Should social media platforms only allow upvotes or favorites?

As I understand it, Kbin doesn’t allow downvotes just like Mastodon. Users can only mark a comment or OP favorite (upvote) and the Kbin user can see what account favorited / upvoted their comment or OP. Also if it’s from a Lemmy user by the way.

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    1 year ago

    You can’t hide from it on the Internet. I have seen forums where downvotes are visible to everybody and there still was lots of toxicity. One of such forums later moved to no-downvote model and guess what? Downvotes are no longer there but toxic people still are

    On the Internet people don’t know you, what you went through etc. They only see a string of characters as your nickname and it doesn’t help much to make them more understanding