this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2023
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Lemmy.world seems to be the only instance that would have been big enough to downvote us down the thread as viewed from other instances, but they defederated so we can't see them and they can't see us at all.
The rest that are federated don't have the numbers to do this, especially when you consider a large chunk of them are lemmygrad users who are posting side by side with us. So overall our higher posting activity (that is partially a result of the lack of downvotes changing how we interact) results in Hexbear user heavy discussions rising to the top of threads even as viewed from other instances.
To see the whole structure, go over to lemmy.ml or lemmygrad, find this thread there, then scroll. Toward the bottom you'll find a sort of underworld in this thread of lemmy.world users downvoting lemmygrad users into oblivion.
this is deeply funny. I wish they hadn't defederated so we could ratio their downvotes through sheer posting volume.