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Lemmy's active users are up again for the first time since the exodus (lemmy.ml)
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[–] UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I saw a "downovoted" in there, felt like it mattered too somehow.

[–] dpkonofa@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I only mentioned downvotes because new users are getting downvoted immediately for completely benign opinions like “Linux was too hard for me to figure out” and “I haven’t had any issues with Chrome”. When someone’s first experience with this platform is what amounts to a deluge of negativity, it hurts the platform as a whole. Instead of being presented with better alternatives or being offered help, people are simply downvoted and, for someone who’s new here, downvotes sting when you don’t realize they’re kinda meaningless.