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I'm in the same boat, but I also don't think I could join an instance with downvotes disabled. Status quo is great, but there are times in which downvotes are necessary - seems a bit shortsighted to disable them
The weird thing is that on kbin.social you see who has upvoted/downvoted comments and posts (not only your own comments and posts either). I don't know if this is just part of the activityPub protocol and don't know if it is visible on any of the lemmy websites, but it sparked interesting discussions whether this will cause problems or if it actually enforces people to use the downvote button as "does not contribute" instead of "I disagree".
Honestly, I wondered about this... I should look more into that. I'm fine with my own upvotes/downvotes being public on this account - i probably wouldn't want the same on a work or NSFW account, and can understand why it'd be an issue on personal accounts for some. A necessary evil for federation.
Honestly, the main thing for me is retaining the ability to downvote disinformation, bad faith arguments, and excessively offtopic/low quality contributions to a community. Definitely not an issue at Lemmys current size, it'd be a massive issue as it grew.
I pretty much upvote anything I see unless it's one of the bad points you mentioned, and a funny side effect is that I can see what I haven't read yet because it hasn't been upvoted/downvoted.