I like a lot of the communities on that instance, but every once in a while I just get hit with a random wave of toxicity by them for no reason. For example, there was a post asking which communities from Reddit do you wish existed on Lemmy, and I answered honestly saying more car related communities as they are one of my hobbies, and I got severely downvoted and got replied to with "there is a FuckCars community" There are other times in the past where something similar happened in a lemmy.ml community, where I said something that was 100% non-offensive, non-argumentative, and non-political but got mass down voted for no reason. I have not had this problem anywhere else however. Does anyone else have a similar experience or no?

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[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're just gonna mention this and not provide a link? Tsk tsk.

[–] BallsInTheShredder@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Didn't know anyone would be interested! Here ya go https://lemmy.world/c/mechanicadvice join, comment and post away! If there's anything you'd like to see in the community let me or someone else know, we're still figuring it out

[–] CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world 7 points 1 year ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !mechanicadvice@lemmy.world

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's dozens of us! Dozens!

[–] BallsInTheShredder@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Almost a dozen dozens!

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Odd that it never came up when I searched for it previously. I wonder if you might be missing subscribers because they can't find the community like me.

[–] BallsInTheShredder@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's only really been active for a little bit, maybe that's why? Aside from that, I'd guess that maybe it's an issue with different instances though couldn't say for certain as I'm Lemmy inept. Are you on Lemmy.world?

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, I'm on sh.itjust.works but I can search lemmy.world. i was active on mech advice on Reddit before coming over here and have looked for it a few times. Even now, though, I searched for it right before I took the direct link to the community and got nothing. It's just weird.

[–] Microw@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Your instance probably simply doesnt know that this community exist. You cant magically see all communities on a different instance you're federated with.

It's one of the problems of activitypub right now.

[–] BallsInTheShredder@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I figured you could! That is strange. I searched it just now and got it, the only difference I can think of other than being on sh.itjust.works would maybe be the app you're using? I'm not savvy enough to have much of a guess tbh but it would be nice if people could find us!

I know I was bummed out when I couldn't find a community for it, one of the biggest miffs I had about leaving Reddit!

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

That's my guess, either federation or app. Hopefully it doesn't affect a lot of other people!