This is a user, not a community. They are downvoting across communities, including stalking people across communities to downvote all of their posts and comments, following communities just to downvote every post and comment, etc.
They downvote over 99% of the posts they see. Why seek out content you don’t like? It’s mildly infuriating. To me at least.
How you have voted for others
On other people’s stuff
Thanks. Fixed.
Mastodon reminds me when I do that, but I should remember on Lemmy too.
Personally, I agree (we would never do this in a large community for the record). But yes, there are people who think that they can “kill” a small community with downvotes because they don’t like the topic.
The sad thing is, it’s true. In a community where most posts have under 5 or so votes, one person coming in and systematically downvoting every post will keep people from seeing it who may be interested. If someone doesn’t like a topic, they can block the community, but when they take steps to prevent others from seeing it, that’s toxic. It’s bad for the health of the platform.
Nothing against downvoting in general, but some people are extremely toxic about it. I don’t get the point.
Please don’t do a witch hunt - it was censored for a reason. Sorry I didn’t do it thoroughly enough.
You have to select “user” and enter the format exactly as shown. There are some servers that don’t work though. Yours should.
Now that’s a shower thought! I love it.
True, I’m just looking at it linguistically. We’ve had a thing called “pizza” in continuous use since 997 according to Wikipedia (I was unable to locate the source cited, but I don’t think it’s a contentious issue, so Wikipedia is probably correct).
Weird thought - pizza dates to 997 CE, that’s over 500 years before tomatoes were introduced in Italy. Most of the existence of pizza has been without tomato.
Two powers wanted to build a politically favorable buffer zone, but it was the same buffer zone.
It can absolutely be local.
For podcasts I use AntennaPod, for news I use Feeder. Whatever your use case, there is probably a local, well-made FOSS option.
Nonlocal uses have additional capabilities, such as syncing across multiple devices. I also use gpodder.net for podcast syncing, although there are self-hosted options for this as well.
Yep. It’s the same reason everyone has to pay more for RAM now, even though consumers didn’t cause the shortage.
Naw, they’ll just declare bankruptcy and the municipalities will foot the bills for the infrastructure debt.
Basically, have you even seen the Simpsons monorail episode? It’s that.
The yacht crowd isn’t really concerned with national borders.
If someone were killed, you could be charged with murder because you’re taking actions that could reasonably result in death.
IANAL
Edit: Here are some real-world examples.
Meth manufacturing explosion leads to murder charges
Temple City man charged with murder in explosions that killed 5 at illegal cannabis labs
There are all sorts of additional charges that might be piled on, like reckless endangerment or child endangerment if there are any children in the immediate vicinity.
I think it’s fair to say not all AI is AI slop.