Some accounts are deleting their posts after a few downvotes. It’s devastating on communities like c/asklemmy.
Lemmy doesn’t track an account’s karma like reddit. So, all downvotes will be isolated to your post or comment and won’t affect your account—unless you wrote something truly horrible.
Remember lemmy is a community effort. Deleting a post also removes all comments on it. So you are not only robbing the effort others put in, you are actively removing knowledge from the fediverse. Others won’t be able to find it through search and lemmy will seem lonelier than it already is.
The Internet points don’t matter and never mattered on any platform.
Have you ever met internet people? Basically all of them are idiots; who cares what they think?
Yes. Sometimes driving through down town, I see a specific type of person where you just know these are the fucking morons you spend time arguing online with. Completely out of touch with reality but claim to be all wise.