Names blurred to protect the innocent / crazy. Not trying to call anyone out, just thought the response was hilarious and highly disproportionate. Like, they distinguished that comment (green border/background).
For reference, the comment I presume that was downvoted that apparently triggered that response was to the tune of “BoTH SiDEz!!!” with some hyper generalizing / stereotyping on the side.
Because it buries all the posts on my instance, it makes it so that vegans who are the community and target for my instance gets silenced. Then whenever someone doesn’t like what they read they go and downvote every post on my instance depressing all the counts and discouraging participatio. Activitypub downvotes are pure spam.
Now that is an interesting idea. A timeline that ranks only by local votes
Yeah, with that, you’d be able to control who can vote on the posts your users see. Very useful for a totalitarian admin.
If you want it to be for vegans only then you should defederate tbh
The instance can also disable downvotes so that remote downvotes won’t matter and be invisible to local users.
I had similar experiences in the past, I get you.
Offensive material for this guy is pushing back to a user that said that “all my life people told me that democrats were coming for my guns, my food and my appliance but its the republicans all along” I replied “It is the democrats though, they’ve been in power 75% of the past 30 years and Americans lost their rights to bodily autonomy, have a right wing court and can’t get anything passed” and this is what got downvoted, this is what is so “offensive”.
When I got madder than I should have and protested being downvoted for participating in my own communities this guy feels the need to denigrate me and be dramatic. When I push back he pretends to be the bigger man, yet posts drama posts and makes fun of anyone different. The way he talks himself up while pissing on people makes me sick. What an asshole. Lemmy is filled with them. I wish people like this would just stay on Reddit.
To be honest I’m probably going to stop using Lemmy and cancel my servers, what is the point of talking with a bunch of white people in America who circlejerk about linux and support international wars as if its a game.