As others have said, it currently does not. A workaround that works pretty well, and which I use, is to create accounts on multiple instances and use them as “multi-lemmies” by moving your subscriptions between them according to theme, topic or whatever else you want to group by. A password manager like Bitwarden can help with generating passwords for and keeping track of the different accounts.
There’s not a way to change it on an individual level.
As far as I’m aware / heard, when an instance has it disabled, it doesn’t even store information (or process) downvotes, so even if you could override it (such as by using a third party client) there’d be nothing to view.
I could be wrong though, might be worth trying some of the mobile apps to see if it displays it, just to confirm. For desktop, there’s also Photon.
I personally find a lack of downvotes to be annoying and harmful. People don’t go through the trouble of reporting problem content, and it usually leads to poor quality inflammatory content rising to the top.
If you’re new and haven’t really set up yet, explore other instances. You can find one that aligns with what you want out of Lemmy without jumping through hoops.
If you have set up, there are account migration tools for you. They just aren’t perfect yet
This doesn’t work if you are banned as it prevents you from logging in. Being able to log in and not post is a more user friendly banned state and would allow them to delete their account themselves.
Side question, deleting your account or purging a user would delete all of that users comments correct?
You’re right, but this is the sort of thing that gets blown up by the media and used to shut down privacy-friendly platforms.
Maybe it’s a slippery slope fallacy on my part, but it’s not unimaginable to consider the idea that legislators could try to take down an enitre platform based on something like this. Just look at some of the proposed privacy-antagonistic legislation that’s been introduced recently to see what I mean.
I don’t have a link, but the lemmy creators (and maintainers of join-lemmy) answered this in a AMA about a month ago. They said they’d prefer the horrible people concentrate in their own instances so we can block them easily rather than have them in our instances. The join lemmy list does not serve as an endorsement, but a catalog of all available instances.
They said they’d prefer the horrible people concentrate in their own instances so we can block them easily
Then they need to stop stonewalling and add user controllable instance blocking. I know that some clients have it but they’ve been rejecting calls to add it to the main lemmy codebase for a long time.
Seems like the kinda thing that comes down to “because it hasn’t been explicitly told not to yet”. It’s a computer grabbing from an ever changing pool of instances based on parameters, not a person hand picking what they like. Computers aren’t usually aware of social ques or laws…
Well that’s the thing. I didn’t say anything. Or can’t find what someone thinks I said. Usually modlog links to posts and comments where the violation happens.
My previous comment threads on the community relate to: Canada fucks up yet again, rich people go to space joke, Taiwan joke, democracy indices. Before that nothing for multiple weeks.
There are regime fans in the users, but this is a mod action and calling me a sinophobe is pretty derogatory considering all my love and hope for the culture and people in China
Calling it now: You said something along the lines of “Fuck the CCP” without realizing the history behind that phrase. And yes, it’s use is intended to be barely-disguised sinophobia with an air of plausible deniability. Reddit fascists do that shit all the time and libs fall for it every single time. You’re allowed to be critical of China as a government but what isn’t OK is using what amounts to a nazi meme to do so.
Yeah no I don’t do respectability politics. If all you have to say is “you’re being mean” to a genuine attempt at helping you understand what may have gone wrong than you don’t sound like the kind of person the mods want to keep around. And now thanks to this, everyone is going to walk away thinking you’re some kind of racist so good job on that 👍
My advice from me to you is cut the crap unless you want to be chain banned from the entire federation. Nobody wants to put up with that.
I don’t know what’s going on here? I appreciate your help and was discussing it — the things which apply and which don’t. What do you mean with this reply? Is it meant for some other thread? Who called you mean? What is the racism sentence there?
All post histories are public. Anyone can see what’s true. Or even give a link
This can also happen if whoever you’re replying to deletes their post or comment. It gets rid of the whole tree. People do this when getting trampled with comments or replies. Especially if they’re negative.
The only thing I can think of is to somehow subscribe to the modlog. That will have the entire thing.
As for moderation, you aren’t dealing with a huge corporation, you’re dealing with individuals who choose to host their own server and have their own ideas for how it should run. If you don’t like it, the true freedom is that you can start your own instance and communities. But you need to put in the work to convince people to switch.
I wouldn’t say odd so much as “inconsiderate” and “petty”. The modlog of the community I was posting to showed zero removals or problems. It was the modlog of the instance as a whole. So it wasn’t even easy to find in the first place. Top that off with wildly inconsistent meanings of the rules. Their rule 1 is “Don’t be bigoted/racist/sexist/etc”. Hilarious given they removed an anti-homophobia post for that. They removed another post where the meme was “If you don’t respond my trans homies I’ll change your pronouns to was/were”. That was removed for rule 2. To “Be respectful.”
The extreme lack of communication by moderation, the lack of warnings, the lack of any consistency, and the hypocrisy is beyond rank. When you’re removing posts protecting trans people because it’s “Not respectful” or when you’re removing posts shaming Disney for homophobia then it only goes to show how utterly repugnant, backwards, backhanded, nonsensical, and dishonest the moderation and admins teams are on lemmy.ml.
This is the last comment I’m ever making on this instance. You’ll never see my main account here again or this account ever be used again. I don’t trust the people here. Especially when doing some research and it seems that lemmy.ml got co-opted by lemmygrad and is slowly turning into hexbear 2.0.
I go out of my way to be polite, kind, considerate and to listen to others. If someone had an issue and they wanted to talk then I’d be here. The mods and admins never did that. Never even thought of doing it. That is some wildly reddit behavior and it’s specifically what I left reddit to avoid. It’s also what I’ll be avoiding at all possible costs on lemmy.
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