Post #1929148

2026-05-02 02:29 UTC

Holy mother of God that modlog. It’s almost up to 80 pages in 12 months 🤯 That being said, people who downvote AI content can be quite overwhelming on this platform. Our community !imageai@sh.itjust.works was very vibrant in the early days but seems to have been slowly crushed by the neverending stream of downvotes. It’s pretty discouraging when you go through the effort of creating and posting something and it gets randomly downvoted by anonymous accounts that seem to have been created just for the purpose of downvoting. But that’s just kinda how it is I guess, I’m not sure if anything can be done about it.

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@artyom@piefed.social 2026-05-02 04:54

All things GenAI deserve to be downvoted. That’s why you might find it downvoted.

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@Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2026-05-02 06:10

I think you’re making an easy mistake to make. You see an account with no comments and assume it was created by some shadow organisation just to downvote things. But what you need to understand is, 99% of users on any social media are lurkers. 90% of people just browse. 9% of people browse and vote. 0.9% of people browse, vote, and comment. And 0.1% of people actually make regular posts. So 9/10 people who downvote your posts, just organically, are people who never comment. Because that’s how social media works. Rimu’s Piefed moderation tools can help somewhat. Rimu put in an “attitude” score that shows how often a user up/downvotes. But even that can mess up. When I told one friend about piefed’s attitude feature, She said “But I only vote when a post is actually breaking the rules. So I can be punished for voting? Okay, then I just won’t even vote on piefed”. That’s the truth about this stuff: There are billions of people out there using social media in a way you will never be able to relate to. Because everyone is different.

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