The ex-redditor in me wants to say, “Downvotes should not be used for disagreement, derp”. It’s one of the (UX?) flaws with this format.

Also as a leftist instance, we want to avoid infighting through downvotes.

Sorry for latching on to your comment. Seemed the best place to say this

While on Reddit, I vaguely remember there being discourse on how upvotes should be for adding to the discourse only. Also that there was some archaic form of AI baked into the algorithm so that users who upvoted en masse would not have their votes counted.

While I wouldn’t want AI in any form for moderation, I think this discussion is necessary and perhaps we ought to have more information on how it is meant to encourage discussion through upvotes, whether or not we use downvotes.

YouTube has always been arbitrary about its copyright strikes, but platform capitalism has a unique way of lending itself to enshittification on every front. Now it is a result of Big Tech backing Big AI. First we were onboarded and now we are being forced to lend our personalities to AI and its “agents”.