Decentralization blunts a lot of what individual self-important admins can censor. Communities that aren’t constantly harassing their moderators and moderators who aren’t banning people tend to flourish relative to those that are endlessly squabbling and strangling one another.
We’ve already seen a number of Lemmy instances fail when their user base grew too toxic. And we’ve seen new instances take off by being release valves for individuals who want to form communities uninhibited by bullshit.
Unlikely. It’s one guy running multiple comms. I got similar treatment. Then I think the guy who runs piefed has me blocked as a Tankie across all of his new instances.
So I’ve doubled you up.
Not going to lose sleep over it. There’s still plenty of content to enjoy.
that’s what I figured 😁 I went and added the mods of those comms to my own block lists so none us will bother eachother. there is a lot of really nice fediverse to see so it’s nbd.
but I’m definitely tagging you as TURBO TANKIE BLOCK COCKER
It’s extra funny because you got downvoted. People don’t realize you can get banned here just for voting in a way they don’t like, and not even on a post in that particular community that banned you.
I’m not the person you responded to but, I also run with down-votes disabled. I found that paying attention to them was negatively impacting the platform and creating an echo chamber based off populous opinion. Since turning them off, my experience on the platform has been quite a bit more enjoyable. It’s not that I really have a mentality that is different than what the populous opinion is but, I much prefer not seeing them as it removes the potential of “oh this post has been downvoted” because that makes you go into reading it with an already poisoned mindset.
I totally understand where this is coming from but I started on an instance that doesn’t have down votes and moved to a different one because I wanted to see when I’m downvoted. More often than not it is because I was misunderstood and even if not, I want to know where I am. I remember a discussion where I later realized I was heavily downvoted and would have “read the room” better if I knew (time proved me right after all but I digress)
I can definitely understand that as well. I rely on someone replying to the comment if I say something that is unclear or misinterpreted. It allows me to have better feedback anyway then trying to figure out where I went wrong on my own, plus it avoids being able to dismiss it as “well maybe it was just a unpopular opinion so it was downvoted”. I also find effort a huge factor as well, meaning that if someone went through the hassle/effort of responding to my comment then chances are it’s not an opinion type deal and more of either I wasn’t clear or there was a misunderstanding. (when the reply is opposing of course)
I first thought you equated being down voted with being banned but your point was that being banned for down votes illustrate your point that Lemmy isn’t better than reddit.
As if Lemmy was any better.
Great thing about Lemmy is you can’t get banned from the whole thing because you pissed off a single touchy admin.
Also ban evasion is easier if it does happen.
That’s true, but you easily get ostracized for trivialities.
Decentralization blunts a lot of what individual self-important admins can censor. Communities that aren’t constantly harassing their moderators and moderators who aren’t banning people tend to flourish relative to those that are endlessly squabbling and strangling one another.
We’ve already seen a number of Lemmy instances fail when their user base grew too toxic. And we’ve seen new instances take off by being release valves for individuals who want to form communities uninhibited by bullshit.
I got a 30 comm multiban for saying “Winnie the Pooh” 😀 that’s gotta be like, a kill-streak or something right?
Unlikely. It’s one guy running multiple comms. I got similar treatment. Then I think the guy who runs piefed has me blocked as a Tankie across all of his new instances.
So I’ve doubled you up.
Not going to lose sleep over it. There’s still plenty of content to enjoy.
that’s what I figured 😁 I went and added the mods of those comms to my own block lists so none us will bother eachother. there is a lot of really nice fediverse to see so it’s nbd.
but I’m definitely tagging you as TURBO TANKIE BLOCK COCKER
Tough but fair
Well, at least for now Lemmy hasn’t reached the level of Reddit, that’s good, that’s already a divine miracle.
Well, just because it has 0.000000001% of reddit’s audience. People is equally shitty here as on reddit.
It’s extra funny because you got downvoted. People don’t realize you can get banned here just for voting in a way they don’t like, and not even on a post in that particular community that banned you.
The donwotes you mention (and that I can’t see, because I disabled them in settings) perfectly demonstrate my point.
I was hopeful some form of reddiquette would be revived here but that lasted about 3 months past the API changes.
How so? Are you a free speech absolutist who feels threatened when other people use their freedom of speech?
I’m not the person you responded to but, I also run with down-votes disabled. I found that paying attention to them was negatively impacting the platform and creating an echo chamber based off populous opinion. Since turning them off, my experience on the platform has been quite a bit more enjoyable. It’s not that I really have a mentality that is different than what the populous opinion is but, I much prefer not seeing them as it removes the potential of “oh this post has been downvoted” because that makes you go into reading it with an already poisoned mindset.
I totally understand where this is coming from but I started on an instance that doesn’t have down votes and moved to a different one because I wanted to see when I’m downvoted. More often than not it is because I was misunderstood and even if not, I want to know where I am. I remember a discussion where I later realized I was heavily downvoted and would have “read the room” better if I knew (time proved me right after all but I digress)
I can definitely understand that as well. I rely on someone replying to the comment if I say something that is unclear or misinterpreted. It allows me to have better feedback anyway then trying to figure out where I went wrong on my own, plus it avoids being able to dismiss it as “well maybe it was just a unpopular opinion so it was downvoted”. I also find effort a huge factor as well, meaning that if someone went through the hassle/effort of responding to my comment then chances are it’s not an opinion type deal and more of either I wasn’t clear or there was a misunderstanding. (when the reply is opposing of course)
Are you equating votes to speech? To me votes are the opposite of that. They are just a lazy shortcut.
That said, you can use your freedom of speech with me at your will. Until I find you boring enough to just silence you (aka, block).
So what is your point? What makes downvotes so bad?
Can’t you read?
I first thought you equated being down voted with being banned but your point was that being banned for down votes illustrate your point that Lemmy isn’t better than reddit.
Exactly. At the end of the day, “unpopular” opinions just get silenced, even if harmless (if you aren’t on some unpopularopinon sub, of course).