I have made a step-by-step guide so you dumb fucks can follow.
click on your username in the top right corner
Go to “Settings” and then switch to the “Blocks” tab
Type in the name of the community you want to block
Save your changes. That’s it! See it wasn’t so hard.
What’s weird is it’s always the accounts with no activity making these complaints…
Including this thread, OP has made 4 posts and 20 some comments over the last year.
How motivating do you think it is to post to smaller communities just to get an unrepresentative number of downvoters right off the bat? I can’t speak for OP but I’m sure there are plenty that don’t post or reply at all because of it.
I think at its core downvoting can be fine but on smaller platforms it’s easily abused as a form of content suppression, bullying, etc. Lemmy seems to be particularly prone to account hopping downvote spam, which sucks but it is what it is.
Thankfully Lemmy is flexible enough to create what you want more privately if one is so inclined. I’m smoking weed about it.