Up/down votes only relate to individual comments/posts. You can turn these off in the settings so you don't see them. If this kind of thing affects your mental health, I'd recommend that.
If you do, you won't see upvotes, either, I don't think. But that's good because even if you could turn off downvotes, you'd still be able to compare the number of upvotes between your comments and know whether a comment is less popular than previous comments. That's unhealthy, too.
Richard Seymour's Twittering Machine is a good book about the darker side of social media. He doesn't offer a checklist for individuals to 'fix' the bad effects of social media use, but his analysis is revealing and may help you to identify the problems so as to alter your relationship with mechanisms like voting, boosting, etc. It may have some triggering stories, though, so read with caution and take a break (either reading him or from using social media) to let your mental health recover.
As AlmightySnoo said, there's no karma on Lemmy.
Up/down votes only relate to individual comments/posts. You can turn these off in the settings so you don't see them. If this kind of thing affects your mental health, I'd recommend that.
If you do, you won't see upvotes, either, I don't think. But that's good because even if you could turn off downvotes, you'd still be able to compare the number of upvotes between your comments and know whether a comment is less popular than previous comments. That's unhealthy, too.
Richard Seymour's Twittering Machine is a good book about the darker side of social media. He doesn't offer a checklist for individuals to 'fix' the bad effects of social media use, but his analysis is revealing and may help you to identify the problems so as to alter your relationship with mechanisms like voting, boosting, etc. It may have some triggering stories, though, so read with caution and take a break (either reading him or from using social media) to let your mental health recover.