It's a per-instance setting. Downvotes just go into the void, here.

I also think it's a good idea. If downvotes were just used as a way for communities to self-moderate it might be nice, pushing things that are objectively not contributing anything valuable out of view. But in reality they're used as a disagree button at best, and in harmful ways at worst.

We just use the report button if something is truly out of place.

The comments are worth a giggle but the AI voice ruins it. Also horrible choice of music.

People got banned for responding to a post by the admin herself titled "Neopronouns are not trolling". They literally started arguing with an admin right then and there about whether some user's identity / pronouns are valid. I don't know what other outcome you expect.

We only insist on using the correct pronouns. What's the purpose of arguing the validity of a supposed troll's identity when there's plenty of actions to criticize? How often do we need to tell you that the correct response to a trolls is NOT to start misgendering them or similar, before you get it?

the admin was tricked into enforcing flawed rules to an absurd absolute

This is where we disagree. As far as neopronouns go, drag/drag is still pretty tame. It doesn't take a lot of effort to just go along with a persons preferred way of being referred to, in a space where doing so is expected. You're not supposed to decide on your own whether it's worth respecting depending on whether you think this person is a troll.

The reason? There's plenty of people out there, say on the spectrum, who often have trouble with being mistaken as a troll, for lack of being able to state their opinions and thoughts properly, or any other reason. I have personal experience with one such person. And their identity deserves to respected just the same as anyone else, even if their takes and opinions you are free to argue with.

Even if you know someone's obviously faking being trans (Josh Seiter comes to mind), it doesn't hurt anyone to just go along with using the pronouns they asked for, while criticizing them where it actually matters.

As a counter example, Vintage Story seems to be doing okay regardless.

They delibarately decided to not be on Steam.

edit 2: They do run their own store, but it's a bit janky, has less payment options if I recall, and no regional pricing.

edit: Besides, one of the reasons indies like to be on Steam is because Steam basically does free advertising for you, with Discovery Queue and just generally pushing games that do well to more people (beneficial for Steam also, of course). But that's a service that's paid for by that 30% cut (among other things).

https://github.com/godotengine/godot-docs

This is the source for Godot's documentation. You could clone the repo (in reST format) or download one of the releases (in HTML format) offline, so you wouldn't even need to query anything online.

Do the admins of that site receive a report if one of their users reports something?

Reports go to four places:

• The community moderators.
• The admins of the instance the community is hosted in. (lemmy.sdf.org)
• The admins of the instance the reporting user is from. (discuss.tchncs.de)
• The admins of the instance the reported user is from. (also lemmy.sdf.org in this case)

So yeah, the admins of discuss.tchncs.de acted in this case. Why? I'm not sure.

(cc @qrstuv@lemmy.sdf.org)

Regarding what I called a "witch hunt", it seemed like some users quickly jumped on board accusing the previous owner of the libertyhub community of intentionally misgendering a user, when it appeared to be a singular slip up ("you" instead of "You"), that he quickly apologized for and fixed. Maybe there were valid concerns regarding the moderation of that community and it was indeed the right choice for the owner to step down – I am totally missing the context for this – but I felt like there was a large focus on the wrong issue that might've driven him away from Lemmy.

There used to be this service called Flattr, and it's still around, but I'm honestly not sure how it works anymore. The way it used to work is you set a monthly amount you're willing to contribute, you get to specify which projects to support, either one time, or recurring, and then your contribution is split up between the projects you chose to support.

I don't know if this is an ideal system, because some creators might end up staying unsupported even though people are using their creations, others end up reminding their audience constantly to use the service and support them, so they end up with more than a similar creator not reminding their audience.

In the end, I think the best thing for all creators would would be universal basic income. Everyone is taken care of such they can survive and pay for necessities, and then they can just create stuff for others to enjoy, for free. (Oh, the humanity!) No trying to convince people to share part of their hard-earned money just for basic survival.

I've noticed myself using a lot of parenthesis, sort of to better represent my thoughts as I'm trying to put them into words. Lately, I've tried to use them less, because I'm not sure how well it comes across to things such as screen readers – or just in general. So now I use dashes instead.

Surely you know more than the lawyers Dolphin got help from.