The current default “Homepage” value is “All”. That makes sense for users with zero subscribed magazines, so they see something.
But for users with one or more subscribed magazines, the default value for “Homepage” needs to be “Subscriptions”.
That’s partially just because subscriptions mean little if the default frontpage ignores them. But there’s a more important reason than that.
The current situation is that posts in m/Conservative are heavily downvoted, and barely upvoted. (Whatever your politics may be, consider if this was happening to you.) As more ex-redditors join, this problem is likely to worsen.
Eventually moderators need better controls, to say things like “Only members can vote”, etc.
But for now, a very easy fix is to change the default value of “Homepage” to be “Subscriptions”. Of course, “All” should still be a selectable option for those who prefer it.
You can change your default homepage in settings.
It’s not precisely brigading since it’s not coordinated, but it is confusing. I generally don’t go into subreddits/magazines I disagree with and just downvote everything. Maybe another solution here is to allow magazines to not be included in all?
Brigading is a coordinated effort that starts in one or more external communities and is directed at a specific target. That’s not what you’re describing.
Perhaps it’s the case that a Conservative community is just unpopular among users browsing /all? This isn’t a strictly USA politics thing. You’re getting international users seeing this content too.
Even with your proposed change - which I think I agree with, but not for the same reason - nothing is going to prevent users from browsing and potentially downvoting submissions.
If there is this much sensitivity to meaningless Web points (seriously, there are no karma totals here), then I think a better solution might be to find or start an instance run by people who share Conservative values and have that instance control the desired level of federation with other instances.
People downvote because they don’t want to see or simply disagree with the content. It’s not complicated, and it’s not brigading.
But here is the beautiful thing about federated instances. Anyone can create a nen instance for themselves, or find an instance that is better suited to to the topic. Go and be free!
This level of control is generally handled at the instance level.
If you want to host a magazine and control interactions on it, host your own instance.
There should only be one instance IMHO. And it should be able to support widely diverse communities.
kbin is part of the Fediverse. It is one instance of many.
I draw your attention to the sidebar:
Create your own instance
Clone repo and develop fediverse
Several communities who have more difficult interactions with others have already followed this route.
Encouraging fracturing into factions does no good for anyone. The internet needs a frontpage, and for years that was reddit. Now it seems to be kbin, maybe. Under the hood it may be a distributed system, but in practice normal people want a single website where a wide diversity of topics and opinions is embraced and protected.
I mean, not to be rude, but if you just want a single instance with many communities, you’re describing Reddit.
Correct. Many of us who left reddit for kbin are fed up with reddit’s governance and policies, not its platform architecture. Kbin seems to have been chosen as the world’s probable reddit replacement, so here we are.