Be as thoughtful as you want to be knowing that if you choose to downvote a whole bunch of comments, someone can know it was you. If someone knows that a single person is downvoting every single one of their comments they can block them if they wish. My main point is just that if you don't want someone knowing you upvoted or downvoted them, just don't do it. It would mostly just be trolls who want to hide it anyway

Zero. Upvotes are a show of appreciation and I don't see why anyone would want that to be private. When it comes to downvotes, if you wouldn't want someone to know you downvoted something, you can't stand by that decision and so shouldn't have downvoted in the first place. Public reactions (alongside the self moderation features) keeps the fediverse honest and prevents the hostile type of downvote spamming you see on other platforms like reddit.

Ok, so police police police police, but who polices the police police? Are there police police police policing police police?

Fair, I don't see anywhere that they are explicitly marxist or leftist (though I feel like that should be obvious by the name). They do however, linked immediately above the screenshot you posted, state that they are not a liberal instance and don't want to be. They also state that they would like to see another instance take on the role of a mainstream, liberal instance. I think it is extremely unfair to expect lemmy.ml to cater to liberals when they explicitly state that their instance is not a liberal instance.

edit: link to the post: https://lemmy.ml/post/70280 (it can be found linked on their sidebar immediately above their rules)

![Screenshot of lemmy.ml's "what is lemmy.ml" post:

"In particular, I would like to see someone (or a group of people) create a mainstream, or liberal instance. That should help to avoid further drama, and avoid attempts to turn lemmy.ml into something that it is not. @dessalines and I would certainly be willing to help with any technical problems that such an instance runs into, and include it on join-lemmy.org (just like any other instance that meets the code of conduct)."](https://media.kbin.earth/70/33/7033cdc94f9c254e1c1a1884a93d194b76da1165dec7788ebc32405f4cc860dd.png)

I have a couple:

"Posting the same content to multiple comms is a bad". Posting to multiple comms should be encouraged so long as it is relevant to each of them. The Threadiverse is federated and so there are many comms for the same or similar content, not every user is in or wants to join every single one. Your feed is yours and out should treat it as such, don't complain that another user is ruining you're feed because you decided to sort by new and are in multiple of the same or similar comms.

".ml are all just trolls / tankies / bad". The few trolls on .ml are given infinitely more weight than the genuine ML users, and the .world zionists and centre-right liberals are propped up as exemplary users despite constantly stoking a flame-war that most users don't give a shit about. ML has just as much of a right to ban political dissidents from their comms as any other instance. Explicitly leftist instances exist for a reason and you don't have to interact with them if you don't agree.

This last one is more of a subconscious view within the "Lemmy hive mind". The Lemmy defaultism gets exhausting (even if a minor grievance) and I wish "Lemmy" was reserved for things that are actually only relevant to Lemmy as opposed to using it as a general term for the threadiverse. I know that Lemmy was the first and is the largest and all, and it's understandable that it would be seen as the default (similar to Mastodon for the microblogging side of things), but I wish there was more of a culture around getting users to stop referring to the whole federation as if it's a single piece of software (similar to the culture on the microblogging side).

rice bubbles are still GF, but coco pops now contain gluten.

Yeh, sorry. I don't know if you saw my edit or are responding to my original comment. If the original, I was mistaken. If the edit, then it's a setting.

It took them so long I no longer care tbh. I got used to inkscape and scribus. Scribus would be the two of those I would stop using first if I do switch back

I might have to switch to Piefed from mbin. Both are far better than Lemmy imo, but piefed is starting to leave mbin in the dust too. I keep hearing of ways piefed just does things better.

yes, I am currently on the Interstellar app. I was shocked to learn this isn't how Lemmy handles it. To me, it's one of the features of the Threadiverse: Some posts are relevant to multiple communities/magazines and I might only be in one of them, but I still want to see the comments from the other posts. In mbin and interstellar, I see the posts in my feed, but it tells me where else it was posted, and shows me the comments from the other posts. Once I've read one, it marks the others as read too

cotton is heat resistant, just not flame resistant. It washes better than wool and doesn't felt as easily.

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