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This is not a new issue, but we've had reports from some communities that they are experiencing a lot of repeated downvotes from the same set of people.

This is how it typically plays out, using AI images as an example:

1. A section of the lemmy user base really hates anything AI generated.
2. Instead of blocking AI generated image communities, they down vote those posts every time they see them.
3. The posts in those communities effectively have to overcome a "handicap" of down votes each time they are posted. This harms community growth and discoverability.

The admin team would like to know how our community would like us to handle this issue, since it isn't clear to us what is the best approach, and we would like a consensus view.

Some option for consideration:

1. Encourage/allow community mods to ban persistent down voters from their community (note that we currently have no specific rule in place for this, so it is currently allowed).

• Pros: prevents future down votes; essentially "unsubscribes" from the community on their behalf
• Cons: could potentially be abused by mods who want to eliminate all down voters and "game" the system

2. Have a policy of ignoring the persistent down voters

• Pros: allows people to continue to express their dislike of [insert topic]-type posts
• Cons: means that communities on topics that are not of interest to (or are actively disliked by) the majority of users will continue to be penalized in the lemmy post feeds.

3. Leave it up to the discretion of the individual community mods

• Pros: self-determination and community based approach (i.e. only applied when needed)
• Cons: potentially inconsistent approach to down voters across the instance

Feel free to come up with more options, but these are the three main alternatives I could come up with.

We are interested to get your thoughts on the topic so we can come up with a policy for the instance. Please leave your comments below on your preferred option and the reasons for your choice.

Edit: apparently community mods can't currently see the voting breakdown in Lemmy, only instance admins can, so this adds further complexity to the issue.

One of our hosts is doing some router maintenance which affects some components of this instance. As such expect downtime in the following range:

• Start: 2024-11-08 03:30 UTC+0
• Estimated end: 2024-11-08 05:30 UTC+0

Hey peeps, let's have a chat.

Do you have anything that you would like to see improved around the divisions by zero? I'm always up for enhancements I could implement. I can't change the lemmy source, but I can do plugins and other hacks.

You can mention anything, from tech stuff, to softer social stuff.

since the slow loading issues were resolved: using the default browser UI — every time i open dbzer0 in a new tab in Firefox — the page will appear as if i'm signed out.

i can fix this by hard refreshing, except on /posts. if i open a /post in a tab where i appear signed in, it loads correctly.

sometimes this happens on the subscribed feed page, where i seem signed out but i see someone else's subscriptions, but with my votes indicated. when i'm stuck like this, /unread_count is still polled for my account.

this doesn't happen to me on other instances.

Hey everyone, I have been forced to disable the mlmym frontent which you would have reached from old. and mlmym. simulating the old reddit interface. Something has been broken in it for the past months and it's been causing me headaches. My inquiries to the developers have gone unanswered.

I will consider re-adding it when issues are resolved.

Just wondering if it would be possible to enable the instance on LemmyFederate since then we could more easily distribute communities from here to elsewhere since as it is it's kind of hard to grow communities or even just have them be discoverable on other instances.

Uh for those who don't know LemmyFederate is a service that allows communities to be distributed to other instances via a bot that subscribes to them, then unsubscribes once a real user joins. It's helpful because communities don't become visible on remote servers until someone from that server searches and subscribes to it. Due to a limitation of how the Activitypub system works.

I regularly post images to lemmy.world communities but that instance also regularly seemingly fails to actually federate the post on their side.

What do I do when this happens? I can easily tell when it happens, because I can just look at my websites log and see that it isn't being spammed by lemmy requests.

Do I delete it and repost it later?

Does it eventually sort itself out?

Something third entirely?

One example is this post, which does not (at time of posting) exist on lemmy.world https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/27691379

We saw a sudden influx of new account applications recently, so we were collectively wondering if any specific event brought you all here, or it was just a coincidink.

In any case, welcome!

Dbzer0 is working perfectly for me for the first time in nearly a month. Did something change or was it a me problem?

Hi, i didn't find anything using the search, so i just wanted to know if any issues are known causing those error messages, which need a few reloads to resolve; additionally, voting on an post often takes 2, sometimes 5 or more tries.

i already tried:

• logged in/out
• with my VPN(Mullvad, on by default) and without
• Firefox / Vivaldi / Edge
• wired / wireless

and before i get into the weeds with the abyssmal support of my ISP i wanted to know if any of you have encountered the same issues.

I'm not sure if this is the issue.

I've tried other accounts on eternity and they seem to work fine.

I've used a jerboa for this account and still seem to be slow. The reason I'm not sure if this is an issue is bc it isn't always slow, everything seems to be working just fine. But very slowly.

Am I the only one?

Many newer Lemmy users still don't know they can block users, communities, and even whole instances they may not want to see in their feed or interact with.

This is a very basic guide to doing this on lemmy.dbzer0.com using the default web UI.

1. Open your profile Settings page:

2. Switch from the Settings tab to the Blocks tab

3. From this page you can block by User, Instance, or Community

That's all there is to it.

Edit: No offense to [email protected] for appearing in my community block list. It's just there as a (hopefully) inoffensive example.

The past few days I've noticed occasionally dbzer0 loads extremely slowly, or even hits a gateway timeout.

Is it just me or is the instance having some trouble keeping up?

Seems like it's only the front-end that has trouble loading, as I could still navigate next pages just fine while a different tab was busy timing out on load.

Also another thing I noticed is sometimes while it's still loading, the title of the page will be about a different post altogether. Not sure if that's related, sounds like just a caching issue to me.

Preface: Love this instance, happy to be here and this isnt a complaint just an observation.

OK so I mod a few communities across several instances, big and small. 3 on this very instance, I have noticed a pattern that posts on this instance tend to get a consistent early downvote count.

This might be my bad observations or the type of posts I see so I'd love to hear if anyone else has noticed the same.

Continued from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/24026515

Oof, what a journey this was. It took us a while to finally reach the Void. We had to fight and finally compromise with the trans flag folk who thought we were vandalizing when we were trying to pass through, then our planned path ended up being blocked by the massive English flag which setup shop in the middle forcing us to take the long way around, then we took a little detour to setup a naval battle and show England who's boss, at which point some cheeky Spanish bastard, stepped in and stole our ship's pirate flag. Then as we finally were nearing the Void, a cat butler (catler?) and yet another flag manifested and...

...well long story short, by the time we reached the Void, let's just say it's not anymore what it used to be, we touched one of its tendrils and it started popping leaves, so we left it at that!

I'm now focused on thickening the Haidra tendril to at least 2 pixels everywhere, and once that's done I'm starting a new path towards the bottom left to see what else we can touch.

Join me, or start your own journeys and remember to spread our pirate ships wherever we go!

PS: Thanks to @[email protected] for the rubber duckie on the factorio cog. Very cute!

Continued from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/23970292

Great job mates on touching the piracy banner made by @[email protected]. I planted another little pirate ship on top of it (feel free to improve the scene).

I have a new quest and a sidequest for y'all now.

First, let's go touch tendrils with the void and plant a pirate ship on it as well. Optimally I'd like to see a little tendril helix develop.

Sidequest: the Factorio gear now has a nice little "lake" where we've passed. Anyone up to drawing a little rubber duckie in there?

Continued from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/23924353

I started the little pixel ship yesterday on top of the haidra extremity, and today I found out it encountered a kraken. Well done to @[email protected] for adding that.

In other news, we managed to touch the center of the board, and now the canvas has extended, so it's time to move to the other side as well

I would like to try and get a tentacle going up from the right, to touch the piracy banner @[email protected] created! Feel free to add more doodads on the line as well! Likewise, if you have ideas about how the haidra should behave, just go ahead and do it, this is a bottom-up design and I love to see how it extends organically as well.

I cannot subscribe to many communities from feddit.org (especially newer ones), both in raccoonforlemmy and on lemmy.dbzer0.com (lemmy-web).

Has anyone else similar problems?

Re: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/23907738

We got a cute little garden in the process too!

Next objective, start drawing a 2 pixel line from our central head towards towards the center where the void and the pony rays meet. I want us to be the fourth connection.

Do not overwrite other creations and feel free to curve around like a tentacle as needed.

As always if you feel there's any improvements you can make on the centrale logo pixel wise, let us know. I would love a little pirate ship somewhere.

Just checking if any in our instance want to organize something for our presence, feel free to do it in this comm .

Trying to login with the MLMYM interface just goes to a blank screen for me. Is anybody else having issues with it? Is there anything I can do to get it working?

Edit: I have no idea why a simple help post is getting this many upvotes / downvotes

Firefox latest on Android 14, web front-end

Images seem to work fine now after the 19.4 upgrade.
Except when posting images via direct upload. I've tried to post an image with body description a couple times now to another community and as soon as I hit submit, it just instantly removes the image and doesn't post anything, leaving me on the create post page.

Edit: Pretty sure this is a front end bug as I had to hit submit twice to make this post. When you hit submit it jumps to the top of the page first.