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Hmm. Interesting. But I act as if my actions are completely public in all places in Lemmy.
Really. I’ve been using this nick for 35 years. I’ve published a few things.
Wouldn’t be too hard to track me down and make my life hell. It would be best if that doesn’t happen.
I don’t hold back with my feedback to idiots online, but I avoid crusaders, and carefully consider my downvotes.

Of course you are correct.
My point is that its a mistake to assume you know what’s going on with a downvote.

Well, it’s really more than that.
Due to the nature of Lemmy, where all the data is public in lemvotes, I’ve come to consider a downvote a personal fuk-u, signed from me.
And sometimes I absolutely do want to deliver that direct message to another user, and so I do use downvotes. I do so fully aware that the person I’m judging may judge me in return.

O RYL? :]
What distro would you recommend?

What do you think should be done about unbelievers?
After all, those who have strayed from the one true path must be dealt with…

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 innumerably reasons for why people vote, and it may not at all be what you think.