almost stopped using lemmy altogether
I definitely empathize with this
almost stopped using lemmy altogether
I definitely empathize with this
I wish there were a way to lock threads to the local instance.
Might be worth putting this feature in an automod bot in the long term.
Feels pretty exploitative. Hope it goes away without karma as an incentive.
Holy shit this literally killed place
Are you seriously suggesting the Red Scare was fine because two superpowers were, in fact, engaged in espionage against each other?
To be clear, the article is talking about correlations in polling, not suggesting you strike up conversations with your neighbors.
What happened to vlemmy?
I'll be honest a big motivation for posting this is to try to get feminist men active in a dedicated community on Lemmy. Currently there's !mensliberation@lemmy.ca but it's fairly inactive. Trying to give it a bit of a jump start so if anybody feels like that's something they would benefit from please check it out! Also if anybody knows of a similar community with more activity please let me know.
I think a really important thing to consider here is how much of Reddit's culture was a result of bots and dark patterns. I think people will actually adjust fairly quickly and once sign ups start to settle a sort of diffuse equilibrium of cultures and attitudes will form that will generally look very different from Reddit. All that said, I think the foundational culture that we establish now will prove to be incredibly important. I think this is a great argument for why existing communities may choose to stay in the medium-weight class. Thereby avoiding the growth boost that comes from being the largest community.
EDIT: Also important to note, I feel like this is gonna be a slow, slow process. We really have no idea when sign-ups will settle and could be looking at months or days of Reddit hemorrhaging users. I think we'll have a better idea after things kick off on the 30th.
None of these issues are fundamental. They stem from poor planning from the mod team. You cannot moderate all of the largest communities with four mods for ALL communities.
There's no way they can reasonably continue to host the largest threadiverse instances with this plan.
In conclusion you are @PM_ME_FAT_ENBIES in the exchange.