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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.
Several of the politically conservative subs would do that to redditors who commented in other subs with opposing ideologies. You didn’t even have to comment in the conservative subs to get a ban.
And as petty as I think that is, I still think it is their right to run an unchallenged echo chamber with completely homogeneous opinions. Similarly Lemmy instances are free to federate or defederate as they see fit.
I very much agree with giving source instances a chance to discipline/ban bad actors. Hopefully this will evolve in that direction. For now the Beehaw admins feel that the right mod tools are not yet available. They have a specific vision for what they want to build, and it is completely up to them how they go about that.
That doesn’t mean everyone external has to agree or like their decisions, but it’s their house, their rules.
IIRC it’s a bug not specific to the Steam Deck, but something to do with the way Linux is handling audio. So the fix then is harder to get implemented since it isn’t confined to code that Valve controls. Valve has to wait for the problem to be fixed in the greater Linuxosphere first, but I’m sure they’re assisting with it.
In the USA, work culture means losing rights. Those of us that have pushed back against illegal behavior in the workplace are pretty quickly blackballed.
Trust me, we know workers have more rights in Europe. There’s little-to-nothing we can do to enact those sorts of protections here. The rich have us by the throat.
I have a friend who tried to get me to join him and his online buddies on every new big multiplayer game. Out of the literally dozens he recommended to me, I bought maybe two, and those two have a great single player campaign.
I’ve always preferred single player games, and I feel like I don’t waste money like I would on whatever the current hot MMO is. MMOs go stale or the community changes, and then you will probably never play it again. Single player games just largely don’t go that way and are repayable.
I’d say it’s kinda like having a “10-second” car that everyone loves and wants, but then you start ripping out some of the best performance parts and installing inferior parts in their place.
Does the car still run? It does. Is it slowly imploding because you’ve upset the engine’s balance to the point where it’s becoming dysfunctional? Also yes.
It’s only a matter of time before the pretty paint job no longer hides the garbage under the hood.