Neshura

I disagree, the lack of downvotes on other platforms makes it hard to see if an opinion isn’t popular or simply didn’t get many views. Yes downvoting was absued to just disagree with an opinion but it also served in separating malicious and harmful content from the good comments in cases where moderation would be excessive (for example: arguing the earth is flat. Nobody should be banned for saying that but people should still be able to tell that nobody thinks that).

While commenting can serve to do that job as well it does so worse imo. You likely don’t comment on everything you would upvote either and it’s the same thing really.

Advantage is if this thing slides in a direction the majority disagrees with it can be forked. On reddit all changes had to be accepted or you could leave. With lemmy and ActivityPub it’s easier to fork the service and have it run in semi parallel to the OG. (Granted forking should only really be done if shit goes sideways)

Only issue is after the firat couple wins your investments start moving the market too much making the outcome unpredictable agai