Excellent question. I think a Hexbear-like abandonment of federating functionality Because Reasons. Federating is at the heart and soul of everything as far as I’m concerned, so that is make or break for me.
And maybe, if it just became a really shallow low effort community. I decided I had enough of Tildes when a commenter there confidently explained and debated at length that MLK jr. would have been a “moderate” in the modern politics sense.
Honestly I’m getting quite sick of the number buttons all over the screen already. If Lemmy keeps cluttering the UI under the fallacy where it’s still comprehensive to the devs who have been here for months I’m gonna jump ship.
karma. one reason we have so much high-quality content here is because there’s no incentive to gain upvotes. upvotes aren’t displayed on your profile and no communities are locked to people below a certain upvote count. if karma were added to Lemmy, we’d get a lot of pandering to the lowest common denominator and the entire community would become stratified
Lemmy originally did have karma (i think we called it something else), but it was removed because it’s parasitic, so you don’t need to be afraid of that one coming back.
Supposing that banning should even be a thing, why would voting be the one action you can take that you shouldn’t get banned for? If you comment in certain ways, you can be banned. If you post certain stories, you can be banned. You can be banned for trying to poke around in non-page urls (hacking), you can be banned for all sorts of stuff.
But if you go around downvoting stories that are relevant to that community, that should be protected? If you go around downvoting comments that are in line with that community, that should be protected?
Given that the only things anyone should probably downvote (spam, blatant abuse) are the very things mods exist to take care of, it’s not even clear that voting should be a thing at all.
What prevents someone from subscribing to a community whose topic/purpose they despise, merely so they can downvote everything in it? That is not a constructive use of voting, and many do that without resorting to bots (so successful anti-bot initiatives won’t do anything about it).
Voting doesn’t actually do anything that any sensible community should want.
Reddit seems to seel votes
They sell votes, explicitly now. You can pay to have ads appear on the front page, and those look like most any other post.
Furthermore, for select clients, they sell these same but not marked as ads.
I don’t know enough about the relevant law to understand whether there are any reporting requirements or not, but if there are they’re just skirting those.
I have no proof I can offer, but I am convinced that this is so.
My search on ddGo yields nothing meaningful about the :
“… anti-suggestions thread”
which is in the head of this post …
What is it ? Would you know … since you refer to : “anti-suggestion” in your comment ?
the two big things that would make me less as enthused about Lemmy, would be the removal of downvotes and making votes transparent (i.e. showing people who voted, and what they voted).
Being forced to see total number of up and down votes
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in the same vein, NFT
That development gets inflexible to support OpenRC and Apache HTTPD by making it dependent of specific features of systemd and Nginx.
Excellent question. I think a Hexbear-like abandonment of federating functionality Because Reasons. Federating is at the heart and soul of everything as far as I’m concerned, so that is make or break for me.
And maybe, if it just became a really shallow low effort community. I decided I had enough of Tildes when a commenter there confidently explained and debated at length that MLK jr. would have been a “moderate” in the modern politics sense.
“Follow us on Facebook and Twitter”
Real name policy (goverment issued ID and such stuff).
Real name policy (goverment issued ID and such stuff).
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Honestly I’m getting quite sick of the number buttons all over the screen already. If Lemmy keeps cluttering the UI under the fallacy where it’s still comprehensive to the devs who have been here for months I’m gonna jump ship.
I don’t really know what you mean? I never used Lemmy up until like yesterday and it was all intuitive to me.
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karma. one reason we have so much high-quality content here is because there’s no incentive to gain upvotes. upvotes aren’t displayed on your profile and no communities are locked to people below a certain upvote count. if karma were added to Lemmy, we’d get a lot of pandering to the lowest common denominator and the entire community would become stratified
Well I still smile at night thinking about the upvotes I got.
Lemmy originally did have karma (i think we called it something else), but it was removed because it’s parasitic, so you don’t need to be afraid of that one coming back.
This, so much of what’s wrong with reddit is the obsession with making internet number go up.
a “this website looks way better in our app” popup on mobile
Yes!! I second this.
Hexbear-style banning based on downvotes
Supposing that banning should even be a thing, why would voting be the one action you can take that you shouldn’t get banned for? If you comment in certain ways, you can be banned. If you post certain stories, you can be banned. You can be banned for trying to poke around in non-page urls (hacking), you can be banned for all sorts of stuff.
But if you go around downvoting stories that are relevant to that community, that should be protected? If you go around downvoting comments that are in line with that community, that should be protected?
Given that the only things anyone should probably downvote (spam, blatant abuse) are the very things mods exist to take care of, it’s not even clear that voting should be a thing at all.
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What prevents someone from subscribing to a community whose topic/purpose they despise, merely so they can downvote everything in it? That is not a constructive use of voting, and many do that without resorting to bots (so successful anti-bot initiatives won’t do anything about it).
Voting doesn’t actually do anything that any sensible community should want.
They sell votes, explicitly now. You can pay to have ads appear on the front page, and those look like most any other post.
Furthermore, for select clients, they sell these same but not marked as ads.
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Not disagreeing. Just pointing out.
I don’t know enough about the relevant law to understand whether there are any reporting requirements or not, but if there are they’re just skirting those.
I have no proof I can offer, but I am convinced that this is so.
“Valid votes” which only confirm your opinion? How do you know they are bots?
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Cheers for fighting downvote bots … … but, but, but : typos !
a yswr ==>> a user
You van pay ==>> You can pay
only votes ==>> only (?true?) votes
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I’m confused. Hexbear got rid of downvotes. Which happens to be my anti-suggestion. Don’t get rid of downvotes.
My search on ddGo yields nothing meaningful about the : “… anti-suggestions thread”
which is in the head of this post …
What is it ? Would you know … since you refer to : “anti-suggestion” in your comment ?
An anti-suggestion is the opposite of a suggestion. It’s something you don’t want the devs to add.
Ah, it’s been a while since I’ve followed the situation so it’s possible my information is outdated.
the two big things that would make me less as enthused about Lemmy, would be the removal of downvotes and making votes transparent (i.e. showing people who voted, and what they voted).
Both interesting ideas, though
Nearly everything that new reddit does. Tracking, huge ads, going closed source, removing dowvotes, vote fuzzing, tons of paid flairs, trying to integrate cryptos …
Do not forget being a tool of USA MIC ;)
Yeah new reddit is so awful it really seems necessary to re-implement the simplicity that was old reddit
Oh, oh, don’t forget forcing an account to read.
That is just horrible.