• I’m not saying it’s impossible or even that unlikely that this greentext is true but it’s equally true that this person could have fabricated this story to push a narrative about reddit on 4chan for some meager amount of acknowledgement and renown.

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          also, a tip: lemmy actually lets you remove the upvote from your own stuff. it counts, unlike reddit, where your own vote doesn’t count, just no votes makes it display 1

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            The problem is that the default configuration has you automatically liking your own stuff, so setting it to not do so makes it look like you were downvoted

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              doesn’t it show the vote counts individually? maybe reddit brains subconsciously interpret seeing 0 in the context of voting being “this guy got downvoted”

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                I don’t know, I use boost and hardly ever use a PC or web interface for Lemmy, and I haven’t noticed

                In my UI (boost default except for fonts and colours) all I see is total votes for comments , and I can click to see up/down counts on posts *turns out I can’t see up and down counts at all in boost

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                    I just logged in on Connect for Lemmy and that is the one that shows up and down votes :) I think I had to turn that function on

                    So it’s pretty random whether someone sees just the sum

                    Also aussie.zone doesn’t always seem to fully synchronise with all the instances I visit, sometimes scores don’t load, sometimes votes from some instances don’t show so I often see everything with apparently zero votes

                    *Just twiddled the settings, comment score split is only shown in Connect if you turn on comment debug information, so I presume everyone on Connect is only seeing the sum