So far it seems like people develop around the ideas laid down by social media giants. Rather than replicating, it would be good to see incorporation of healthier options (e.g. time monitoring displayed in app, stopping endless scrolling and keeping to page by page scrolling, avoiding prioritising low effort content (by showing older posts in people’s feeds as well and displaying more that prompts comments rather than just upvotes, etc). Don’t know how they would design to minimise the hivemind…there’s still plenty of that.
I call my real life birthday “cake day.” Because I hate my birthday. But I do like cake.
The only thing that would even make sense to bring imo is a leveling system of sorts, straight from the forums of old.
I suggested such a thing a couple days ago on asklemmy and was roundly shut down. Badges, levels, whatever that would denote longevity and “service” to the communities.
Nope.
And I bet that won’t long
Is there a place where you can see your useless internet points on lemmy. They are only needed to show the general opinion of the thread. It a superior system to reddits bot fueled lies.
Tap your username or check your profile. Comments/posts are there.
IMO the issue is not copying cherry picked good features from Reddit, but to indiscriminately copy features because “since Reddit has it, Lemmy got to have it too”, without paying attention if they actually benefit the Threadiverse.
Bots are one thing like that. Communities could have features built in that was not possible on Reddit since admins are part of the community now.
Good catch on bots - they’re a great example of that, since the underlying idea (less busy work) is 100% worth copying but not the implementation.
In fact IMO Lemmy bots are already a bit too similar to Reddit bots in a bunch of undesirable ways. For example they’re created and kept as “pseudo-users”, instead of tools associated with a (human) user in their profile.
Disagree, cake days are only a fun “easter egg”, and karma doesn’t really exist on Lemmy as far as I can tell.
I would like some geographic filtering, or at least sorting, do I can see local stuff before all the USA election posts.
I literally do not and have never cared about votes or awards.
Enjoy Lemmy Gold, kind stranger!
The beluga prosciuttoes at 8pm
Happy cake day tho, lol
Lol it actually is. Boost for Lemmy doesn’t show it, had to go on his profile to see the date
Voyager (on android) puts a little cake-slice emoji 🍰 next to people’s names. I get tickled because I joined during one of the big exodi from Reddit so I share cake day with a lot of other people.
Let’s get rid of cake day but there is already no karma on Lemmy meaning no general upvote count. It will be much harder to find anything if we get rid of a voting system and the one we have is probably the most transparent and easy-to-understand one 2 opposite force and to possibility to choose neighter.
Cake day is cute
Yes. I mean, just because your stupid neighbour celebrates their birthday, it doesn’t mean you would stop celebrating your birthday just to be different.
Counterpoint: birthdays (and cake days, and many anniversaries) are a pointless celebration.
Payton Oswalt had a pretty good plan on that: https://youtu.be/sbJs-Ul1QFo
How are they pointless if they bring people joy? I know there are exceptions but I’m pretty sure people generally really like birthdays…
Have we really gotten to the point of being demeaning to people simply because they celebrate their fucking birthday?
I will need an explanation of this one. Are you saying that people don’t like birthdays?
Just that once you hit a certain age….its no longer fun to be reminded
Well, maybe he means that you should celebrate actual achievements instead of dates that just happen every year. The YouTube video he linked didn’t tell to completely stop celebrating birthdays. Just limit it to a total of 20 birthdays for most people (you get more if you live really old).
What if you’re working the same 9-5 job five days a week and it pays you well and you’re happy yet you don’t have any new achievements
NO HAPPINESS ALLOWED! GET BACK TO THE COAL MINES!
Did Reddit invent cake days? I thought that was a Digg thing.
I think it’s important for developers to stay active within the community and try to understand how the community uses the tools available and what additions or changes are desired or would be beneficial. Obviously people disagree about what those things are at times, but I think with patience and empathy we can iterate ideas and get to better places.
I see people posting more and more news on Lemmy and I enjoy that, but it does make the need for tools that fight disinformation. Maybe that’s the source-checker bot (feels like a stopgap to me) or maybe that’s a combination of new ui and api features that draw from Twitter’s community fact-checking and how some instances are use bias-checkers.
Moderation tools are always in need of improvement too.
Hey I even think silly shit like emoji reactions and awards have a place for people that prefer less verbal forms of interaction but still want nuance or whimsy.
how do we reward original content?
Toothpaste.
The only thing I miss here are active niche communities. Other than that, it’s so much better than Spez’s data vacuuming service.
