I came from Reddit where they definitely did matter. They don’t seem to hold any real weight here. Is this true for some or all instances? If they don’t matter, what are they for?

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    18 hours ago

    Not sure what you mean when you say Reddit votes matter in some way that they don’t on Lemmy.

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      6 hours ago

      On Reddit, the algorithm that determines which posts appear on the main page is heavily influenced by the number of up/down votes for the post and its comments.