edit: GUYS fuck stalin and fuck tankies, period. i understand that this community is more sensitive than most to pro-stalinist vibes, and i apologize for unintentionally twinging that nerve, but you need stop calling each other (and me) slurs

good heavens, happy new year, fuck incarceration and murder in all forms

(mods pls also do your job and help with the slurs thing)

edit2: big thank u 2 da mods for helping with the slurs thing u guys rock 😎 💕

  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
    56·
    11 months ago

    Why’s it at +157/-3 after 3hr:

    The US stat is so bad you easily believe it when attributed to stereotypical evil regime.

    Then you’re reminded that same evil thing is actually something the US is currently doing.

    I’m glad we don’t just kill everyone we arrest, I’m glad we’re not ruled by a dictator… still, I wish the average person viewing a meme weren’t able to easily believe something we do was actually done by someone we vaguely recall learning was the worst.

    • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      18·
      11 months ago

      Why’s it at +157/-3 after 3hr:

      Because blahaj.zone doesn’t count the downvotes. The -3 downvotes that you see are only those that are counted by the instance you’re viewing from (given out by the users of that instance only). Right now, on lemmy.world it has 28 downvotes, on dbzer0 it has 2.

      • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        11 months ago

        And -12 here now… interesting!

        Is Blahaj unique in that respect? Thus our instances likely sum all downvotes when posts are made to them?

        Thanks :)

        • RunawayFixer@lemmy.world
          7·
          11 months ago

          An interesting find that I didn’t know about, so to Google I went :)

          Apparently Lemmy communities can chose to disable downvotes. It’s apparently a simple setting, so Blahaj won’t be the only ones to have done so. Members of such a community are only able to upvote and will only see upvotes from other communities. And since that community server is responsible for syncing it’s own threads to other federated instances, it’s not going to collect the downvotes from the other Lemmy servers just to pass them on, so it only gathers + passes on upvotes. (If I understood it correctly)

          It also means that the few downvotes that we are seeing on Blahaj are not representative. Imo it might be better to disable downvoting for all, if the post was made on a server that doesn’t sync downvotes.