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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

It's also a lot of bots. They are here too. For example, just say China plus something negative about them, ~~in a thread about China~~. Easiest downvoted one can get. Make sure it's a fact and not whataboutism, to avoid contaminating the test.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What makes you think it isn't just real people?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

It's almost always instantly. Like sometimes second after posting. Then it either snowballs or it goes back into positive. But initially, be it on Lemmy or Reddit it happens. I'm not constantly complaining about China, the handful of times though, it's super obvious. Doesn't happen on other topics.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Okay: China sucks, they try to hide the Tianmen square massacre and the genocide of Uyghurs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mostly see them on political communities, but based on your downvotes, they might be getting out

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's two downvotes (at least on lemmy.ml at this point in time). Is it hard to imagine that 2 out of 16 people could dislike seeing someone say that anything that doesn't fit their narrative is the result of bots?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At the time of writing that comment, it was 2 - 2, with one upvote from me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is it still -2 for you though?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It has 19 upvotes with 2 downvotes at the moment, which is a much more realistic ratio than what it was.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's weird, because it also has 2 downvotes for me at the moment (which means it can't be some weird federation issue), but assuming that you originally saw 2 downvotes before I came along, then something something can't be right because I am one of the two downvoters and I only saw the comment some hours after your comment in this thread (judging from the timestamp of my comment) (or maybe I visited the post once, then came back to leave a comment?).