Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts.

• Blaze@lazysoci.al ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Problem is: Lemmy’s algorithm is shit and doesn’t learn from our preferences. If it did, we would see less posts that we dislike

  Piefed has keyword filters that can help with that issue.

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  • Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Keywords filters are really basic. Most people don’t want to bother with that, or risk hiding interesting posts

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    • Blaze@lazysoci.al ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I filtered “musk”, “trump”, reduced the amount of US politics post tremendously

      I might add “kirk” at some point, depending how much it’s still discussed in the coming weeks

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• Skavau@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That probably wouldn’t and would obviously be vote manipulation. This situation is pretty rare and is ignored, like on YouTube, because people get bored and most people wont go out of their way to do this

  Absolutely, it is rare. But people do it. As I've said before, I banned 5 people on the original !television@lemm.ee instance for just downvoting posts repeatedly. No pattern. None of the accounts were active on the community n terms of posting. Some of the accounts had never even posted on the fediverse - they were simply downvote accounts that purely existed to vote negatively on content.

  Problem is: Lemmy's algorithm is shit and doesn’t learn from our preferences. If it did, we would see less posts that we dislike

  Piefed has much more control here. People can easily just block communities though.

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