Sorry if it’s a dumb question. I’m not even knocking or shaming, I just think they’re really funny and want to see more if you know of them. Not accounts that downvote, accounts that ONLY downvote. Rare ones. Like weapons-grade haters.
I’d collect them in my user tags. And like, just observe what they respond to.
Yes, multiple times. Or downvotes most things at least.
~can you dm them to me, I’m fascinated~
Honestly, if you care enough, you should be able to spin up an instance and then run SQL queries on the PostgreSQL/MySQL database backing the Lemmy instance, which is what lemvotes.org does.
I don’t think I have anything to offer the online world in creating an instance. Or of I did it just to looky-lou at peoples votes it definitely wouldn’t be a very good one
I mean, people create single-user instances for their own use. You don’t have to let anyone else use it. I’m just saying that if you’re interested in doing stuff like “give me a list of all users that only downvote”, that’d probably be a reasonable way to do it. Take time to set up the instance, sure, but then you can get more-definitive answers to questions like that and run analyses on voting or whatever.
I didn’t know it was like that. Maybe there’s a lot I could learn just about how the fediverse even works by trying to create an instance
If you go to:
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
And then click on the “Active Users” column to sort by that column and look for instances with 0 or 1 “Active Users”, then look for instances with “Signups” set to “false” (i.e. new users can’t get accounts on those instances), that’ll probably give a feel for about how many “private” instances used by a single user there are out there.
At least two hundred. I had no idea it was so common.
Username checks out