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I made 2 separate posts into 2 relatively dead communities, and despite getting a decent amount of traction (relative), the first 2 comments in each were 100% negative towards the content.
None of the commenters had ever posted content to the respective communities.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

!upliftingnews@lemmy.world

I posted about the Cotswold bar that pwned the couchfucker...

...and !WaitThatsinteresting@lemmy.world

I posted about a French startup converting trains into homeless shelters.

I yanked the posts, tho'

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 28 points 3 days ago

Uplifting News has a rule against shadenfruede, so that could be why your post was not taken well there.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well the first complaint is kinda fair, as it’s meant to be a break from the constant flood of political news.

2nd does sound interesting TBH, not sure what the issue with that would be.

[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I didn't see the replies to the second one, but the image looked fake, possibly AI generated. The news was that train carriages were being converted to private shelters for homeless people, with their own beds and storage, but the image showed a row of neatly made double beds down either side of a carriage with a walkway up the middle, all of which clearly wouldn't fit inside a carriage.

Given the reactions to anything AI on Lemmy, I wouldn't be surprised if it was something to do with that.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh yeah that was 100% it. People downvote anything that even looks remotely AI generated.

Yeah, Lemmy's anti AI allergy is kind of ridiculous, like a lot of Reddit too.

[–] Cherry@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

I personally feel that lemmee is a human centric place. Not over on with bots or AI so I can understand this. That’s what I am escaping being here.