Me over at comedyheaven lol
Keep up the grind man
Hey I remember that community! I came across it the other day when I was doing ‐
... research.
Sounds like a really bad day for that middle manager.
Always impressed with your color schemes, and I enjoy the timeliness of the corporate influences
Is it not because of hexbear deforking?
Wow it's almost like we're in a text-based platform where tone can be confused and there are certain markers we use to indicate tone. But that's cool we can just resort to being smartasses instead of discussing like adults
Someone else kinda brought up the idea of just adding topic tags to posts, that way the good parts of the current system will remain in place, but users can also browse by topics. Maybe that's a solution?
You have a good point! Maybe the best idea for connecting communities more is a system of customizable content tags. That would preserve all the good parts of the current system while adding some better cross-community connection
I didn't say reddit was a centralized heaven I was simply pointing out that reddit's model shouldn't be followed strictly here. It's a hypothetical design discussion, not a big deal. If you feel strongly enough about that you struggle to discuss without cussing at others in all caps, maybe you should log off and take some time to chill out :)
Dang, haven't bought any since pre-2010. Cards look pretty different these days. They look great though!
the idea of wanting to recreate Reddit is bad.
Absolutely, and this isn't my suggestion anyway. I think this comment section is a good highlight to how many different end-goals make up the fediverse. As you pointed out, a major goal of federation is to guard against the internet being co-opted by monolithic influences. The primary guard against this is everyone's distribution across multiple servers - even our own - preserving our ability to cut any server that becomes compromised.
However, another end-goal is that of lemmy and kbin: to be link and content aggregators. An aggregator is meant to bring things together in one form or another for the user to consume. I think the current format works against this goal, and could be better served by the tag system I theorized without sacrificing federation any more than we're already doing (and smaller, less popular tags would still exist for those who want to participate in smaller communities).
This approach is actually less like reddit than the current one. As a lot of people pointed out, having moderators for monolithic tags could be a potential threat to federation. As such, another approach could be implemented. Purely brain-storming
thepiratebay... [is] so much better
the megathread is next to useless
Hot-take city
Absolutely, I've had that feeling myself. Hence my shouting into the void in hopes of inspiring myself by inspiring others haha