• Rose56@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Do tell us!(Including me, when possible) But no guys, keep posting USA political news, political memes, what Trump said and downvote any athletic, music and ASMR post just because it’s not about USA or political, and then complain how niche communities are dead.
    Don’t forget to downvote this comment too, it’s not political.

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      23 hours ago

      People should just block communities they don’t care about instead of downvoting posts from those communities in the all feed.

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        23 hours ago

        That’s a good example! I have done so with almost all USA political communities, and now when I browser all I discover more stuff.

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      1 day ago

      Are people really suppressing posts on niche communities like this? I almost exclusively sort by post age or engagement rather than votes, and I’m on an instance that doesn’t support downvoting. Downvoting isn’t something I’ve thought about since my Reddit days.

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        24 hours ago

        Always speaking from my point of view and what I have seen during my time on Lemmy. I have see many posts about niche communities being dead, and I seen lots of posts getting downvoted right away, including my posts. Users wanted to a change from Reddit, yet they replacate it.

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          23 hours ago

          Downvotes are almost never used correctly. People think if something isn’t for them, it deserves a downvote. An inevitable bit of Reddit culture that comes with that user base jumping ship. Nonetheless, it could only cause the death of a community if the people in that community don’t choose to spend time there.

          When I browse my subscriptions, it doesn’t matter if the posts I want to see score too low on the vote scale to be discoverable in All. I’m going to see them, because they’re what I came to see. I went looking for those communities, and curated my own feed. I think if more people went looking for stuff they want to see instead of letting their client show them whatever is doing well on votes, the votes wouldn’t matter nearly as much.