I’ve been looking for a free Reddit alternative and preferably one that was federated. I’m not really sure how federation works with this though. A lot of similar sites are just personal projects that people made as a hobby that lack a lot of important features or the interface was really ugly.
I haven’t seen how to moderate communities though but the Github page says this can be done, which I consider important since I want moderation to be done by communities and users rather then admins. If there’s a quarantine feature similar to Reddit that would be useful too so I don’t just have to ban communities.
Ok so you do mean to incluse user submissions and comments, thanks ! That was not clear to me.
Now, if the idea is really to base the meta on a community, how is its list of communities established? I see two sensible options :
The admin can (un)pins posts, the links of the pinned post make up the list.
A upvote threshold decides which links are on the list. That way it’s really community driven.
Great! …but just in case there’s a misunderstanding: remember submissions in a meta-community are communities. We are not talking about posts with links/articles. In the same way, comments in a meta-community would be comments in relation to that submission (the submission linking a community, not a submission linking an url/article).
Each posted link/article from a submitted community in the metacommunity already has its own comment thread, which is independent of the meta-community existance and is already in the community the posted link/article belongs to. As discussed before, meta-communities have no authority over that.
I don’t necessarily think meta-communities need to allow user submissions (which would be communities) or comments (which would be on community submissions) to be useful. That’s why I didn’t see much point in discussing in this direction.
I just pointed out that they can have it (because you asked for it before).
Personally I think it should be possible to customize in each community which users are allowed to post/comment (if at all). I believe “private” communities is a planned feature too.
I feel we are still not understanding each other.
Note that one thing is “the submissions of the meta-community” (which each will be a reference to a community) and a different thing is “the submissions of the communities that are submitted to the meta-community” (which before I called “posts”… or to be more specific: urls/articles).
The former is moderated by the admins/mods in the meta-community. The latter is moderated by the admins/mods in the respective communities where the posts reside.
I imagine there would be 2 “views”. One that shows the list of communities in the meta-community (and optionally allows users to submit a new community and comment on those submissions) and another that shows the aggregated posts of the communities that have been submitted to the meta-community.
For this latter “aggregated view of the submissions of the submitted communities”, if you wanted to add additional control on what shows there then I guess you could have ways to add “weights” to each community. Maybe, for example, a combination of the number of upvotes to the meta-community submission for that community and the number of upvotes to the submission in the community submitted could be used to decide the order in which the posts show in the aggregate. You could also factor in things like number of subscribers if needed… that kind of detail on how urls/articles are aggregated is something that would require some experimentation to get right.
I think I pretty much inderstand you now. The point of my 2-item list was to draw a line between “communities submitted to the meta community” (which I also referred to as post in that part), and the ones who are actually part of the meta. I was thinking “cutoff” rather than “weight for appearance in the feed”, but the latter is also interesting !