tildes, which has a very interesting voting system where you can attach a tag to your upvotes or downvotes, such as ‘noise’ or ‘off topic’ or ‘joke’
Oh wow. I didn't realize they were using the slashdot system.
That's the first thing that makes me slightly tempted to try out tildes.
Yeah I realized after posting it they started using that strategy. I really hope it works for them.
IMO the option here would be to open the sub, but implement new rules.
Nowhere does it say the sub needs to be on topic. There are many off-topic subs out there (that news sub that's mostly porn, marijuanaenthusiasts).
From now on, only text posts containing a punchline to the joke "why did the chicken cross the road" are allowed.
I think you're arguing points that weren't made.
Individually owned automobiles and the systems required to support them are wasteful and polluting no matter how you power them.
Electric cars are better, yes. But their popularity is in a large part because they allow us to mostly maintain the status quo.
Do you think they are a sustainable long-term solution? Should we be planning our future around paved roads made almost exclusively for personally owned mostly single-occupant vehicles?
I hope I described it well, I didn't expect it to become a post :)
I'm not sure how applicable much of this would be to lemmy though. The federated nature of the software makes things like meta-moderation a lot more difficult.
For sure, if you want the raw unadulterated experience of the fediverse, that's definitely the right choice.
Personally, I'm not looking to engage with the type of people who flock to 'uncensored' spaces, so I appreciate the admins filtering them out.
Unpopular opinion around these parts, I imagine, but I bought a family sub.
Me and 5? 6? other people get ad-free viewing, the creators get a little more for our views, and no worries about finding ad-blocking youtube viewers for my in law's smart-tvs or my idevices.
edit: after reading the rest of this thread the opinion isn't so unpopular
Yeah, their layout is dated, but the scoring system doesn't take much room (once you accept the idea that a reply can have a subject line):
I don't think you're missing out on much. Most aren't even lemmy instances.
I received this reply about this from Alyaza:
this is because we started using a heavily curated blocklist for the worst mastodon instances (they can interoperate with us). we didn’t expect any trouble from any of them, but any instance in the new batch of banned instances can be safely assumed to be quite bad and it’s better to be proactive than not.
link https://beehaw.org/comment/176651
edit:
checking into a few of the listed blocks now... most of them don't seem to be operating anymore.
yeah they stopped accepting new signups for a bit, i think they said they're like 3500 behind ATM
Not really since I'm on IOS now.
That said, K9 was my favourite android mail client, and I used it up until recently. It was good but always felt like it needed a little extra love to help with bugs. So I think they'll end up with a good product.
I think active moderation is about the only way to discourage bad behaviour on the internet.
Allowed to run free, trolls and racists quickly take over any online space by discouraging decent people from participating.