Yeah, I am just speaking as a general principle - not whatever happened here. Mass downvoting isn’t at all observed like that anyway. It’s the behaviour from some individual accounts that repeatedly downvote different threads from a specific community. So you’d be looking at habits across threads.

If in my community (for instance) someone was to come in and just downvote the entire first page, I’d probably ban them because that would just be a crude attempt to target it. And again: downvoting like that is worse for smaller communities trying to grow.

Anyone banning for downvoting is incredibly petty or thin skinned, just my observation. If it wasn’t for the instance shutting down, it would have made a good post on yptb. Reading other comment threads on this post support the thin skinned theory imho. I just happened to be browsing all when I found the post. Looking at my subs, I wasn’t subscribed to any community there.

What about in the context of mass-downvoters? I can’t speak for Dubvee, but mass-downvoters do exist - and they can be corrosive for smaller communities trying to grow, as early downvotes of threads can effectively kill them. These are accounts that seem to primarily downvote and don’t actually interact on-site, and have no real pattern to it. This kind of response has little to do with sensitivity.

I already posted a news article on this lol, but like 20 minutes ago. I’ll remove mine and keep yours up for poster variety.

Otherwise, Twisted Metal is coming out at the end of the month.

There’s already one (1920s-1930s Weimar)

Babylon Berlin.

On the one hand, this is one of the most interesting historical time period and places of the modern era.

On the other hand, we have Babylon Berlin - and its authentically German.

No idea, but it’s not an active instance so idk what happened.

There’s two factors to this. Lemmy has been slow on developing new features. Eventually people give up despite all the promises. This sort of competition was inevitable, and two - and this cannot be changed - there’s a lot of resentment and resistance to using their software for political reasons.

Tbf Idk what you imagine Lemmy can somehow do to entice new people