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- Submitted 4 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 23 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Human bias is a pervasive element in many online communities, and finding a platform entirely free from it can be akin to searching for the holy grail. Maybe look into self-hosting an instance and punish moderators who don’t follow their own rules.
- Comment on The playground schematic analogy for designing a fediverse service. 2 months ago:
Sadly, complaining seems to be one of the activities that people like to do the most. I understand the frustration of dealing with negativity, especially when you’ve poured immense effort into developing Lemmy over the years. However, embracing a Complaint-Driven Development approach could help turn critiques into opportunities for improvement. One way to facilitate this could be to establish a set of transparent rules or guidelines on how you prioritize issues and feature requests. This transparency can help manage expectations and foster a more collaborative relationship with the users in your community. While not all complaints may be actionable, actively listening to feedback and explaining your prioritization criteria could go a long way in building trust and goodwill. Open communication and a willingness to consider diverse perspectives can lead to a stronger, more user-centric product in the long run.
- Comment on Surfacing Content from Smaller Communities on Lemmy 2 months ago:
Having shared tags across communities allows for better content discovery and curation based on specific interests or preferences. Users could also easily filter out or avoid posts related to triggering content like their phobias, traumatic events, or other sensitive topics by specifying certain tags they wish to exclude.
- Comment on Surfacing Content from Smaller Communities on Lemmy 2 months ago:
After giving it some more thought, I believe the best way to solve this would be through an API call to fetch metadata from today’s posts. This would include post ID, votes, and comments. By doing so, anyone can experiment on their client with a custom JavaScript Greasemonkey plugin to determine the best way to sort the posts. When a better sorting method is discovered, it could then be implemented in the backend.
- Comment on Surfacing Content from Smaller Communities on Lemmy 2 months ago:
This is not possible because sorting is done in the database, so adding a new sort option requires a database migration with new indexes, columns and updated queries. Not something that can be done with a simple plugin.
@nutomic@lemmy.ml github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3936#issuecommen…
We’ve already mentioned that it isn’t possible. You can’t assign percentages to categories or personalize the sorting in any way since it is done in the database.
It would be beneficial to talk more about these desirable features to ensure that when developers do invest time in them, we’ve already come up with a good and robust solution. Otherwise, we may encounter a situation similar to the Scaled sort implementation, where issues remain unresolved despite the feature being added.
- Comment on Surfacing Content from Smaller Communities on Lemmy 2 months ago:
I want a superintelligent AI that always talks to me about the things I like to hear. That’s a bit farfetched but I also thought it was possible before: Algorithm Marketplace
- Comment on Surfacing Content from Smaller Communities on Lemmy 2 months ago:
It certainly doesn’t help that Lemmy had and still has absolutely no sensible way to actually surface niche communities to its subscribers. Unlike Reddit, it doesn’t weigh posts by their relative popularity within the community but only by total popularity/popularity within the instance. There’s also zero form of community grouping (like Reddit’s multireddits) - all of which effectively eliminates all niche communities from any sensible main view mode and floods those with shitty memes and even shittier politics only. This pretty much suffocated the initially enthusiastic niche tech communities I had subscribed to. They stood no chance to thrive and their untimely death was inevitable.
There are some very tepid attempts to remedy this in upcoming Lemmy builds, but I fear it’s too little too late.
I fear that Lemmy was simply nowhere near mature enough when it mattered and it has been slowly bleeding users and content ever since. I sincerely hope I’m wrong, though.
- Submitted 2 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 22 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 11 comments