I can’t say I never downvote anyone but I get into these comment chains from time to time where really no matter what I post whoever I’m talking to downvotes every response but I generally shy away from downvoting even things I dislike. I don’t want to fall into an echo chamber where all I see are only the things I agree with.
Yeah that’s a pretty accurate synopsis of the major trends. Different subs break away from this. If you’re coming from reddit then it’s was generally left leaning but was just bigger so politics was easy to escape.