Probably need to be client side tbh but when someone mass posts the same article across multiple communities and instances I only see it once with a list of where its posted if you go into it.
Yeah, one post and links to the different comment sections below it
If they use the crosspost feature this should already happen. Of course no apps support that yet to my knowledge.
I want a consistent identity on the internet, where all of my fediverse accounts are linked
That’sa bigger problem than lemmy. But also, yes.
Also a very precarious idea imo. It makes an easy target for social engineering, targeted marketing, etc.
I assume if a nefarious actor made an instance to sell behavioral data, they would have a field day if every account of a person was linked.
Edit: The idea in itself is good. For that we need to make assembly, sale and possession of behavioral data illegal.
Yes, but I might have several of these accounts to separate my identities, so I might not link the most used one to your instance, but a throwaway one
Alt text for blind people in images, a la Mastodon.
Could this be solved with an app?
I’m not sure but I don’t think so. It would require the server to store the alt text for the picture.
And it would also require people to actually use the feature. I still don’t know how Mastodon managed to pull this off in this regard…
And it would also require people to actually use the feature. I still don’t know how Mastodon managed to pull this off in this regard…
By making it convenient on the tech side, and having a cohesive enough culture that any newcomers from the many Twitter migrations just did the right thing because that was the norm when they joined.
I myself won’t boost anything that doesn’t have alt text for example. (Which is still surprisingly common despite the reputation of Masto being well-alt-texted)
Got it.
Well, Lemmy already kind of has its own culture, and it didn’t catch here yet. But I hope that, if the feature gets implemented, we manage to spread its usage.
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There’s still some “wider” culture here. Specially in this topic (accessibility), given that at least some redditfugees left as Reddit Inc. was showing a middle finger to its blind users. And from further checking, alt text for images is already implemented:
If the pic above doesn’t load, it’ll show “The Lemmy logo” instead. But in no moment the interface tells you “hey, add alt text” (there’s a feature request for that though). It doesn’t show on mouseover either, as in Mastodon, and I think that this is important (it shows non-blind users that the alt text does something).
As such there’s still a good chance that this spreads across Lemmy, if implemented better.
I do agree however that Lemmy is more focused on instance culture than the platform-wide culture. That’s visible for me as I’ve noticed that, usually, users behaving too “Reddity” tend to cluster on certain instances, and avoid others. That sounds like a compromise between large scale and seeking what the link calls “the dense, interconnected pattern that drives group conversation and collaboration” - let the kids use the platform, but somewhere that it won’t hamper adult discussion.
Though I’m still curious about how distinct of a culture Lemmy had that was distinct from the culture on an instance (with the corresponding “the only way to categorically prevent the culture of another instance from spreading to another was to defederate”).
The relatively higher barrier of entry of the platform as a whole selects people who are a bit more prone to discuss tech, in detriment to other subjects. And even considering your typical user in “reddity instances”, he might look dumb in comparison with the rest of lemmy, but he’s still an IQ 9001 in comparison with your typical redditor.
(I’m still reading the .pdf, saved it here. Thanks for the link, it looks interesting. As of yet I’ve focused mostly on the part that you mentioned to be relevant for this discussion.)
Support for user blocking by instance.
Increased participation in software development, UI design, UX design, documentation and guides (including wiki and join-lemmy).
To make all the other things become reality :]
That’s up to everyone on here to participate in the development of the product!
Alas I don’t think this will happen, people prefer when stuff is done without doing it themselves, because then you need to take responsibilities (myself included)
That it’s filled with Marxists.
Fact
I’d make the culture more like the rest of the fediverse, instead of reddit like as it is now. Too many ex reddit folk have brought the bad parts of reddit culture with them
Less community repetition. I feel like it spreads out potential members and makes each community smaller with repetitive content. I wish communities could be more linked so they share content and members.
How does moderation work this way?
One idea: Community owners can link their community with another, like friend requests between communities. From that point they act like one community with multiple owners. Everything is duplicated, and that includes removing content and banning users. Client side apps can show them as one community.
I’ve had a thought, what if clients allowed users to mix and match communities so that they show as one? You could bundle all the gaming communities into one for instance. You’d still see where each publication originates from but they would appear in the same feed
Pretty sure Summit is the only one to implement that so far.
This is probably not 100% lemmy’s fault but interoperability with other branches of the fediverse could be better. For example, i can create posts and subscribe to lemmy communities from my pleroma instance but federation of posts and discussions from lemmy to pleroma is somewhere inbeteween “unreliable” and “nonexistant”, depending on the moon phase or whatever. Sorting that stuff out would be crucial for making lemmy communities a real fediverse-spanning, platform-agnostic thing.
add some damn good mod tools. lemmy will die if the user base grows and the mod tools do not.
Removal of hexbear and lemmygrad. Perhaps they should piss off to their own website and let people with working brains shitpost in peace
I’m familiar with lemmygrad, but what’s Hexbear?
If you really have a problem with those people, instead of complaining you should move to an instance that’s defederated from them.
Many of the big players have.
I’d like the “show context” link to work. Maybe that’s just me? It used to work but no longer. It’d be helpful when I go to a post from the reply notification thing. (viewing this on the web in Firefox)
There was a version of Lemmy that broke that. Make sure your instance is on the latest version as it should be fixed since.
The ability to make comments on my profile private so that no one can see what else you commented when someone goes to your profile.
Is there any point since there will be instances and websites that allow people to look you up? Not to mention there will be people who will archive everything on Lemmy. (Just like on Reddit)
Even votes aren’t private and an instance could be setup to collect that data and make it viewable.
Lemmy has an extremism problem. Partly because of the lack of moderation tools (which is why a lot of mods supposedly left reddit in the first place) and partly because of the lack of moderation, or straight up complacency of some mods.
Link communies. When two communies are linked they act like one with multiple names distributed on multiple instances. This would solve the dublicate communities on different instance problem.
Beautiful. But it would be tough to make moderation work. Administration too, for that matter.
I think it could work like this:
The moderators of each community are primarily responsible for their posts and keep an eye on the moderation by the other community. If one side is unhappy with the moderation of the other, they can cut the link and vice versa.
Administrators act as if the others community’s post are part of the community on their instance too. If there are weird posts, the community gets banned etc.
I think Linking would be great.
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