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Jarix@lemmy.world 1 day agoKindly I disagree. It was very helpful to find stuff that wasn’t what I already knew I wanted especially as I came from Reddit as one of the earlier refugees after the API thing.
Given how small and in development Lemmy has been, it was a good thing to keep showing me that I made a good choice and that this federated thing ISNT Reddit and has its own value to give if I can just get a little bit of help find finding stuff.
Now it’s been sometime but I think on by default is still a good thing. I’m also okay with making it super super easy to turn off and be reminded/prompted to do that as well.
If it’s no longer a needed thing I might be convinced that the on by default state has passed the value I found in it, but I am not ready put the effort into that at this time.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I definitely understand your reasonings for that. And I do agree having it default on does help raise awareness of communities.
My main reason that I’m against a default on is I’m always strongly against any type of action that does something on the behalf of someone else without it properly being relayed.
if the person who made the community wanted to advertise their community, they could reach out and send a message on their own, or they could turn it on, but having it default on creates cases like this, Where they weren’t even aware that it was making a group, it seems, until people started messaging them complaining about the amount of spam.