Downvotes can be bad but imo only upvotes can be worse.

This is true too. I can only hope disinformation and harmful content can be reported to moderators that will take action to remove it.

Agree entirely. Down voting encourages a hive mind mentality which builds echo chambers and is whats wrong with most social media platforms.

Looking for “local” city and state/province communities. A place to talk about local politics, share information on upcoming events/festivals, talk about traffic and weather.

But reality is Lemmy isn’t that big yet. So maybe start regional like how midwest.social is doing and divide it up when activity is too much to handle.

“Brush me, slave!”

<3 She missed her calling as a model!