It struck me that a post not having a million likes doesn’t mean that it wasn’t seen and recieved by an audience. Nowa days with companies profiling accounts and sharing and selling info with blatant lack of privacy amd trustability, the human audience or readers on a post would be be thinking of the consequences and maybe prefer not to interact. It doesn’t mean that the post is useless.
Especially with the increasong proliferation of bots, it’s not like the old days and “likes” and the value of a post are different things.
You can downvote a post on Lemmy but you’re still looking at it, maybe examining it, thinking, is this post relevant to others?
So not having an algorithm to remove it from your life completely makes you less of a neuron-firing drone and more a consciously thinking person.