removing or changing the date will just cause more tension.
Dont let this sour lemmy for you. It’s just a day on the internet.
In this case, the post popped into my “all” feed. I have no idea about neither sides, but I down voted on the design of the poster, for not making this clear. I may be a design freak, to down vote on something like this, just based on that, but getting wrapped into a discussion about being racist just because of a down vote feels quite extreme
Yeh it’s a heated topic and the design of the poster is likely far from most people’s mind. I personally as with others try not to downvote…I just leave the odd sarcastic comment instead like a true elder of the internet.
There’s plenty of manga to downvote if you are feeling a bit trigger finger frustrated. 🤣