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Thanks for coming here and providing your PoV.
After reading the comments on YPTB I can only say this: the f is wrong with some people… I must be living in some bubble where people can have sane reasonable discussion even if they disagree.
I understand you are trying to build communities and defend them against users with ill-intent. I don’t know what your ambitions are as far as the target size of these communities goes, but I just thought that banning users like described simply sends a bad message and, unfortunately, brings unnecessary attention to your person (especially if user does not agree or understands a reason for a ban). Forgive me for inadvertently being a part of the problem.
On the other hand, if you are right that some users made it a hobby out of downvoting all posts from your community and we both want to provide a space for it on Lemmy (on any instance), then this potentially calls for some software feature? Like joinable, discoverable but semi-private communities that don’t appear on "all" with limited voting and posting rights for non-members? I don’t know - you tell me what would be your dream scenario! But definitively I don’t believe you can have it both ways, be totally open and not exposed, especially for controversial themes.
Lastly, allow me to address you as a person. Please don’t understand me wrong as my wording might upset you but I really mean good for you. If you are going through some hardships in your life - don’t ever let the trolls see you are vulnerable. In general, the social media, be it federated or corporate, is not a good place to seek support or publicly confess intimate details of your life. If you really have to because you find that helpful, at least make a second account not used for moderation. Don’t feed the trolls.
Love.
P.S. - you can probably unban me if you are not mad at me, I promise to behave ;)
Where is this bubble? I wanna be in that bubble!
~~In lemmyverse? This thread seems to be one? :) everyone looks to be respectful so far.~~
Other than that the communities I subscribe to…
it really caught me off guard when I saw comments directly attacking Mystic without even addressing the question, I was not prepared for this shit! Like if there was some history that I missed and I just relit an old flamewar or something
EDIT: yeah I just scrolled down… nevermind my first part of this message
It's so strange to me that I'm fairly hated and some people permaban me on sight, but then I see comments like, "Fuck you stupid alcoholic vodka baby. I bet you’re a russian troll, they love Vodka over there. Also quit pretending to be a woman no one buys this sympathy act that you’re “transgender” by a now just-banned member, @SlipperySlime838585@sh.itjust.works.
I'm floored. Who in their right mind makes fun of recovering alcoholics and mixes it with transphobia in the same fucking comment?
People act like I’m destroying Lemmy just because I post links to news articles they don’t like, meanwhile, there’s garbage like that being said all over the place?
Compared to the homophobic, transphobic, and flat-out hateful words I’ve seen on Lemmy lately, my posts are like reading preschool stories in a padded nursery while the rest of the site sets itself on fire and screams the most hateful slurs ever through a bullhorn.
This place is going down fast.
So yeah, I need to stay in your bubble. I thought I was doing that, but I gotta try harder.
Thank you for your response. I do agree that banning people en masse can have a negative impact in how people see me, and I don't exactly like it even though I do it a lot. But I do it because at the moment Lemmy doesn't have any other options to ameliorate the mass downvoting that my AI communities receive and they would be in the high negatives by now being seen and enjoyed by no one if I didn't try to do something.
Yeah I agree with that last part, it's not good to let people see vulnerability. I don't know about having a second account I'm bad at managing two accounts especially since I don't use any fancy Lemmy apps, just the browser and my phone with a PWA thing so having more than one account would be a pain and I would probably forget. Also I feel like people would identify my alt anyway from my history here since I would still vent just as much there about the things I've already vented about. I already do try my best by not interacting much with them or simply reporting them. Though Lemmy is my only social media since I cut everything else off a while ago so it's hard to do anything beyond not responding to and simply reporting trolls.
Not as much as youd think. Especially if you put your venting account on another home server.
The combination might be a little rare, but users dont typically use advanced fingerprinting methods here, and it's not totally implausible there's more than one person who roughly matches your identity+fuckedness profile, especially if you use the more common/generic they/them pronouns on the alt, phase certain issues into ranting abt them on the alt from this one, etc.
Even on your phone, you could add another lemmy app with different credentials.
Oh I wasn't thinking that deeply that server admins would identify me through advanced methods I was thinking more that regular users including the trolls from fuck_AI would identify me through my behavior and the things I talk about. Since I already talked about them here.
Like i said, users.
Fancy writing style analysis is not something people are gonna do.
Youd need to be either a serious slightly analyst flavored lit-fucker or use (and this is a rare actual (but evil) use case) your precious LLM's. The former is vanishingly rare in yhese parts (at least as users), the latter i wouldn't expect your exact threat profile to just use fucking reflexively.
You're fine. Maybe clean up your writing style if you want to be extra sure.