Ya bring up some really good points.

It’s supposed to be that way, but Lemmy doesn’t always follow that system.

I’m fine with or without a voting system. It does seem to me that the instances which don’t allow downvotes seem a little bit better behaved though.

What are you talking about? Was that reply meant for someone else? I didn’t bring anything up about donald trump or astroturing. I saw a discussion and posted a comment about up/down votes. Not sure what you are talking about.

There are also some sensitive users who just go thru and downvote everything a poster posts, just because they have a personal grudge with poster.

Plenty of people on Lemmy agree that serial downvoters being banned from a community isn’t a bad thing.

If one doesn’t like a community, they can always just block it, rather than make it a mission to downvote every single thing in that community. IMHO, some people take lemmy way too seriously and get kinda unhealthy about it.

Like anything, a system can be used for good or used for bad.

sure. May as well as stop going to most of the internet. I understand your anger, but brah, it’s how things are. It ain’t hard to close a popup. I don’t like it either, but until there is an alternative as popular that’s not commercial, it is what it is. Feel free to stay on Mastadon. lol

But if you push the little “x” in the corner of the popup, it goes away.

Love your passion, but I can’t back ya on that one. I think animal trials are the way to go for now. I just wish the process was faster and more efficient.

Um… animal testing happens before human trials. That’s how science does.

But to your point, I do hope this is safe, and successful human trials start soon. This would be a huge game changer.

Remember the Cant

Yep! This is awesome. Strange to think that I grew up, dreaming of this kind of stuff. And now it’s almost common enough that people don’t even seem to care that much about launches anymore. lol