That is a great idea, only subscribers can vote, its elegant in its simplicity!

Never heard of sublinks, but I’ll do some research.

Right now I don’t think I’m dealing with anything super malicious just the standard:

That is a great idea, it does neatly solve the current problem

I suppose what I want is the api vocabulary to unsubscribe a user from a community without necessarily blocking them. The effect being this community wont show up in the downvoters all feed.

great point!

It could be gated behind participating in a community before you can downvote in the community, then there is some metabalance for the community itself (i.e. sock puppets would have to post content that passes muster with the moderators to get credit to downvote)

People who run instances can see the votes already, so we can automate some possible solutions now.

Thanks for the reference to the previous discussion, I had no idea.

One possible response to this would be a slashdot style system where you only get a few downvotes randomly assigned in a interval, so you have to be choosy with them.

My personal view - its a net negative,

for the community itself. It is a chilling effect, discouraging people from posting. Yes the votes don’t matter, but they are a social signal, and people (especially infrequent posters) can be hyper sensitive to that.

For Lemmy as a whole, I think its also a net negative, people only participating to rain on other peoples parade isn’t driving engagement (see above), but it means their feed is filled with posts they don’t like, reducing the quality and interaction of their experience.

Possible Solutions:

1. Ability to voluntarily unlist from the ALL feed for niche communities.

2. Moderation bot that looks at strictly negative interactions in a community and help those users “block” the community. i.e. someone who never posts comments, or ever finds anything positive in the community.

Thoughts @[email protected] ?

Context - Right now I moderate two communities that are basically my personal journals, since they are so niche and don’t really get alot of interaction, but… it is lots of content for lemmy which I think is a net positive for the platform.

This is just a fancy digital extortion service. Charge a fee to remove inconvenient data

If you can tolerate it bone conduction headphones are a option too! But they don’t have the same rich soundscape, but variety is good!

Yeah depending on long long you need to wear a headset is a important factor!

– Update –

I swear I wrote how long, but I clearly typed long long… thats crazy.

Now I’m really confused; The desire to build and raise a family is part of the asexual spectrum? That, to my uneducated lay, perspective feels like a very sexual activity (not as in the act of sex, but sexual in terms of reproductive roles and duties and desires).

I hope your able to find good people in your local area that you can spend time with, and hopefully someone to click with. Opening this discussion about having too high standards and then moving the conversation into being lonely tells me you have options, but your not happy with the options. Come to peace with the people around you and don’t be lonely anymore.

Open backed headphones will vent your ears, and they have a richer soundscape

You have a large buffet of friends to choose from… and one sad reality in couples is one of them will “leave” first, so handling change is just part of life.

If you identify as asexual then why are you upset with partner selection?

Maybe disappointed his guess was wrong?

its super effective!

Buying stuff with cash is explicitly illegal now?

Except that time he tortured and killed a innocent guy and felt bad for all of 3 minutes.

If your desired population doesn’t respond to your social or financial status - you need to keep improving it.

Don’t spend so much time online, spend time with real people. Evolution isn’t a static thing, your designed to maximize your local situation; Don’t let social media, porn, television set your standards.

Sounds like you have internalized body dysphoria for other people… like the guy who falls in love with his Manga characters and nobody in real life can measure up.