The person sharing their unpopular opinion is doing exactly what’s expected of them, so why downvote it when you agree that’s it’s an unpopular opinion? An upvote would be you agreeing that it’s an unpopular opinion. Downvoting it means you’re either an A-hole or you disagree that it’s an unpopular opinion.
Now I leave you with a joke. Silver was walking down the street and bumped into gold. Silver says "Ey, You’. Gold replies “Ey, G!”
I wonder if on Lemmy, it’s possible to just switch the up and down votes for a community?
Probably not. It’s not that it’s not possible, but that would mean that there’s a change that the greater whole would have to make. Plus to code something as miniscule as that is neither worthwhile or profitable