But it influences the community itself, doesn’t it? If you have a bunch of parrots saying what they think others want to hear suddenly you have a lot less real interactions and way more “reddit moments”… I like how mastodon did it and maybe lemmy should also provide the option to hide likes/dislikes alltogether.

My stomach rumbled just reading the word lol

Aren’t some dried fruit laxative? Ate a bag of dates once, and boy did I have to run to the shitter.