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
If anyone from feddit.it sees this, please set your language defaults to (presumably) Italian!
I just put them in my block list but I’d rather that be for much more extreme problems.
And to OP it’s most likely because of this issue. Blocking isn’t the right solution. Downvoting at least conveys that SOMETHING is wrong on their end. So people probably use it as such.
Note that, with some other french speaker we’ve done a couple of experiences with language tags. Some instances ignore the c/ default language https://sh.itjust.works/post/16306134 so even if the community is properly set some languages aren’t set automatically.
Moreover some /c/ may want to be multi-lingual and then users need to set language by hand no matter what
It feels like an issue that should be solved with additional features. Understandably it’s a low priority issue, but the current setup is going to produce this type of issue, and it’s not really something that we can blame on anyone.
The trick is that the fedi, has already better tools than reddit/Xitter. We can already flag the language and filter by language, which is feature reddit still doesn’t have. So it’s also about people using it rather than blocking/downvoting