Removing downvoting feels intuitively wrong to me (eg, I believe that dissent is a really important part of a healthy democracy). If all those mega-corp platforms are removing downvoting, then I'm pretty confident my intuition on this matter is correct

[–] explodicle@local106.com 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I suspect soon they'll remove voting altogether, replaced by a measure of how long it held attention.

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Their ranking algorithm very clearly leans on a relative engagement metric pretty heavily, and has for a while.

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The voting will stay but your homepage will be a for you page that selects posts based on your usage data and whatever is trending instead of the votes, in an attempt to bring engagement to a maximum. Just like what's been happening to Instagram for years.

[–] ultra@feddit.ro 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And tiktok

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Tiktok was like that from the start. Instagram has been making changes to be more like tiktok

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yes now that engagement is directly monetized, you’re likely correct

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

And it happened right when it became apparent that we were living in the Disinformation Age and every bit of power to flag bullshit content became that much more important.