I made 2 separate posts into 2 relatively dead communities, and despite getting a decent amount of traction (relative), the first 2 comments in each were 100% negative towards the content.
None of the commenters had ever posted content to the respective communities.
Content deleted: c’ya!
I didn’t see the replies to the second one, but the image looked fake, possibly AI generated. The news was that train carriages were being converted to private shelters for homeless people, with their own beds and storage, but the image showed a row of neatly made double beds down either side of a carriage with a walkway up the middle, all of which clearly wouldn’t fit inside a carriage.
Given the reactions to anything AI on Lemmy, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was something to do with that.
Oh yeah that was 100% it. People downvote anything that even looks remotely AI generated.
Yeah, Lemmy’s anti AI allergy is kind of ridiculous, like a lot of Reddit too.
I personally feel that lemmee is a human centric place. Not over on with bots or AI so I can understand this. That’s what I am escaping being here.