Since a lot of folks sort by “all” on Lemmy, popular posts get overwhelmed by people who don’t daily drive operating systems like iOS or MacOS.
I like outside perspectives and all, but when the majority of the “community” discussion is coming from people who aren’t even using these products, it is pretty hard to have informed conversations.
Moreover, I feel like this type of engagement creates a lot of threads that get pretty combative and catty. They’re often started by people who are trying to argue and convince iOS / MacOS users that they’ve picked the wrong side of the fence.
Anyone else feel me on this? I imagine this is a problem for other communities on Lemmy as well.
Yeah, I’ve run into this before as well. I had a post I made in the standard notes community about a sale get down voted…
I made another post asking what happened and that’s how I found out it was down voted by a bunch of people that weren’t even part of the community because “it looked like an ad on their feed.”
I also had some user error on my part when I added the Zed RSS feed to Auto Post Bot without taking enough precautions to make sure it wasn’t going to post ancient stuff… Got some pretty heavy down votes presumably because it took about a page and a half of the “all” feed. I cleaned things up within 15 minutes, but it was definitely like “man, can I just not deal with people that aren’t even community members?”
Don’t get me wrong their frustration was valid, I screwed up, but also… I just don’t understand browsing all.