Unpopular Opinion

You are going to love reading this:

https://join.piefed.social/2024/06/22/piefed-features-for-growing-healthy-communities/

It's nowhere close to what you asked for, but I think you'll find that "in spirit" it leads to the same end. i.e., PieFed penalizes people who downvote all the time, and then labels their accounts, visible to everyone else (on PieFed). It does not block anything but labels them as someone who does such. It also alters the counting of votes (again, solely within PieFed though - these aren't sent out to the wider Fediverse) to prioritize the ones from people who have more upvoted content than downvoted, i.e. people with higher reputation. Anyway it's fascinating that people are investing effort into thinking about such matters.:-)

But if you truly don't want downvotes at all, then there are instances that have disabled them, e.g. https://reddthat.com/.

Alternatively, if you want to block only tankies, there are indeed ways. e.g. Lemmy.cafe and quokk.au have both defederated entirely from the big 3, so they will never see your content in the first place. PieFed has defederated from two, and I routinely see my content having downvotes visible from other instances but my content when viewed from PieFed.social has no downvotes at all (the same as any other Lemmy instance that would have defederated them).

Though if you just want to hide content from them, that's significantly harder to do but not impossible: https://piefed.social/post/307636.

As for "moronic content", that's just a feature of social media altogether (https://medium.com/@max.p.schlienger/the-cargo-cult-of-the-ennui-engine-890c541cebcb). We all would do better to pay attention to that. In some sense, it is extremely difficult to avoid though - see e.g. the recent USA election - but on the other hand, if you curate carefully where you send your content, then you may get better reception.

The thing is, you can do whatever you want... but so too can they. But we don't have to put up with their actions - we can do better.:-)

Upvoted as unpopular, per the rules of the community.

I don't think this would be an even remotely good feature.

You never know why someone specific up/downvoted a piece of content¹; at most you can pull up some possible explanations, but if you treat any as certain you're just assuming². As such you'll be blocking a lot of people based on things that you don't even disagree with.

1. not even when the person announces why they're up/downvoting something, like I did.
2. treating something uncertain as if it was true. The bane of social media.

At least you postet this in the right community.

I assume you aren’t trolling, so here is what will happen when implemented: After about two weeks you will have blocked everyone who isn’t you, your alt accounts or a bot.

“Creating an echo chamber” is said a lot when people talk about blocking, banning and defederating. Sometimes it is justified, sometimes it’s utter bullshit. What you suggest, blocking people because you don’t like how they vote, is beyond bonkers. And I say this as someone who at times can be quite trigger happy with the block feature.

PS: “Everyone but me is a moron” is the mark of the moron.

Blocking this, banning that. The result will be a bunch of filter bubbles where people only see what confirms and validates their own prejudices. Echo chambers, as you call them. I agree that this is a better scenario than a cesspool of cynicism and hate and negativity, but surely we can do better.

If the objective is incentivizing good behavior, here's another idea: reward upvoting and make it costly to downvote. Details TBD but other forums have done it and it works.

We got 50k users and every other day we have people bitching how they need more blocking features.

I want to post shit publicly but also chose and pick who can see and not see what i posted and who cant and cant react to my shit posts.

Main character syndrome?

[meta] that's it. i'm confused again if i should upvote or downvote in this community. upvoting gives op just more visibility for their shenanigans. so now i'll just block the whole stupid community. i'm sick of every day being opposite day.

I think it just needs to make a actually working block feature where a blocked person doesn't see your content anymore and isn't allowed to comment/vote on it.

You can use Mbin to see upvotes