this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2023
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I think you should stop worrying about pointless internet points that don’t matter to anyone.
Vote brigading matters. If you're subscribed to a 'controversial' community and every post gets downvoted to oblivion, you and other subscribers who sort by 'hot/top' won't see the post unless they go directly to the community.
This slowly kills the community, even if its users are active on Lemmy.
This happens period in hive mind communities/instances.
Which is why I only sort by new
Still, very easy to miss a post from a small community when you've got many other larger subscriptions.
But everyone doesn't sort by new. So something like this matters.
I'm not sure what you think I was saying.
I was saying that I sort by new because this happens when not enough people do. I'm stating that I hope to do my teeny, tiny part to reduce the affect.
It that’s what it takes to kill a community, that community wasn’t going to last long to begin with.