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Cake day: September 27th, 2023

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  • Yea - but that rule can only be enforced by proactive mod monitoring so it’s difficult to actually call out violations for.

    If you ever see comments like “Gosh I hate this poster” please do report them…but if they just vote and move on it’s difficult to know why they voted.

    Lemmy doesn’t really have good anti-brigading mod tools yet (or, at least, I’m unaware of them)… you can see this in places like c/conservative where absolutely every post and comment is downvoted to oblivion by people who think they’re helping change people’s minds… I’m personally not a fan of conservatives but brigading is just fucking dumb and annoying.





  • I’m fine ignoring it - but my concern stems from the affect of mass downvotes on the visibility of interesting articles. I know that a fair few lemmy users absolutely love targeting OP in particular, which is disappointing but, hell, the world’s pretty disappointing right now. When it’s just downvoting comments then whatever… but downvoting posts lowers what most users see.





  • This article completely misses the mass radicalization young men have been exposed to through the internet. Growing up inundated by quotes from Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson can really fuck you up.

    We absolutely must address how dangerous the internet is to our society. I think we as a species simply can’t handle the destructive potential of the internet (and ditto for News bubbles like Fox).

    I think we’ve designed an environment that works assuming everyone is a rational person who can separate bullshit from real information and, unfortunately, a lot of people (young and adults) simply do not meet that requirement or don’t have the inclination to do so.