

Personally, I’d just like to see up/downvotes replaced wholesale with emoji reactions.
Downvotes are a dark feature designed to excuse Reddit (and YouTube, etc.) from actually moderating their platforms under the guise of “social” moderation, but it’s actually something that stifles speech that challenges the consensus, rather than preventing toxicity.
Meanwhile, custom emojis are another way for instaces to differentiate themselves.
It works the same on Lemmy, it’s just that on Lemmy you subscribe to groups, and on Mastodon you subscribe to users.
Groups just forward replies and other interactions it sees to subscribers.