I dislike how disenting opinions get downvoted on Lemmy/technology probably more than even on reddit.
That almost makes it sound unfair, but the technology on Lemmy is doing exactly what each one of us tells it to do every time we cast a vote. It is, as far as I can tell, an exact representation of our own individual votes cast.
Certainly it’s not the technology doing the downvoting you dislike, and at least on Lemmy the totals are straightforward – as opposed to Reddit, where every part of the voting and tabulation process is openly manipulated.
If you downvote on Lemmy – and you do, though to be fair your downvotes are minimal compared to your upvotes – you are not averse to downvoting what you don’t appreciate, you are apparently only averse to downvoting when it applies to content that others do not appreciate.
This is not a problem with Lemmy technology. It’s doing exactly what you are telling it to do when you cast either an upvote or a downvote, same as it does for everyone else who votes. That’s not an example of technology not working for its users; that’s technology that’s working exactly as it should.
I could almost see your point on Reddit because of all the vote fuckery that goes on there, but here on Lemmy blaming a mass downvote on the tech and not on the users casting the votes is a misdirection of blame.