Comment on NSFW on Lemmy
rglullis@communick.news 1 day agoWhy can’t we expect that, though? True bad actors are surprisingly rare, and minor fauxpas forgiven.
Because the larger the number of people in the group, the more disagreement there will be about defines “bad actors” and “minor fauxpas”. Right now in this thread people are arguing over whether or not these should be classified as NSFW, for instance.
that was being used an arbitrary example, and the actual goal with browsing /all is to find content you are interested in but previously unaware of
I know you meant meant linux just as an example, but what I am trying to understand is how much of an habit is it for you to get into content discovery mode that you worry about “doing it in public”?
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m not really up for a discussion on the foundational concept of ethos since it’s like 5am here, but conversations like this thread are pretty fundamental to how every human endeavor functions (hence why they’re broadly called ‘forums’). I don’t expect everyone to always do the “right thing” (nor do I want to litigate the minutiae of what “right thing” could mean in this context), but giving up on the entire idea of having a guideline to follow just because some people won’t seems a little defeatist.
Lemmy is still extremely new, and finding new communities to help grow (or even just finding new sources of content to consume, which is similarly valid) is fairly difficult without resorting to the one tool we have to help discover them. I’d wager, without having access to the backend, that right now the majority of users browse by /all since most niche communities only have at best a handful of new posts a week, and that content is exhausted quickly.
rglullis@communick.news 1 day ago
Yeah, I could bet that is the case as well. But while I understand the justification for this behavior, I don’t think that it makes for a healthy one. Browsing by /all because the content of my curated feed is stale seems like driving to a McDonalds after finishing a healthy dinner and I’m not feeling completely full.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
To torture a metaphor, right now it’s more like driving to McDonald’s after having a pretty basic meal two days earlier. I agree that ultimately you’re right, but given just how small most developing communities are, it’s pretty reasonable to look around to find new things to engage with. If nobody did that I think lemmy might just fizzle out as a network, it’s just too small to really support the kind of curated feed we’re used to with larger sites like reddit/twitter/insta. The addictive nature of those sites is a good debate for a separate time, but in this case even getting to the level of “please enjoy responsibly” requires quite a bit of searching around.
rglullis@communick.news 1 day ago
To continue with tortured metaphors: we can always go to the supermarket and cook our own food. If the content on the communities I’m interested is low, I can go to reddit and repost it here, or I can take a look at one my RSS feeds and see if I can find anything relevant, etc.