Be the change you want to see in Lemmy
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Personally I'm totally fine with just hand selecting starter instances rather than trying to maintain a facade of neutrality. So many instances defederate with hexbear that it's a different experience and should probably be an intentional choice for the user.
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Yes, I asked too fast. It was quite easy to find out. Thus said, those are complete reforge of the UI, so that's a lot more work.
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It's worth it! I only read it last year and it gave me a whole new level of appreciation for the other stories.
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I don't have much to say, but thank you for working on lemmy all these years.
I can complain about it a lot sometimes, but I'm very grateful for both the communities and the developers that kickstarted the fediverse, and for free too! So, thank you
️If you or other people want to discuss the development of fedisoftware for beginners, or just growing as a whole you and everyone else are more than welcome at [email protected]!
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It's a great book!
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My old company solved that problem by making everything high priority by default, with efforts directed by the whims of the CTO.
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These aren't global fediverse rules, they're constraints meant to apply specifically to the new user experience on Lemmy only.
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It's so much easier to comment and get replies here.
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create some set of rules for “default instances” - every instance that wants to be in the list must follow them and will be periodically checked
I don’t have any particular rules in mind, but some examples might include active moderation team, obviously registrations being open and if you really want to make it easy, either no application question or having it automatically approved by an automod of some kindThe Mastodon Server Covenant is pretty much what you describe here, and could be used as a starting point: https://joinmastodon.org/covenant
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Honestly, if my PM never pestered me about the status of my tickets, I would never close them. Some of us need the pestering!
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You and you being so nice made me switch to ad hominem faster than usual! How the person like you can be so terribly pleasant? Treat yourself, you fellow lemming.
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As long as it's clearly labeled as something like "a communist instance", why not? Some potential Lemmy users would probably feel right at home. It doesn't even have to be a controversial label, just a factual description that the Lemmygrad people would agree with.
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In that case I agree. The issue I see is people saying "just give new joiners a random instance across the top 20", denying the unique culture of a few of them
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Ah, yes, that makes sense now! If it is an automatic, random server selection, then I also agree that it should be only generic, non-controversial instances that are selected.
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One of the nicest things about these communities is how easy it is to have good conversations with internet strangers.
Maybe at that point people would use the Local feed more when they want to interact with their neighbors?
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The only thing is the community search that is a bit cumbersome, but this is due to federation, and understood.
This would help https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2951
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There'd probably arise a need of a default instance with only guest access for a test drive before they pick their own instance, with some pop ups pointing at the fact that the name [email protected] means he is a part of some meta-subreddit lemmy.ml, that doesn't mean shit for he just helped [email protected] with a link to the source. Their likes are collected but never shown. When they'd want to stop lurking and finally press a login button, it shall instead invite them to see instances of people they liked before first, others next, with tips what lead some rank so high in their list. After the signup is confirmed, their likes may or may not be transported, but their temporal profile is deleted.
I see the natural flow would be something akin to that: we start with a showcase of general content from different nearly-default instances and then get them recs about persons they did enjoy reading.
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As someone who is "stuck" here after being permabanned on all accounts on reddit I can say that the number one "issue" Lemmy has is also the greatest part about Lemmy. The fact that every instance can have its own copy of the "same" sub.
I completely understand why someone coming from reddit is going to search up "ask" and they will see a few ask Lemmy subs coming up. At a glance they won't know which one is "better" and why there are multiple.
Sadly most people will turn around and leave at that point. The average internet user will just go somewhere else the moment they feel lost or confused by anything. The few that might stick through it and make a post asking why there are multiple instances of the same type of sub are likely to be spoken down to by a bunch of condescending nerds that feel superior to outsider idiots. I know that many of you are very kind and welcoming, but enough of the user base are elitist pricks about everything that new users will notice immediately.
Lemmy can't seem to decide if they want to grow or if they want to gate keep. I think the reality is that as more people are blanket banned from reddit without any reason such as myself that people will keep slowly trickling in.
The only "change" I think Lemmy needs is its user feedback. I have been banned from so many subs for completely unrelated things and without going and looking up the mod logs for my own name I wouldnt have any clue whatsoever. I would just think that Lemmy was broken constantly since it just gives you submitting errors instead of telling you that you have been banned or anything.
The "automod" messages are basically useless as they don't tell you what rule you broke, which comment it was specifically or who actually initiated the ban. I know they aren't always actually "automatic" bans because I have gotten messages from automod for comments I left weeks ago. So either they are the slowest and least attentive bots on planet earth or the mods of those subs are using the automod to hide behind as a layer of anonymity.
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Interesting idea
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If you see anything...that could be improved, the best option is to make that improvement yourself.
Are you under the impression that just everyone is a web developer?
Besides it would be impossible to reach an agreement who this default instance should federate with or how exactly it should be moderated.
If I may make a proposition: You can look at how Pixelfed allows certain instances that meet certain standards to opt into being listed in the app for discovery, all electronically. My recommendation would be to have 2 choices for users on sign-up:
- A random choice from the list of approved instances, that's rotated periodically to prevent any particular instance from being inundated with new signups
- "Choose a different instance" where users can enter their preferred one manually.
People can't seem to make up their minds if it matters which instance you join. I really don't think it does.
