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I feel like Fediverse users are nicer to each other and more generous with upvotes than reddit. (self.showerthoughts)

submitted 11 months ago by LemmyBe to c/showerthoughts

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i’m doing it because I want to make the fediverse more friendly place, in hopes of making it more welcoming for new users, and the nicer place in general. But I wonder how much is just less bots.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It’s the same crowd and over time they will be identical. The power of moderation is the only thing that keeps nastiness in check.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

If we build to act like Reddit and keep consolidating as we grow, you're right

But I think as we grow, we need to add in mechanisms to decentralize. When communities or servers get too big, it'd be nice if we had a way to split them, divide up the users and mods, and migrate them seamlessly.

Right now I think fomo would kill this, but if we had a way to manage federation of multis so everyone can see the top posts of both while still seeing more of the lower ranked local content, I think we could get the best of all worlds

Imagine this - with some clever statistics, we can look at your upvotes (and maybe comments), then put you with that share your take on the topic. Or let communities split on an issue divide before things get nasty

If you like the memes, you get put with the memers, but still see the hottest news and interact with the full community on those posts, and vice versa. And if you really want to be in both, you could do so without doubling up content.

I've had this idea percolating through the back of my mind since I learned how Lemmy worked, when things stabilize a bit more I might take a crack at it