Your son has seen so many ads for delivery services that he decided to start his own.

Lemmy.world has a lot of users and more users means more downvotes. It also happens to have a lot of news and political communities which attracts a lot of strong opinions.

Personally, I find the only function of downvotes is to discourage contributing and discourse, and that seems antithetical to what this platform is supposed to be about.

Don’t the buttons on the handle need to be pressed for the chain to move?

It’s what we in the biz would refer to as a “grower”, which is in contrast to a “shower”.