Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.

• bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s more a feature for a client app.

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I mean, people do use the Web UI.

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    • bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      There’s more than one web UI.

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  • 4am@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m not in a rush to endorse client apps adding large, experience changing features. That will radically alter the way different users interact with the service, they might need two apps to get all the features they want, etc

    Sounds like a good way to make things even MORE confusing for new users.

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    • bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’ve been on Lemmy for a while and still find the duplicate named communities on different insurances confusing. The number of users only somewhat. There are lots of communities still listed from dead instances like feddit.de.

      Unique names for communities would be helpful.

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      • 4am@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Community names are unique if you account for the instance name.

        This is a bit confusing as usernames follow a similar, email-address-like format.

        I would enjoy there being just one community for a given topic that spans all instances, and moderators can either take actions that are instance specific or “global” (happen everywhere) but again that can get complicated fast. Who gets that global power? What if there are disagreements? Can an instance revoke a global action for just their instance? How much extra work does that create? How do instances handle backend storage for stuff like that (do you want CP deleted globally? I’d imagine so because it’s illegal to store it. Who decides to block an instance out of a community for posting offensive/illegal content; and how do you prevent all that from being abused for non-offensive content that instance mods find disagreeable?)

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• GhostlyPixel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I wonder how moderating would work in a merged community. Would mods not from instance X only be able to hide a post from that instance from the merged community, or would they have power to remove a post from another instance? I’d imagine that is one of the hiccups of a feature like this, it is a shame it has been collecting dust though

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