Lemmy shouldn’t have avatars, banners, or bios

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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • Aa!@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldPhone noises
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    4 months ago

    As someone who has had 8 different cats over the years, I can verify this is not necessarily true.

    In my experience it usually meant the cat preferred running water over standing water in a bowl. Sometimes it meant the cat didn’t like the size or shape of their bowl.

    Sometimes it means your cat is a defiant nut who doesn’t like things you put out for him, but will gladly drink out of the dog’s bowl, a glass of water, or the toilet.



  • I’ve said before, but part of my biggest gripe with Lemmy is the process of curating a decent feed. A lot of new users will see the mess of posts in All, including political extremists, an ever growing list of fetish porn communities, and bottom of the barrel shitposts, and they won’t be interested in spending a couple hours blocking and subscribing to things before the feed is usable.

    One way to address this is to give instance admins better tools to curate a default subscriptions and block list for their users. Allow admins to create what they think is the most accessible feed, but also allow users to customize it as they see fit.






  • It isn’t censorship if you can just turn it off and see everything. It’s a warning for people who want to browse at work but not view content that can get them in trouble

    Just turn it off and ignore it if it doesn’t apply to you. The rest of us want the tag to be used for its purpose.


  • Aa!@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldNSFW Tag for drug use?
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    7 months ago

    Which you can easily turn off if you don’t browse Lemmy at work.

    Just because you don’t use the tag for its intended purpose doesn’t mean everyone doesn’t. The tag has a clear purpose, denoted by what it stands for. Most people with adult jobs understand its purpose. Don’t ruin the tag’s purpose for the rest of us by devaluing it



  • Aa!@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldNSFW Tag for drug use?
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    7 months ago

    What do you think the tag is for?

    People at work don’t (shouldn’t) click on NSFW-tagged content. If it draws your eye even more, then I assume you don’t browse from work.

    How would it defeat the purpose to tag content that most workplaces would not be okay with? If you don’t mind seeing the content, then the tag might entice you. People at work will recognize it and not click






  • For me it’s been the people trying to turn this into a carbon copy of their Reddit experience. I get the desire to fill the void after leaving Reddit, but this is a different place with a different group of people and a different social dynamic. We don’t need copies of the subreddits we had on Reddit. We don’t need separate communities for every type of meme or joke like we had over there (yet). Creating niche communities is a little premature when we don’t even have the larger ones reading critical mass yet.

    And to a much lesser degree, I would like to stop seeing people say “sublemmy.” But at least I understand how we got there. “Community” is such a generic term, it’s easy to not realize that’s what they’re called.