I got the answer I was looking for so I think so
I got the answer I was looking for so I think so
It doesn’t seem very useful. What I see it used for is silencing opposing view points like veganism or anything that isn’t popular on Lemmy and boosting US military industrial propaganda.
I had someone test this out, if you use the API on vegantheoryclub and try to post a -1 activitypub like activity it fails. This is good for me because I was concerned bots would sign up and be silently downvoting things on other instance communities without me being able to tell.
If you are basing your understanding on misinformation on downvotes that are easily manipulated or driven by people with agendas, then you already failed being a critical thinker.
Thank you SO MUCH for testing this!
I found someone who is more familiar with programming than I am and we tested this. If downvotes are disabled posting -1 fails. Good news for me! Thanks for clarifying for me what I needed to be looking at
requires code changes to Lemmy so not any time soon. I’d like to fuck around with it though