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Turn off Downvote. Lemmy have some quirky user where they will lurk all the time and downvote content that doesn't fit their own preference. Like, what are your purpose? If you don't like seeing that language why not turn it off? Why not scroll past the topic you don't like or don't matter to you? It chase away a lot of people because they feels unwelcome.
These quirks is also the reason it's hard to recommend lemmy to my acquaintance and friends.
Lemmy has this functionality, you just need to join a server that enabled it.
I'm an admin, i know there's this function, and my instance is super small. What i'm saying is it affect the user of big instance more when it's allowed and consequently Lemmy, since new user would likelier to sign up with these big instance than the smaller one(like mine).
Like for example, all post in [email protected], a community that promote new community have downvote. Why? No one know. I remember the Bangladeshi's community post got negative vote count when it's posted, but only a bit later on the upvote start pouring in.