Shut up, you stole my lunch money when we were kids! …wait not here?

Lemmy is small enough that “brigading” doesn’t feel entirely appropriate. Maybe “platooning?”

In any case, we know from other sites that downvotes increase the probability of getting more downvotes, and nasty comments increase the probability of getting more nasty comments. The same goes for upvotes and positive comments. It’s just social dynamics. Some subs on reddit existed almost exclusively to call out other subs, but I think that Lemmy’s user base is small and spread out enough that it’s not a major contributing factor in voting.

I think it’s mostly just people scrolling along, running across a hot take, and interpreting it according to the voting.

In any case, I would suspect that people would be more impacted by hurtful comments than downvotes.

I guess I've just been lucky and sheltered while on Lemmy. I see bigotry here and there, but because I hang out in queer spaces, I don't see overwhelming bigotry get much traction. The worst I usually see are tankie or liberal assholes, probably because of mods not tolerating anything farther right than that for a second.

Another factor might be that I'll throw hands(through language of course) against trolls. I'm not sure if I have thick skin in the sense that I don't feel the offense, but I do have armor inside and out.

It's hard to get under my skin because they'd need to somehow understand how to be bigoted against my relevant identity better than I do. I was obsessed with following hate groups and fascists for years, learning how that think and why they think that way. I understand bigotry better than they do, and enjoy finding the most powerful bigotry so I can beat it in the future.

I know most people can't do that, so I go on the offensive whenever I see it not directed at me. Trolls probably go for people that won't tear their attacks apart like I do, so they either don't start harassing me or give up before it gets out of hand. I was always vulnerable growing up, so I guess I invested into becoming capable of fighting back against harassment and bullies, at least through language.

That makes sense. Giving up and denying that you've given up is detestable.

Yeah that's what we need, people like you that fearlessly mix outside your bubble. Good on ya. I won't deny that it's detestable that you want to vote for a neotode, but still.

That's actually really interesting, thank you for sharing :3

Woof :D