What are the advantages of downvotes anyway? If somebody breaks the rules, you can report them. If nothing is done about it, you can leave a community. If you dislike most of the content of an user or a community, you can give your negative feedback or block them. If you think somebody is wrong on some subject, you can correct them.

Sure, to be honest it feels good to press the downvote button on a comment or post I dislike, but I could live without it.

dilemmy

I chuckled.

Can someone provide a quick rundown on what makes them “problematic” to cause such a reaction?

I always found the votes in !albumartporn@lemmy.world a bit suspicious. This confirms my suspicion.

Why do people do this?

The admin TedvdB replied to this post:

Okay, I restarted Lemmy and it seem to have caught up with the federation. Im not sure why, but federation to lemmy.world was stuck. I’ll keep monitoring the situation, but for now it seems like it’s resolved.

Thank you!

I also sent a DM to the admin. Those federation issues are so frustrating.

To be fair, Cowbee didn’t specify that they successfully tried it!

I know about it, I use it myself. But I don’t “scrobble” directly to ListenBrainz, it’s connected to my Last.fm.

I’m not a big fan of the recommendations it gives me, not obscure enough for me. Maybe they will improve as more people use it, because AFAIK the algorithm is only based on listening data of users. I feel like the recommendations could already be better if MusicBrainz data like tags, labels, compilations albums, etc. were used additionally. (Example: You listen to artist X. Songs by artist Y are included in multiple compilation albums which also feature songs by artist X. Maybe you also like artist Y!)

For now I prefer tools like the one I posted here: There’s a collection of albums tagged with music genres, styles, etc. You want to discover albums with a certain tag. The tool provides you with a random album with that certain tag.

(You can also do this manually with Rate Your Music charts by using a random number generator. I kinda wish they added a feature to do this automatically.)

It’s always kind of funny, because you obviously expect a pun due to the format and then it’s just completely random and absurd. Anti-humor, I guess what it’s called.

The average for every single Lemmy instance was 8.208262964 comments per post.

I wonder how much that statistic would change if you exclude news or politics communities.

Someone needs to make an infinite recursion GIF of this!

I like that when you look at the thumbnail you expect a normal photo but then, looking at the big, full size image, you notice the filter/edit.

“Conflicting political views” doesn’t necessarily mean “fascist”. I don’t understand why this topic always causes such misunderstandings. This is something I also noticed when I made a thread on the Fediverse community asking about possible advantages or disadvantages about the mostly limited range of views on Lemmy. Some users replied in a similar fashion. Maybe it’s just a deliberate exaggeration, i don’t know.

Also I think the group should align politically

I think it’s best if people get along well with each other despite possible conflicting political views.

It’s built-in, that’s the main point of those apps.

I use YouTube Music because of the alternative apps that are very simple to use. I like Metrolist but there are many others.

If Canada joins EU, should we change its name? Any suggestions?

You can use some types of Markdown formatting (like italics) in the title, that’s why it says YOUNGMA*N (Y*O*U*N*G*M*A*N) instead of Y*O*U*N*G*M*A*N (Y\*O\*U\*N\*G\*M\*A\*N).

As far as I can see Lemmy supports hidden communities

I don’t think that’s the case. Here at feddit.nl (version 0.19.10, latest) I can set the visibility of a community only to “Public” and “Local Only”, too. There seems to be an option for instance admins to hide certain communities from all, though.