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.
Yeah, but maybe people want to downvote a community dedicated to a nazi?
Kanye is a hip-hop artist.
And Hitler was a vegan, Nazis tend to have hobbies.
And Nazi. Don’t play cute on me.
ok, lots of people have hobbies as well as their political opinions.
Or just, you know, subscribe to the coms that interest you, like everyone did on reddit.
I hate people who try to patronize downvoting so much.
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 if you don’t see those communities in All after a while it means the community members just stopped posting altogether, not that the community got hidden from you.
Blocking, yeah.
Thanks for clarifying!
Said Dumbfucks: “WHUUUT!?! DUWNVUTE DUWNVUTE!”
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?
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/instances I’m not interested in. It was a lot of work at first, but it’s pretty nice now.
So it doesn’t shows up on All
Ah right okay.
I only look at the ones I subscribed to myself. Different approach I guess.
Ye, i browse by All
New communities pop up, and older ones that didn’t have many posts sometimes get revived. So if I have the time and inclination I look at All after my Subscribed.
People actually use that one? I only ever look at the ones I’ve subscribed to.
After browsing through Subscribed/New I usually check out All/Top 12 hours and All/Active. If I still feel the need to doomscroll I might venture into All/New. My Subscribed list isn’t moving very fast…
Imagine downvoting on All
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kanye fan switches to lemmy
sees posts downvoted to oblivion
realizes he is not welcome, goes back to reddit.
Besides it affects sorting quality posts within the community. Not a problem currently since there’s not much activity on there now but still.
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.
Do that for enough groups, suddenly you have a much smaller community, and suddenly you’re basically just a new hexbear. You need a critical mass of diverse interests.
If it’s a kanye fan who cares? They can get bent.
You are the type of people for who I made this post. Just block it and move on. It is perfectly understandable that you do not like the things kanye has said, I don’t either. But I still like his music. I know it sounds cliche or cringe, but Kanye’s music was the only thing that I enjoyed during my worst times.
No, i block kanye subs and other subs that i don’t agree with or dislike the content. I just am sick and tired of every week someone complaining about downvotes.
Which one is the last week post complaining about this? It feels like it hasn’t been brought up for at least a month
I may have been spouting a bit of hyperbole but it sure seems like a once a week complaint.
I had to literally defederate lemmy.world and turn off downvotes on my instance to stop this bullshit. Then these fucking morons are like boo hoo why isn’t there any niche content on lemmy
Because you fucking idiots downvote anything niche and make it miserable to post. Enjoy reading about linux and Kamala Harris forever, reddit morons.
Enjoy reading about linux and Kamala Harris forever, reddit morons.
That escalated quickly
Also [email protected] for people looking for niche communities
Nice list of dead communities
That escalated quickly
That’s too much credit to the poster.
I’d say it went down the sewer quickly, rather.
Spoken like an extreme dullard
Agree. If you’re not interested in something, just block the community and don’t spam downvotes. It’s like intentionally showing up somewhere you don’t want to be just to “boooo” everything.
Steps in Tesseract:
- Click the community name in the post
- Click “Block Community” in the Community profile modal
And if you’re in the feed, any other posts to that community will magically disappear
Maybe take your own advice and also avoid dick moves like posting it on drama communities drawing trolls and harassment.
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.
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. [email protected] for anyone who wants to block and move on.
Ill federate it so i can downvote that antisemitism shithole as well.
Fuck that asshole.
Show me one antisemitic post from that community. You can’t cause there isn’t one.
Every post containing anything from mr. West. Wich is literal nazi.
Ye is not a nazi.
On December 1, the situation, somehow, worsened when Kanye appeared on The Alex Jones Show. Over the course of the broadcast, he repeatedly praised Hitler and the Nazi party, insisting that he “loves” Nazis and “likes” Hitler, and at one point blatantly declaring, “The Jewish media has made us feel like the Nazis and Hitler have never offered anything of value to the world.” His remarks placed Jones in the rare position of attempting to help Kanye walk back his extremism by reminding him that Nazis “did a lot of very bad things.”
“But they did good things, too,” Ye responded. “We’ve got to stop dissing the Nazis all of the time.”
That was in the morning. By evening, Ye had been indefinitely suspended from Twitter for posting an image of a Nazi swastika inside of a Star of David.
https://www.vox.com/culture/23400851/kanye-west-antisemitism-hitler-praise
This is a community centered around a literal actual Nazi, forgive me if I shed zero tears.
