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Is this the typical behaviour of fediverse users? Posts in Apple and Nintendo communities immediately get downvoted by people disliking the companies. Can’t they just block the communities?
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But the posts are in specific Apple/Nintendo communities. Do you downvote those?
If I see them in the feed then yes. Would you downvote a post promoting Adolf Hitler even if it was on a nazi community?
Do you think this is a reasonable comparison?
No, that's a hyperbole to better explain the point. It's a common technique.
Anyway, Hitler is hard to top, but Apple with their support of literal bullying of people is not as nice as you might think.
You know why it's not a good comparison? Because I'm not going to report someone to instance admins for talking about the new Mario Kart.
That sounds like a you issue, not the comparison's.
Are you saying you would report someone to instance admins for talking about Mario Kart?
Do you feel like that's what I was saying?
I feel like you're being willfully obtuse pretending not to understand the difference between being a Nazi and liking Mario Kart.
That's rich coming from you mister "would you report Mario Kart to instance admins."
Anyway, this is getting tiring, so bye.
I'm making a point about why these are not the same thing, and you're willfully ignoring that point.
Wait, you'd stay subscribed to nazi communities just to downvote them instead of blocking them?
And people supporting companies you don't like are equivalent to nazis?
They are saying the posts being on a community dedicated to a thing doesn't make them immune from downvotes.
It was an extreme example, not an equivalence.
They have been banned for 7 days.
For providing an example? Nice, classy.
But why not simply block the community? An "Apple" news item in a community dedicated to "Apple" seems entirely relevant to me, and if I do not like "Apple" then I would want not to influence others to not see that one specific post but to see no similar posts in the future, which is accomplished by blocking the community rather than downvoting.
It would be like if I said that I hated your username b/c I do not like banjos - I don't btw, I love your username actually:-P - but really, who cares, as in why is my opinion relevant in that context? It is your username, you can name yourself whatever you like! I respect that.
Why not respect the preferences of others then, even if they decide to like "Apple"? (I am ignoring the comparison to Hitler b/c that is not merely hyperbole as in quantitatively different but of the same kind, and rather that one is a fully qualitative difference in kind)
You cannot change the entire world - certainly not merely by downvoting. All that you will accomplish by not respecting others' legitimate preferences will be to influence people's opinions of yourself.