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The fact that reddit and its subreddits became huge echo chambers that downvote and challenge anything that isn't the current public opinion.
The problem is that it's just inherent in a community. It can, and probably will, happen here at some point and probably already has to some extent. People will naturally gravitate towards like minded "in-groups" and, given enough time, that will expand into its own echo chamber.
I think it might help to differentiate "I disagree" and "I don't like this" downvotes from "this thing is a waste of resources" or "I don't care what this person has to say, they are an asshole that I don't want to interact with" ones. Comment filtering should use the latter rather than the former.
Allowing controversial comments to still be a part of the conversation without a "this isn't popular!" target painted on them might avoid the echo chamber effect while still giving users a way to passively disagree.
I embrace the downvotes. Sometimes the unpopular opinion happens to be right.
You are upset that popular opinion favors things which are... popular?
I don't think they are upset just could do without it
It's not that, it's more that usually comments that are heavily downvoted get hidden and so see less real discussion, plus reddit starts rate-limiting you when you're heavily downvoted.
Lemmy seems to be better in that I might get downvoted, which is fine I don't give a fuck, but you don't get limited so you can still reply and have discussions.
Can't say I ever experienced that in fifteen years on the site.