Also, hiding 👎 is completely brain-dead stupid.

I think, it depends on the platform. The reason why many platform don’t show them is the constant negativity simply caused by different opinions.

40 people agree with your post, 60 don’t agree… I call that pluralism. But showing a -20 for example could motivate the person to delete their post, which leads to echo chambers.

My Lemmy instance does not show any downvotes by the way and I like it. If one disagrees with me, they can leave a comment.

Regarding electricity: yes

Regarding privacy: no, but my privacy views are based on what we have in Germany, where the feature might not be allowed at all.

If you really want it, you should be able to enable it. No reason to do that with the other 90% who don’t need it.

Why are they using electricity for stuff no one asked for? It seems to be too cheap over there…