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The Fediverse is largely unregulated outside of the basic human-decency rules. So, people can do whatever they want, and these are just the things people have made so far.
Any person can attempt to address this by making more of the kinds of communities they are interested in, and then steadily posting content to them to see if they can grow them. They can name the community however they wish.
Oh, and Americans are very arrogant. It's a part of our culture, if we're being fair. Just look at the stuff our film industry makes, and remember that does reflect our broader culture. How often do we tell the overall story of a humbled, or humble-and-stays-humble protag? Not very. Once in awhile (Luke Skywalker or the first couple Terminator films for instance), and its often a big hit, but we like our flashy popcorn flicks with very not-humble protags more. Like, how humble is Batman?
edit: 100% unrelated to this thread, and I don't really feel like making one, but I'm currently under a really fascinating downvote bomb pattern that started about a half hour ago.
If you check my profile, you'll see that even an extremely innocuous comment from yesterday thanking someone for clarifying some information just picked up 11 downvotes. It had 0 an hour ago.
Anyone else experience anything like this yet?
I haven't experienced it (yet) but I saw comments yesterday talking about downvote bombers. Definitely not your imagination.
I just bombed you with an upvote.
Thanks. :p I'm not so worried about the internet points, but the existence of a script that could be easily downloaded and used concerns me a good bit. This doesn't look like human behavior, I've been watching, and it's too methodical and regular.
It's also only happening with content I posted to lemmy.world, nowhere else on the Fediverse.
A couple of my comments have been downvoted quickly after posting today, but this is also a thread about being frustrated by Americans so you explaining how Americans are may have rustled some jimmies
It's not this comment that started it, I made this comment well after it had already started.
And besides, being called arrogant is extremely unlikely to offend any of us. We are arrogantly aware of and enjoy our arrogance. We do not really consider arrogance to be a negative personality trait, necessarily. It depends on context to become negative.
Oh I meant non-Americans annoyed at how matter-of-fact we are about being arrogant may be going after you, but it’s speculation and sounds like it’s not the case based upon your further context
Ah, I see. Yes, I suppose I could see that. But yeah, the rest of it makes it unlikely. I doubt any would be upset enough to turn some kind of script on that goes through and puts my recent comments, on one Instance only, into the negative.
Interestingly, they seem to have turned it off. Or it could be because the initial comment that I vaguely suspect did start it, where I called out a troll a few hours ago, has now been deleted.
I've been checking back in really regularly though, to track what was happening. It was about 1 downvote/10-15 minutes or so, going until the comments were between -1 and -6 votes, and keeping them there as other people upvoted. It seems to cap out at a certain threshold though, and a select few of my posts were ignored, or less-affected.
It was very interesting. I'm actually a little miffed it stopped, as I was planning some more proper experiments to learn more about it.