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Post Karma Does Matter on Lemmy, use your votes accordingly. (midwest.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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TLDR: 3 people working together can gatekeep content on the "active" and "hot" feeds on smaller servers/communities.

After some playing around, I noticed posts disappear after reaching a threshold. A quick search later and I'm in the Lemmy docs reading about how this all works.

In plain English, any three people working together (or one person with three accounts) can stop posts from appearing on the default feed. Once a post reaches -2 it will only appear to people who browse "new." Edit: Of course, it reappears after it climbs above -2, but it's a race against the clock.

As a smaller server, we're vulnerable to this. But we also have some extra mitigations - namely, @[email protected] has to approve everyone who joins, and that might weed out bad actors.

So what can you do? Upvote content liberally, downvote sparingly.

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[–] tallwookie 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I disagree. post karma only matters if you're limited to viewing in the feed only. if the community doesnt care about posts showing the the federated feed then post karma is a meaningless metric.

a worrisome issue is that brigading smaller communities effectively mutes them (from a federated standpoint)... however, there are innumerable ways to search for communities. you do have to take the initiative.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you possible expound on these innumerable ways? I am new to Lemmy, and have been trying to subscribe to some federated communities, but can't seem to find them without clicking on something that takes me away from my home server. I know we're federated with them, because I am subscribed to other groups on that same server. But the Search function doesn't seem to work at all, and entering the address manually (as best I understand it) returns a nonexistent group error.

Could you help me out?

[–] tallwookie 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

sure!

https://sub.rehab/ <--- Communities list (lemmy versions of subreddits from reddit) - just keep scrolling down

https://browse.feddit.de/ <--- same sort of idea with a different kind of interface

https://lemmyverse.net/communities <--- again, but different interface

https://fedidb.org/software/Lemmy <--- a list of instances, what version of lemmy they're running, and links to those instances. visit each instance & look in the "Communities" tab to see what groups are hosted on that instance.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/map <--- same sort of idea except you can see where the instances (aka servers) are physically located

https://lemmymap.feddit.de/ <--- federation map - you can see which instance federates with what other instances (or has explicitly defederated/blocked them & which ones).

https://fba.ryona.agency/ <--- defederation log - see what instance has defederated and the rationale provided, with searchable terms

I'm sure there are other methods

now, when you find a community that you want to join (assuming it's federated with your home instance), on that page there should be a block of text saying something like "you're not logged in blah blah blah, our community is called [email protected]"

so then you copy the text "[email protected]" and go back to your home instance & search for that - it will return a link, click on that link, then click on the Subscribe button.

rinse & repeat as necessary