It might be a different user, a different community name, but it’s always the same: mostly NSFW pictures (sometimes not even revealing), 0 comments and a ~-6 score. The pictures are mostly about an erotic/romantic encounter between two people. Then the community disappears, resurfaces with a randomly similar name, and the same happens again.
Why?
People assume this is a Reddit clone, spin up a community, get votes with nsfw stuff, close the communities, sell the accounts.
But that doesn’t really with with Lemmy.
I’m sure this kind of mindset exists, but I don’t really get how suddenly a LOT of people started downvoting their first attempt at the community (or why it looks more suspicious of “karma farming” than any other new community). To me it seemed like a sudden mass sabotage, which must have a reason, but I couldn’t figure out what.
I didn’t downvote the one post I’ve seen (like you and others said, to each their own), but I recognized the style from the subreddit and felt negatively about it. Doesn’t have to be sabotage. Could just be people who remember the beforetimes metaphorically recoiling.
To be fair, I would like this to be the real reason, because otherwise it would have puzzled me even more.
(BTW subreddit? :) )
Yes, I remember the subreddit from when I was on reddit, which is to say, the beforetimes.
Oh, I didn’t know it had a history there, too. Thanks for the insight!
The only necessary explanation is that people don’t want or like the content. There is a ton of NSFW material on Lemmy that exists plenty peacefully.
The issue is that the (low effort, low quality) content is hard to block because of the constant pivot to new communities and accounts. I don’t want to see it, but I could simply block it and be done with it if they’d keep it contained to a single place. Since they’re being SUPER annoying about that though, it gets downvoted. It’s bad form on that user’s part.
TBF I really don’t get why they keep restarting it under a different name. If they’re not bothered by the constant downvotes, then why restart? If they are, then what do they expect for the 4th time?