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Cake day: June 24th, 2023
  • lobster_fowl@lemmynsfw.comtoLemmy NSFW@lemmynsfw.com•Some updates about Lemmy NSFWEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I struggle with downvotes for my tastes vs the communal good.

    If I’m scrolling through gonewild and I see a post from a gender I’m not into, do I downvote because I don’t like it?

    No, because that punishes someone else (who’s putting themselves out there and contributing) for my tastes, and it doesn’t actually improve the algorithm of what gets served to me.

    If it’s spam, or a photo of someone’s thumb wearing a tutu, or off topic, or violating a rule then I’ll downvote (this is pretty rare though).

    I also usually block posters who aren’t to my tastes, but that feels too coarse grained because maybe they post in the asklemmy or something with great content there.

  • lobster_fowl@lemmynsfw.comtogonewild@lemmynsfw.com•Should we completely ban advertising links in this community?
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    8 months ago

    There are some awesome creators on here who have been great for the community, they regularly engage with users, post great original content, and I think it’s fair that they want to sell their services and support themselves. I’m not opposed at all to links in their bios.

    The last week or so has had a deluge of low quality posters and frankly it does not spark joy to browse my feed. I don’t even trust that these posters are who they say they are – the titles and bios are basically all the exact same format with the same emojis in the same places, and sentence the structure that’s filled in with a basic form/script, and their post titles feel optimized to shit and lifted from other platforms.

    I think additional verification for promoted content is required.