I do find the idea exhausting to register more accounts just to see content that I otherwise could see on a different instance that hasn’t been posted yet. We’re in an era of the internet where you need a stupid account just to read an article now. No more accounts, please.
You don’t have to have an account in an instance in order to subscribe to communities from that instance. You only need one account and you can subscribe to any community.
Less community repetition. I feel like it spreads out potential members and makes each community smaller with repetitive content. I wish communities could be more linked so they share content and members.
I’ve had a thought, what if clients allowed users to mix and match communities so that they show as one? You could bundle all the gaming communities into one for instance. You’d still see where each publication originates from but they would appear in the same feed
One idea: Community owners can link their community with another, like friend requests between communities. From that point they act like one community with multiple owners. Everything is duplicated, and that includes removing content and banning users. Client side apps can show them as one community.
Link communies. When two communies are linked they act like one with multiple names distributed on multiple instances. This would solve the dublicate communities on different instance problem.
The moderators of each communities posts are responsible for their posts and keep an eye on the moderation by the other community. If one side is unhappy with the moderation of the other, they can cut the link and vice versa.
Administrators act as if the others community’s post are part of the community on their instance too. If there are weird posts, the community gets banned etc.
That’s up to everyone on here to participate in the development of the product!
Alas I don’t think this will happen, people prefer when stuff is done without doing it themselves, because then you need to take responsibilities (myself included)
This is a common wish in F/OSS circles … and then the owners/maintainers of F/OSS projects make the process of contributing anything convoluted, difficult, and emotionally draining (via a whole lot of bikeshedding)^1^.
When F/OSS projects make contribution culture a thing, they’ll get contributors. Until then … ugh. No. They won’t.
^1^ Obligatory example: on a particular F/OSS game server a specific command by default gave this massive wave of output that was, for an average user, 95% useless. It listed things the user couldn’t participate in. AND it listed the small number of things the user could participate in first, ensuring it scrolled right off the screen before it could get spotted. A user with actual UX design experience posted a long and detailed critique, explaining the problems, explaining why the available suggested solutions were flawed, and made a concrete suggestion for keeping existing behaviour with a simple /all switch on the command while making the default useful for 95% of users. From a quick glance at the code base myself, I figured it would take the maintainers two hours tops to fully implement and test the recommended change. It was a trivial change to metadata in the command processor, not even an actual code change.
And she got “well akshuallied” to death. A bunch of programmers with zero knowledge of UX, no perceivable talent for tasteful design, and egos that got bruised by the suggestion that their output wasn’t perfect dumped on this poor woman (the fact she was a woman being, I suspect, a major factor) to the point she’s sworn never to get involved in suggesting anything for a F/OSS project ever again. Because F/OSS communities are just that toxic.
So solve that problem and you’ll get UI and UX designers galore. And maybe get people who’ll document too, provided you don’t tell them (literally!) that their contributions matter less than code. (Because nothing motivates contribution better than telling people doing the contributions that they don’t matter!)
I’d make the culture more like the rest of the fediverse, instead of reddit like as it is now. Too many ex reddit folk have brought the bad parts of reddit culture with them
I totally agree. Lemmy had an awesome, friendly helpful vibe and the reddit exodus had a noticeably negative affect on the nature of the discourse. It became more nasty, more petulant more quipy, and more angsty. Now that people are here, I’m not at all saying they should leave, but maybe read the room and try to be a part of something better. The internet doesn’t have to be a hostile place.
Yeah, the feeling of chatting with considerate adults is slipping. I’ve started doing the Reddit thing of typing out a comment and then hitting the cancel button because I didn’t want to deal with contrarians.
I’d like the “show context” link to work. Maybe that’s just me? It used to work but no longer. It’d be helpful when I go to a post from the reply notification thing. (viewing this on the web in Firefox)
That’s kinda impossible in Lemmy’s current implementation because your ActivityPub person ID is linked to your username (through your /u/ URL)
Mastodon also made that mistake. I believe Akkoma and the *key forks use user IDs so they could theoretically make it work, though I’m not entirely sure on that.
Make the jump, my friend. I did it. This was my reddit name, but I’ve slowly madethis my name basically everywhere, and it’s so nice not having to remember usernames.
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