Lemmy shouldn’t have avatars, banners, or bios

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  • This is already a thing that happens currently. Some admins/moderators don’t like being downvoted and ban people for “vote manipulation” because they vote on things in their feed.

    It is leading to exactly that, where people are worried that using the voting system as intended will lead to exclusion from participation in some communities.

















  • Aa!@lemmy.worldtoFediverse@lemmy.worldHacker News feed
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    1 year ago

    Yes, if you want to see Hackernews posts, get them from Hackernews yourself. Reposting to Lemmy just adds more posts with zero engagement that new users will see and be put off of the site for

    Several months ago we had three different instances with their own Hackernews communities and their own repost bots posting the exact same things, with zero discussion.

    Lemmy needs more actual discussion, and fewer bots adding noise to the feed.



  • Aa!@lemmy.worldtoFediverse@lemmy.worldIs Lemmy growing or shrinking?
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    1 year ago

    A lot of people talk about the decentralization being a barrier of entry, but I don’t think it is.

    Generally speaking, your average social media user won’t care about that one way or the other. You tell them an instance to look at, they will check it out.

    Where I think it goes wrong is the general Lemmy attitude of curating your own feed. Your average Lemmy user will say the best part is that you just block the communities and instances that you don’t want to see.

    Your average social media user on the other hand, doesn’t want to spend an hour or a month blocking people and communities to make the site useable. Most folks will come in, see a feed full of tech bros, repost bots with zero discussion, 30 different fetish porn communities, Star Trek memes, and bottom of the barrel shitposts, and they’ll just leave.

    The only way I see Lemmy overcoming this is for instance admins to heavily curate the default experience so the feed is friendlier to new users. This would likely require some more tools in place to allow for this, possibly even a default block list that users can customize after they are already drawn in

    Also the sorting could be better.


  • From my limited perspective, it seems like the community wants mod support, but they were mad about some combination of these things:

    • Updates and hot fixes don’t come quickly enough
    • Updates sometimes break a large number of existing mods
    • Not enough new features or explicit support for certain mod features being promised
    • Things they promised not working as well as people hoped

    This isn’t everything, but it’s what I observed for myself. As you can see, there’s some contradiction here, and some of that comes from different people in the community, and some of it comes from people who just want to be mad at everything

    For whatever it’s worth, most people seem to be just enjoying the game and are excited for anything new coming for it.