It's a result of Lemmy being too small to exist without using the "all" feed. Non-furries get your content across their feed and have the ability to vote on it. It might be worth disabling downvotes while the instance is small, since it's especially prone to outside vote manipulation.
this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2023
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yiffit is 1 shy of 800 users. After the post is old enough, if people here liked it, it would get some votes; it doesn't. I don't know enough about how the sorting works here to know what would cause it to pop back up in hot after being new. I do know that -2= never seen in hot/active again.
It has 34 users/week, and 12/day. I don't think that many people are seeing the post to begin with. Those people are also not subscribed to every community and won't see every post that comes through Yiffit unless they're watching the All feed.
I think that is only users who comment/post. I don't think it counts votes or logins. I know probably a majority of registered users aren't active, but I think there are enough to at least keep things popular here at 0.
There are so few votes on even chat topics and the general /c/furry community, which are subscribed to by people not from Yiffit. I think Lemmy is just dead in general, and that doesn't favor niche communities that some people have a vendetta against. I think it's worth asking Wander and the community what their thoughts on disabling downvotes are. This was previously discussed here, but the community and climate was different at that point. It's demoralizing to try to support a small community while hecklers are allowed to interfere - I suspect some people even subscribe to those communities to downvote every post.
I wouldn't take it personally, to be honest. A lot of these downvotes are from people on other instances who just downvote furry stuff as a matter of policy, everything here gets one or two downvotes. The things that stay downvoted tend to be those that are on unpopular communities where people just don't see them.
And yeah, it does suck and feel bad.
oh, I know. but stuff popular among those here still winds up net positive. I try to use the smaller communities to bring awareness that they exist. If no one posts, no one will post.