If you click on the “more” button under a comment or link there will be an activity tab. In this tab you can see everyone who has boosted, favourited or reduced the post. I’m not sure if this a
Is a good feature but it’s interesting to see when someone decides to reduce all of your content for no reason.
I disagree with you.
I’ve seen downvoting used very often to very quickly make trolls, spam, and highly offensive attacks disappear at the bottom.
I’ve not seen that on the Fediverse yet, but I have definitely seen comments that were merely unpopular opinions being heavily downvoted.
I’m thinking this might be a nice user-configurable option. If you don’t think downvotes are valuable, disable them for yourself and you’ll see the site as if downvotes didn’t exist. Maybe another option could eliminate voting entirely, which would solve the privacy concerns too.