Context: PugJesus often spams low quality posts across the dozen or so communities they mod, apparently downvoting low effort spam on my frontpage is trolling. The only other action in the modlog is a different ban for 74 years for “Mass downvoting innocuous content,” so it definitely seems they are just banning people that dislike their spam. Glad we’re not missing out on the reddit mod experience here.
If you don’t post or comment in a community, why are you subscribed to it?
Do you know how many are lurkers on any given site? 90%
Much much much higher than that.
Probably. It’s just a rule of thumb. . Say 10% of people using the
siteplatform have an account and 10% of them post/comment.So more like 99% lurk.
On corporate social media sites, lurkers still provide (ad) revenue, but on Lemmy they are leeches. They use our community’s resources while contributing nothing.
Hard disagree. And that kind of talk will not lead to this place flourishing.
What does a flourishment of non-participants get us but increased hosting costs?
What if Wikipedia had that attitude?
I’m not, I was viewing all. Sorry, “my frontpage” is probably misleading, I meant the all page on my device.
Oh. Well, if you don’t want to see all, don’t go looking at all and then get upset when you see all.
That’s pretty ridiculous, obviously one can want to see an uncurated list while still judging the value of individual items, that’s not mutually exclusive.
Sure, you can totally do that… and also a mod can totally ban someone who mass-downvotes all the posts in a community (rather than simply block it or the submitters). Actually the ball is entirely in your court there to decide what you want to do.
You may accept that you are going to be banned from communities that it seems you have no interest in seeing anyway, or you can start blocking them so that they do not show up in your All feed.
“Block early, block often” is practically the motto of Lemmy.
why would you assume they are subscribed to it?
bc OP indicated that, saying “my frontpage” (emphasis added).
the frontpage also displays local and federated communities.
You missed the point. The word “My” implies the Subscribed feed, rather than “All”. At least that is the most straightforward interpretation, which explains why the person you responded to thought that.
that doesn’t imply that at all. other people might not filter their front page by subscribed communities. that’s just your assumption based upon what you personally do.
No, back when I used Lemmy I mostly used All. But then I did not call that “my” frontpage, unless I switched to Subscribed. Perhaps there is a language issue here, but the personal form of “my” implies a customization aspect, not the same shared set of posts that everyone sees across all of Lemmy (unless they block content, which OP seems not to).
Or at least it could imply that, which explains why the person you responded to might have thought that. There is a logical basis for doing so, I am saying.
Dude what is wrong with you? Debate pervert bullshit.