Recently, on the francophone lemmy, there was some discussion on downvote, as some posts (on francophone instance, or francophone communities) gets a lot of downvote without a reason.
Yesterday, I had post going up to -5 before going back to 1. It was a belgian newspaper article about new IA regulation in Europe in the francophone news community of LW. I am glad that so many people are interested in European affair and want to votes. But considering that it’s not the kind of topic leading the heated discussion I doubt these downvotes were even about the topic but either some “random downvotes” or “people who haven’t set their language filter properly”
Just curious if some of you experienced similar issues when posting in German/Spanish/Korean/Russian/whatever
Yeah I just block communities in languages I don’t speak. But maybe that doesn’t occur to some users.
It’s a lot better now that I can block entire instances, but for a while half of my feed was stuff feddit.de and feddit.it no matter how many communities I blocked. I can understand how someone would just start mass downvoting posts that forget to set a language.
I’d like the option to see news / posts from other regions that are made in English, because those do happen. But I too just block whole communities and instances out of convenience