TheSpookiestUser

I hope Lemmy eventually picks up more features like polls. I miss natively embedding polls.

Wouldn’t be the weirdest rebrand recently, honestly

Is the large amount of users actually the reason for the downtime? I thought it was coordinated attacks.

I’ve heard about Threads, which frankly I think will never pan out (they have no particular reason to encroach on this “market” given how small and usually anti-corporate it is here - I think they only mentioned ActivityPub as a buzzword), but Tumblr?

Credit where it’s due, Reddit was pretty good at coming up with novel ideas for social experiments for a few years (which also drove engagement, not coincidentally).

If I were to come up with Place-but-not, for the fediverse and Lemmy specifically, I would do it like this:

The canvas would start very small and divided into plots, with each plot “owned” by a user. The user who owns a plot can determine the pallete to be used in their plot, can whitelist / blacklist other users on their plot, and has a reduced cooldown on placing pixels inside their plot. They are the admin of their plot, basically, which is to mimic an instance.

When every pixel of the canvas has been covered at least once or a certain amount of time has elapsed, it would expand with new auto-generated plots randomly assigned to users from among those who have placed a pixel. Plots could be regular squares or other irregular shapes. The most inactive plots could be blanked and reassigned to a new owner after a time.

In this way, users would have to work together to make bigger art on the canvas or seek out a spot willing to cooperate with their art. You’d see alliances of plots, users making art around an uncooperative plot, hostile plots get ganged up on, hands-off plot owners allowing anything on their plot, and all sorts of shit like that that makes social experiments like this interesting. You’d likely still need top-tier admin intervention to remove hate symbols and the like.

Now, how many of the people that helped to do this are actually willing to leave the platform?

Delete your account, hopefully.

In seriousness, probably something like “Extend” or “XPost” even though those sound awful. They might just go back to just “post”, maybe.

At the least, put the screenshot and the link in the post. We can do both, people.

I want the place to be just big enough that the real niche communities (mostly gaming) start blooming. After that, though, I’m good.

Bias is I was a mod, but I figure the people both technically literate enough to host an instance and that actually did leave reddit when push came to shove are the good ones, generally. Most of the shitty mods haven’t left precisely because it would mean giving up what little power they have.

Given this community is General Discussion, I think it should be required for submitters to put forth their own text to start said discussion. I think allowing link posts is fine but OP must include text in the post describing what the link is and what they think about it.

Aw you’re fine, I just wanted to let whoever ran the account know. There was an instance of a bot dev deliberately not marking their account as a bot to try and make it seem natural, didn’t want you to get caught up in that - the development of an automod for lemmy will be a big step forward in moderation.

Very nice bot! If it is a bot, it should be marked as a bot account though.

I even get why, images inherently get more eyes on them than articles through links, but the least we can do is include the source in the post body.

Source on the image? Seems to be a snippet of a longer article.

EDIT: looking up the text of the image gives me https://inshorts.com/m/en/news/kerala-man-loses-₹40000-as-video-call-from-friend-turns-out-to-be-deepfake-1689663557129, which is just the snipped text, but points at

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/deepfake-scammers-trick-indian-man-into-transferring-money-police-investigating-multi-million-rupee-scam-101689622291654-amp.html

as the source. I get images get more engagement than links, but it’s important to have the source handy.

Does this actually work to notify someone on Lemmy?

They aren’t universally hated. No one likes them, sure, but as with a lot of things the silent majority is in the “doesn’t give a fuck” camp. This is the camp Reddit is relying on to keep using the website no matter what they do.

Now as for why, beats me.

Probably not yet.

Reddit has over a decade of content on it, from a much bigger userbase.

Allowing bigots a platform leaves the possibility that they band together, upvote each other, and normalize their opinions on your community gradually until people stop questioning it.

Add on to that the fact the OP on reddit directly receives each comment on their post as a notification by default.

I don’t approve of comments that try to make fun of the userbase while removing their ability to respond, to be clear. But here is the alternative perspective as to why threads would be locked:

When I moderated r/polls, we would occasionally lock threads because we literally couldn’t keep up. If it was a topic that particularly drew out the bigots in force, they would pile in faster than we could ban them. A thread like this could get over a thousand comments if it was one of the top ones that day. The solutions were then either:

• Allow bigotry to fester in the thread for extended periods of time
• Have one or more moderators camp on the thread in real time trawling through new comments, perhaps for hours on end
• Lock the thread

This was on a sub of about 200,000 users, with 5-8 mods. There are subreddits with many times this amount of subscribers, so I can only imagine they might have an even lower threshold for locking.