Submitted 4 weeks ago by Voltage@lemmy.dbzer0.com to fediverse@lemmy.world
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I have made a step-by-step guide so you dumb fucks can follow.
click on your username in the top right corner
Go to “Settings” and then switch to the “Blocks” tab
Type in the name of the community you want to block
Save your changes. That’s it! See it wasn’t so hard.
It’s even easier to simply visit the community, if you aren’t subscribed you get a big nice block button in the sidebar.
Damn this is way easier. !kanyewest@lemmy.world for anyone who wants to block and move on.
This is a community centered around a literal actual Nazi, forgive me if I shed zero tears.
Ill federate it so i can downvote that antisemitism shithole as well.
Fuck that asshole.
I hate people who try to patronize downvoting so much.
Enjoy reading about linux and Kamala Harris forever, reddit morons.
That escalated quickly
Also !newcommunities@lemmy.world for people looking for niche communities
That escalated quickly
That’s too much credit to the poster.
I’d say it went down the sewer quickly, rather.
Yeah, but maybe people want to downvote a community dedicated to a nazi?
Kanye is a hip-hop artist.
ok, lots of people have hobbies as well as their political opinions.
And Hitler was a vegan, Nazis tend to have hobbies.
And Nazi. Don’t play cute on me.
Lemmitors can’t resist downvoting.
Lemmicels seething rn
I have downvoting disabled anyway but it sucks that others are influenced by it.
I think there are a lot of people on Lemmy trying to turn public spaces into their private space, or shape communities into what they want instead of fostering a new one from the ground up.
It’s dead simple to start an instance or even a community on an instance that aligns with how people feel. Somehow instead we’ve defaulted to projecting negativity, which inhibits growth. Lemmy can be better.
Imagine downvoting on All
Putting the tone aside, I usually browse the All tab for that reason, and also because subscribing in Lemmy is weirder than it was on Kbin (even if it doesn’t crash the page like Kbin did). Nothing personal against the communities, and sure, it’s an exercise on patience, but after some time, the results become noticeable as my feed gets fine-tuned into what I want to see.
Nothing personal against the communities, and sure, it’s an exercise on patience, but after some time, the results become noticeable as my feed gets fine-tuned into what I want to see.
Do you mean downvoting or blocking the communities? There is no feed fine-tuning based on downvotes on Lemmy, so you don’t see those communities in All after a while it means the community members just stopped posting altogether, not that it got hidden from you.
Or just, you know, subscribe to the coms that interest you, like everyone did on reddit.
Forgive me if I’m a bit of a thicky, but why is there a need to block communities? Doesn’t simply ignoring them work?
So it doesn’t shows up on All
People actually use that one? I only ever look at the ones I’ve subscribed to.
Ah right okay.
I only look at the ones I subscribed to myself. Different approach I guess.
Time and screen space are limited. When I take a poo break, I don’t want to have to wade through a bunch of posts in a language I don’t speak or about sports I care nothing about. But at the same time I am open to new communities that I might not have imagined even existed. So I just leave it on all and block the communities I’m not interested in. It was a lot of work at first, but it’s pretty nice now.
teft@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Downvotes don’t matter. They mean nothing. A downvote only hurts your pride. Ignore them and move on. Asking about them and trying to figure out why people downvote is a path to madness.
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 4 weeks ago
It’s hard to build a community when you get random downvote out of nowhere without explanation. You might have easy time to ignore it, but not everyone does.
Voltage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
this is what i was meaning to say. it does not look nice on the community page when every post is downvoted to oblivion. something the “downvotes don’t matter on lemmy” crowd just doesn’t understand.
Voltage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Besides it affects sorting quality posts within the community. Not a problem currently since there’s not much activity on there now but still.
teft@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
If it’s a kanye fan who cares? They can get bent. For everyone else it doesn’t matter. Downvotes are at most a few votes out of 50-100 or more. It’s like getting mad at a party because 99 people loved the party but one guy hated the color of the cake and wrote you a letter about it.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
What’s weird is it’s always the accounts with no activity making these complaints…
Including this thread, OP has made 4 posts and 20 some comments over the last year.
FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 4 weeks ago
How motivating do you think it is to post to smaller communities just to get an unrepresentative number of downvoters right off the bat? I can’t speak for OP but I’m sure there are plenty that don’t post or reply at all because of it.
I think at its core downvoting can be fine but on smaller platforms it’s easily abused as a form of content suppression, bullying, etc. Lemmy seems to be particularly prone to account hopping downvote spam, which sucks but it is what it is.
Thankfully Lemmy is flexible enough to create what you want more privately if one is so inclined. I’m smoking weed about it.
ademir@lemmy.eco.br 4 weeks ago
of course they matter, otherwise they wouldn’t exist. Think for a second before answering non-sense.
There is a reason this type of platform has a voting system.