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1. Post anything that involves China. A Chinese word. Chinese food. Chinese culture. Chinese clothing. Chinese history. Hell, even having Chinese in your user ID. That is almost guaranteed to get a downvote or two within minutes. Like to the point of getting downvotes in a group dedicated to talking about snack foods when you show street food (you know, snack food) in China. It's incredibly funny watching those knees jerk around spasmodically.

2. Post anything critical of how the western (chiefly American) left does things, despite the obvious complete abject failure of said left in the past decade or so. (I mean really: Brexit. TWO Trump terms. The rise of populist authoritarianism all over Europe and the Americas. How can you not see this as abject failure!?)

3. Point out how stupidly ineffective (and indeed maladaptive) voting-driven sites like Reddit and Lemmy really are.

4. Even in "leftist" Lemmy, pointing out that capitalism is mid-collapse will garner you at least a handful of downvotes.

5. Be a woman who doesn't defer to a man.

6. Be nonwhite not deferring to white folk.

There are certain topics which you are expected to rabidly detest without question. Anything less than sheer, frothing-at-the-mouth, hatred will get you down votes and replies telling you why nuance is fucking stupid and you should just blindly hate with the rest of the hivemind.

A few examples:

AI

Bitcoin/crypto

The word "retarded"

Brave browser

Any of Elon musk's companies. Not just the man himself, but Tesla and SpaceX as a whole.

Most religions; unless they are associated with minorities, then they're precious flowers that should be respected.

Reddit

Google

Microsoft

Personal cars as a means of transportation

Talking respectfully about MacOS in linux communities…

Cross posting to too many communities.

"Personal cars have utility"

Defending transphobes, defending israel, and using the word "gwinv" in a sentence

Reading comprehension isn't great which can often cause misunderstandings that lead to downvotes.

Anything. People around here downvote memes they personally don't like in meme cookies communities and songs they personally don't like in song sharing communities. It seems like all of the types of people that never followed etiquette on Reddit either came here. And the problem is here is so much smaller, so every downvote is more noticeable and affects things more.

Not having 100% praise for Lemmy and criticizing certain things is a site fire way as well. And if you kick the hornets nest enough in that regard, they'll actually start actively downvoting correct information and upvoting misinformation, as long as it suits the circlejerk.

If you talk about how someone went through your entire profile and downvoted everything, you guessed it, that results in even more people doing the same thing. And now your stupid innocent comments about your life or hopes and dreams in casual conversation are all sitting at minus points and this whole thing feels like a joke and waste of time, while the people who put you there go "who cares? It's just imaginary internet points."

And some of these people that I encountered in this, treating people this way and intentionally ruining the experience and fun for them were regular and familiar faces around here. Those familiar faces that people talk about that are so nice to see around here.

And the fact that there were so many familiar faces makes me wonder about other things too. In the middle of that, I had someone completely baselessly accuse me of being someone else with multiple accounts. Which of course got upvoted by probably the same people that upvoted misinformation on how blocking on Facebook works.

And that left me wondering about the times I've got a DM warning me that a user I've interacted with is a bot or someone with multiple accounts for nefarious reasons. And I normally believe them. But are they going to be doing this to me now? Is this what the power users around here that act like nice people do to anyone that pisses them off?

Edit: I bet this will get downvoted too. Not that I can see it from here.

• Saying anything critical of Hamas or non-critical of Israel
• Expressing non-negative views about AI (LLMs)
• Pointing out that not all members of a group are the same
• Calling out extremism, for example posts inciting violence against CEOs or rich people
• Defending unpopular individuals from false or exaggerated claims
• Trying to defend yourself against false accusations
• Highlighting obvious double standards in how people or ideologies are treated
• Criticizing performative outrage or moral grandstanding, even respectfully
• Asking sincere questions that challenge the thread’s emotional momentum
• Stating that you’re politically neutral or independent
• Defending due process or basic legal principles in emotionally charged situations
• And of course, writing this response

Saying anything positive about AI. AI is Satan in the eyes of most people on Lemmy and if you disagree you're a fascist pig. I also got downvoted once for pointing out that being a millionaire isn't that hard to achieve these days if you're a well paid professional in response to a comment saying that millionaires are evil people who should be sent to prison. Like pointing out that the math works out that most engineers will be millionaires by retirement age is apparently evil lmao.

Nintendo. They definitely do some frustrating things sometimes, but I don’t think they're anywhere near the worst in the industry right now. But the circlejerk at any mere mention on this platform has become beyond insufferable.

I've had someone tell me I'm killing gaming because I said I'm excited that Kirby Air Ride is finally getting a sequel after 22 years. Fuck off and let me enjoy things!

complaining about downotes (and it should)

posting links to a video without providing a text summary (and it should)

complaining about censorship on "lemmy" when the user has only tried one instance (and it should)

reposting content (this one's more iffy)

Point out that neoliberals (so people like UK's Labor, Germany's SPD and America's Democrats) are not your friends and will screw you over at the closest opportunity. Also being critical of US veterans or current servicemen.

Being critical of vegans or the language they are using to describe meat.

Being too silly

Not being silly enough

wouldn't know, don't care because hexbear doesn't have downvotes.

life is good, post more.

Authoritarian dick sucking.

Pretending communism is an Authoritarian ideology.

Edit: found later in the comments that OP is pro forced birth

So I'm adding prolife genital obsessed religious sickos to the list

Posting the same thing with a female username name has gotten me more down votes than a male username.

And people ask why there are comparatively fewer women on Lemmy.

Mentioning that you're into cars or crypto.

Basic milquetoast feminism. I've had more issues with weird misogyny on here than I ever did on Reddit.