• Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    Lemmy is open sourced so the sorting algorithms are also open sourced. Downvotes on posts are part of the sorting, as one would expect.

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      6 days ago

      It’s amazing how much people don’t understand how voting works or what it is for.

      Downvoting posts push them below better posts. If someone thinks they don’t do anything: change your default post sorting to controversial for a few days and see if you notice a difference.

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      And? We have here a “dozen” threads per week. Sorting-shmorting, but everyone will see all threads anyway.