Kasrean

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[–] Kasrean@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah your suggestions and a few more are absolutely necessary to make this a viable platform. I don't think Lemmy or any other alternative is in a reliable enough state right now and almost everyone will just go back to reddit soon. But maybe in a year or so, who knows, depending on the devs (who seem to have questionable takes so I'm not too optimistic).

[–] Kasrean@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not going to stay here if there wont be reliable news feeds for my interest on here.

[–] Kasrean@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

God I know people like that, the most normal social behavior gets interpreted as hostility and is met with aggression.

[–] Kasrean@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I can't fathom setting that possibility of some negative encounters as a higher priority than lemmy becoming a viable platform in general. Users can still block people. I totally get that welcoming diverse communities don't want to get brigaded, and sometimes it's fine to want a retreat or friendgroup where you don't get questioned too much and people have your back. But this just looks like unreasonable levels of fragility and inflexibility to me. Just for a couple of weeks mod more people and encourage users to block quickly instead of making the whole fediverse look like a joke.

Ending this on a little confused rant. In general I don't even understand wanting a full safe space version of every aspect reddit, a couple of identity or politics or friendly-chat focused subreddits should be enough for "recharging", but afterwards it's time to go back out in the real world with different people and some disagreements.

 

Eventually I want organic usercreated content of course, but to get things started it'd be good to at least reliably have core articles and popular stuff be posted so users can feel up to date and have threads to comment in.

 
[–] Kasrean@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

What do those cartel blogs look like?

[–] Kasrean@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

oh no, i should have been specific. i was talking about the popular @lemmy.ml instance & its communities, lemmy.fmhy.ml seems to be a different instance just with a similar name/url.

[–] Kasrean@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

that's pretty aggressive. noone is forcing you to identify with the bad parts of socialism.

[–] Kasrean@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Would be nice if it was "divided" by user types too. Imagine a post about a new Marvel movie and you could view a shared comment thread but also filter to remove "marvel-fans", or see only "cineasts", without leaving the thread. Could lead to more bubbles, but could also make it really easy to see what other bubbles are thinking.

[–] Kasrean@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Looks much better but tbh I still just don't super like that Lemmy face in general.

[–] Kasrean@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Probably just need people or bots to copy over some posts and comments (while giving credit).

[–] Kasrean@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

these are the main things I care about, until a reddit alternative can provide this I'm going to stay mostly or frequently on reddit.

-somewhat reliable news headline feed from relatively neutral, serious center-right to center-left sources with little to no bad reporting/framing.
-reliably hear about social trends, but with some distance to them
-news discussion with some degree of different perspectives, some expertise, so it's not just all left to the popularity of the headline.
-discussion of movies and tv that is neither too fanboyish/popular leaning nor too indie/arthouse exclusive.
-collections of helpful pro-consumer information and resources, up to date megaposts in hobby communities
-a search function that will often enough lead to some helpful comments for most topics, googling "reddit xyz" was my go to for many years
-feeds for some types of videos, like publicfreakout, livestream clips.
-some communities that are more personal to me, like from my country or a political meme community, for venting and in-group discourse.
-control over what i see in my feeds, most recommendation algorithms and trending tabs just don't work for me
-control over where I engage with content and in what form it's presented, often I take a break from scrolling social media except for seeing some top posts in my rss feed. at some point I just want AI to read out summaries of all that stuff to me and actually visit website interfaces way less often myself.

[–] Kasrean@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Not sure, I would assume everything is just gone. Would be nice if powerusers could sometimes mark comments and posts as significant and some archive project agreed to fetch and store those at least (highly upvoted explanations, jokes, memes). Or I guess a couple of instances that only allow "best of" reposts from other instances would also work.

 

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