Harassed off the platform

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Cake day: October 4th, 2023

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  • Unless you live in the native original range for cats, and your local region has zero automobiles, and you have no issue paying vet bills for random illness or parasite infections, then sure. Its probably not that big a risk to let your cat out unsupervised.

    Brits are very arrogantly incorrect about their cat care. They are driving local wildcats extinct, and feeding their pets to local foxes, badgers, and car wheels.

    You can still supplement outdoor time for your cat tho. Harness/leash training isnt too difficult, just go in areas you dont expect dog walkers. And you can also build catios, outdoor spaces that are fenced in.







  • The reddit design is that popularity is the end all determinant of quality content. If you didnt want that, you shouldnt be using a reddit clone.

    Thats why there are subreddits, that you can make whenever you like. So you can make a little pocket for the people who agree with your content.

    Obviously things get downvoted because people disagree with it, that is how it was designed to work. That is the function of this type of social media. The quality is inherently tied to if it is something the community agrees with.

    This complaint makes genuinely no sense. People upvote things they agree with, and downvote what they dont. Acting like thats some big shock is insane. Acting like thats some evil hidden use of downvotes means you dont understand the website youre posting on.


  • It inhibits your instance from filtering content at all, and prevents your instance-native content from self filtering before reaching larger feeds.

    It also demolishes your ability to natively deal with problem comments without mod or admin intervention, which adds more work to moderation while also making power mods more powerful.

    Lemmy is aping the reddit design, which has downvotes built into how the design inherently filters content. Removing the user driven content filter without redesigning the way the site works usually just makes problems. Like if mastodon removed retweets, or something.

    The analogy isnt perfect, but its like a go cart without breaks. Normally, anyone can tap the gas or break pedal once each, to speed up or slow down a post or comment. A shitty go cart (both shit as in poor quality and shit as in bad/bigoted/counter community) gets its break slammed by multiple people, and stops in its tracks. Great stuff gets the gas slammed and flies forward.

    But without the break, users cant slow anything down, just hope no one else speeds it up or that it gets pulled from the track. This makes brigades easier, absent mods more noticable, and bad faith mods harder to push back against from the community.

    These issues only really metasticize if a larger percent of instances block downvotes. But it will hamper content coming out of bahaj if the instance population starts to really grow.