(I haven’t submitted an official rfc yet, want to see what people think)
This is inspired by Ruqqus, a now defunct Reddit alternative.
The idea is simple:
- There is a “global” or “default” community with no topic or extra rules,
moderated only by admins - Community moderators, when they feel a post is inappropriate for their community can “kick” a post to the global community
The reasoning is as follows: a good amount, probably the majority of posts that are removed by mods, are not removed because they are inappropriate for the site as a whole, but because they are inappropriate for that specific community (off-topic, banned site, low effort, etc.). But currently the only option they have to deal with this is a full blown removal, which is quite frustrating for the poster.
This proposal would allow mods to keep curated communities without needing to do unnecessary removals.
As a bonus, this would create a default community where people can post when they’re not sure where to post something. Posts can be later be crossposted into more specific communities.
While I can see the appeal, it would probably need what amounts to a different system, I.e. not Lemmy.
I’m no expert on how lemmy is implemented, but I don’t see why not. Would probably just involve a post removal + a post creation, with some scaffolding code to handle the uglier details