I feel like there's an equal amount of people being stinkers + people trying to remind others to be chill/happy to not be on reddit and trying promote positivity. At least that's my perception of what I've experienced
this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2023
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Somebody targeted me with a mass downvoting of all my comments. It lasted about a day, then they ran out of steam.
I donβt know if Lemmy has mechanisms to stop it. Probably more difficult with the federated instance.
It sucks that someone can effectively block your voice with an across-the-board suppression. I had a reddit account β my first one β ruined by such a thing. Back then, in 2010, every comment I made would drop to -2 or -3 immediately and it basically ruined the account, and it didnβt stop.
So itβs possible. Not sure what you can do to stop it.
Perhaps as long as Lemmy is incapable of detecting and preventing such patterns, you could use a bot to counteract the bot working against you. Something that detects downvote bombing and counteracts it when itβs happening.
I spent over a decade on reddit, and I learned that whenever someone did stuff like that, it was because I had struck a chord. And they usually got bored of their harassment pretty quickly when I ignored them.
Not quite as bad as Reddit I once said I had A Huawei phone and liked it there and I was forced to delete the comment because of downvoted.
Classic case of daring to speak your own opinion against the hive.
You weren't forced to delete it, you deleted it due to cowardice and unwillingness to stand by your statement.
I was at about -60 or so 30 min In, it would have ruined my karma completely to let it keep existing.
On Reddit people only see see the downvote and jump on. There's no chance of people giving it even a read they just join the swarm.
Which posts are you thinking of? I looked at your history, only one post appears to be in the negative, and that's in c/support which to me suggests you might be posting an already discussed problem.
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Consciousness is wild. I'm pretty sure I can feel all of you in my head, for sure.
100% there's a hivemind. That's why I joined lemmy.one, downvotes are disabled to try and stop hivemind downvotings and encourage discussion. On local communities it works well, if only more of the bigger federations disabled them too.
I don't see the point of voting on online content, and just ignore the feature entirely. My brain automatically edits out the voting buttons and results. I don't even see them!
Without offense intended... I didn't come here for your (or anyone's) approval. Other people's opinions have universally baffled me as a general rule (yours probably will too).
I came here to document my radical opinions about assembly language programming, post photos of stuff I build, occasionally help other people build stuff, and (of least concern) occasionally participate in conversation. I imagine very few people (other than myself) care about anything I have to say -- it's still a neat exercise to put it into words so I better define what I think.
So maybe people are downvoting you because they don't like you, or don't like what you write. Maybe they do it for no reason, or for fun. Maybe I don't like you, for an arbitrary or a good reason, or both. At some point I guess we just have to be comfortable with these things I guess and coexist here somehow. At least you can't pay money to a platform, to force me to read your opinions, I guess! That would be torture.
Anyway, no one actually needs to worry about me not liking them or username-stalking them. The depths of my indifference are fathomless, and eternal. To make me care about what you think is like bridging the void between the stars.
You are still affected by this. Upvoted posts and comments tend to show up earlier in your feed (except if you're sorting strictly by new). Some instances may even decide to auto-hide content below a certain threshold. So a politically motivated group or even just a person with a significant enough bot-army could manipulate post visibility and kinda soft-shadow-ban people they deem unfavorable.
OK, I'll give you that. I don't really use the whole feed thing often, and that didn't occur to me. It doesn't seem to be a problem so far, though.
If that changes, I'll write a Lemmy reader that strips out the democratic elements and just sorts by newest for me (if someone else doesn't do it first). Probably less work than managing an army of Lemmy bots. I wrote and manage just one -- a fortune teller that lives on my instance and does I-Ching readings.
Do other people use the feed a lot? I haven't really used social media prior to Lemmy. A lot of what people consider important comes off as a bit alien to me.