I think when it comes to blocking people, I can see some improvement there. I’m all about the idea of not adding fuel to the fire in the form of pointless online arguments and conflicts.
I see so many online platforms just fucking fail at the ways they try approaching that issue. Most places would let you block a user but they can still see everything that the blocked user has said. Like that opens the doors to exploiting and archiving. It is one thing if you’re logged out and can see things site-wide than it is still being logged in and seeing what was said.
When I block someone, I want to be a ghost to them. I want them to not see anything I’ve said and I wouldn’t want to see anything they’ve said either. I don’t want to block them and find out they engage me on an alt just with things to continue the bullshit with.
I think the Fediverse has corrected that aspect that, when you log off, you can’t see shit. So it prevents that. Though that’s practiced from the instance I’m on for all I know.
However, when logged in and still blocking people, they can still see what was said by those who blocked them.
Furthermore and this is a bit of a controversial part, is that, I think moderation logs to be open is a bad idea. Again, it is to me, just one more thing to add to the fuel of a fire that isn’t being let to wind down. Because people often jab and joust at others with shit like “LOOK WHUT U DID IN THUH MODERATION LOG!” and that just does nothing but escalate.
I think with some of these kinds of corrections, would promote the idea of a healthier ecosystem for the community.
Exposure maybe? How to attract new eyeballs. Idk how either.
The influx of new users in the last 4 months has shown me there needs to be some disincentive for posting the same regurgitated sentiment-based shit that you see every time you log in. Regurgitated sentiments and memes represent 95% of the content… yes AI bad… Israel bad… Cheese powder face man bad… I feel depressed… I can’t afford a house… robots took my job. How many times can we as a community re-state what we already know to be true.
This is Reddit 2.0 let’s not kid ourselves.
This is Reddit 2.0 let’s not kid ourselves.
What exactly were you expecting? I think the only one kidding themselves is you
Are we in the same reality? No, because the question is what do we need to do to make the Fediverse better.
You being here isn’t one of those things apparently.
It wouldn’t be reddit 2.0 without complaints like this about popular social concerns being popular on social media.
Consolidated frontend for communities to federate their own community with.
Stop with 20 different versions of memes.
One channel to federate the community to a common feed.
And mods may police the feed as they see fit.You can make your own feeds that combine communities on Piefed. No moderator policing though. Not sure what you mean there.
Say mods prohibit links to piracy sites but allow discussion, the mods can moderate the content.
But that front end problem is so typical… :p
Well there are also topics, which are instance admin controlled.
And Piefed moderators can implement URL blocking that could include piracy site sources that would block the entire instance from seeing content from pirate sites.
Problem is…Piefed exclusive.
So doesnt help the FedieverseWell okay, but if these functions didn’t exist at all - they would only begin to exist on one particular piece of software on the Fediverse at some point initially. As has happened here.
I want lemmy to look more exactly like old reddit. Also get rid of the preview button and replace it with “post” or something. It’s completely pointless.
Lemmy has many different user interfaces. You will want an instance that runs the Mlmym UI, like this one:
Onboarding is a nightmare. Any other changes we make are pointless until we address onboarding.
I don’t recommend it to non-techie friends and family for this reason.
Neither do I.
The moment I say ‘Lemmy’ or ‘Fediverse’, it is over their heads. That’s how much work the fediverse itself has go to, to make it more accessible.
Yes. Piefed is just as bad. I can see the confusion on their faces as soon as I say it and I don’t blame them.
I want to have upvotes/downvotes in the modlogs so we can see which moderation actions are popular with the community or not.
Discoverability; both with posts and following.
Also, nuclear blocking and feeds/lists are two things that Bluesky gets right.
When I block someone, I want to be a ghost to them. I want them to not see anything I’ve said and I wouldn’t want to see anything they’ve said either. I don’t want to block them and find out they engage me on an alt just with things to continue the bullshit with.
They can already do this if you block them even if they can’t see what you say. Especially on the Fediverse where people can just create alternative accounts on different instance.
I think the Fediverse has corrected that aspect that, when you log off, you can’t see shit. So it prevents that. Though that’s practiced from the instance I’m on for all I know.
Yes, this is purely your instance. You can see content logged out on most instances.
Furthermore and this is a bit of a controversial part, is that, I think moderation logs to be open is a bad idea. Again, it is to me, just one more thing to add to the fuel of a fire that isn’t being let to wind down. Because people often jab and joust at others with shit like “LOOK WHUT U DID IN THUH MODERATION LOG!” and that just does nothing but escalate.
This is you very much. Open moderator logs massively increase community moderator transparency in the long-run.
I would like to see local feed of other instances directly.
Less of a problem on lemmy but mastodon has a lot of accounts posting anime pictures that are not necessarily illegal but are weird - like children dressed as animals or with animal features.
Not sure if there’s anything you can do about people just being weird but often other users will boost a different post by the account, which will be a meme or something, so the accounts end up on your timeline. If you click through to see more similar memes you get greeted with a profile where they are clearly not a teen but are pretending to be one or similar…
idk I suppose my complaint is that the culture is overly tolerant of creepy behaviour.
I think having open modlogs is great for transparency.
People will routinely play innocent after saying gross shit, getting rid of the record will only make it harder to call out bad actors.
I prefer the way blocks work, if someone is talking shit they cant just block the people calling them out.
I think there needs to be a higher emphasis on real life community building instead of recreating the services that destroyed communities.
We don’t need another twitter clone. We need a marketplace and volunteer organizing software.
I can easily imagine tiny towns, neighborhoods (and even apartments) using a Mastodon server to create a community based social media. Now, whether people would WANT to use that, and if it would just turn into NextDoor, are separate issues.
I think those are great ideas. Event planning is a general-purpose app that can be leveraged for mobilizing political groups. I don’t think there’s really anything like Facebook Groups, unless Friendica has some of that.
Why is it in my many decades of online discussion I have never blocked anyone, yet I see people who somehow think they need it?
Why?
You cant just move on or ignore them? I find it so weird.
I agree. A lot of people are proud of their 100-user-long blocklist. Seems like a weird thing to boast about, to me.
The Fediverse could improve how things are shared. If I wanted to share your post with a friend, I’ll give them this link: https://piefed.ca/c/asklemmy/p/424338/what-do-you-feel-the-fediverse-could-improve-on.
If they’re also on the same instance as me (Piefed.ca), then all’s good. But God forbid they’re on another instance and they want to comment or vote on your post. They would have to go back to their own instance, find this community, and then search for this specific post.
And I know some of you guys are itching to tell me about using a browser extension/script or another front-end to fix this, but this should be officially integrated with every front-end. I don’t understand why there still hasn’t been any integration with something like Threadiverse.
How can a social media grow if you can’t even share posts properly?
- Starter Packs in the MicroBlogVerse (Which is coming to Mastodon!)
- Multis in the ThreadiVerse (Which is also coming to Lemmy!)
