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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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If you intentionally show up somewhere you clearly don't want to be just to "boo" people minding their own business, yeah, you should be asked to leave and barred from "participating".
Common courtesy is to not downvote things in /all that you don't like if you're not subscribed. Just ignore it or block the community and move on.
Am I guilty of that? Hell yeah, I am - never said I wasn't. But I do try to be better and not just knee-jerk to the downvote button if I see something I don't like in a community I'm neither subscribed to nor interested in.
It's never their own business, the very nature of this platform is a form of communication with many people with many different opinions.
If you want to contribute meaningfully to a conversation, try using your words rather than merely downvoting. You may actually change people's minds that way?
But if you are just trying to emotionally satisfy yourself - nothing at all wrong with self-soothing imho, according to every psychology anything that I have ever heard of - then I suggest merely blocking such people or communities instead.
You have the right to your opinion... but the timing of when and where that must be shared is something that should be considered carefully, no? We do not want to be a community of incels here, where all these "such nice men" shove literally all of their collective and unfiltered thoughts down our throats regardless of consent. I say this as a warning to you: you will get banned that way, from many communities, if you actually practice this and not just talk about it theoretically as we are doing here.
"communication" is a 2-way street, and yes you have the capability to downvote, but also yes they can ban / block too.