You have commented before and even if you didn’t, your voting history is extremely regular next to people like the one in the post or someone like maddddddddddddddddd@sh.itjust.works notice the downvote to upvote ratio and timestamp of each voting

this looks similar to maddddddddddddddddd@sh.itjust.works, and oji@lemmy.world is the more organic kind you can see when finding someone oji hates you see theres mass downvote within short interval time

I mean it seems like a way to boycott people using PieFed by using voting how it’s not meant to be and affect the reach of posts to PieFed users since they may get hidden from the feed if those kind of people downvote posts very early on and make it only visible on Lemmy side since this hiding posts isn’t a default thing like it is on PieFed.

Is there no kind of Downvote Nerf Lists, for like, putting users who acts like this to not count their downvotes just for you (however visible to everyone else), or is it a not feasible thing?

Does shadowban exist on PieFed? An issue i kept noticing while using Lemmy for a while are people gaming the vote system and it got worse (or maybe it’s just my impression) after PieFed surged so I could imagine some Lemmings are doing this to try to affect PieFed’s reach system of hiding posts after downvotes… there are Lemmings with no commebt or posts made but thousands of downvotes in neutral topics in the Threadiverse, and some calling out bots however when you check their voting history they have been misusing their votes you can notice more than 5 different post (not comments) downvotes within the same minute