Spiffy Diffy

They won’t like us. After all, there’s no conflict or outrage here for them to profit off of.

Oh but now that I think about it, I coincidentally started coming here way more since about a week ago too, so I might not be the best judge.

I haven’t noticed a difference yet. I guess that’s a good thing. 😛

I personally feel that instead of having a standard for tags in the title, Lemmy should just have a “tags” field for posts. Then the tags can just be displayed in a consistent way everywhere, and maybe it can even be customizable.

Having “tags” in the title is really just a workaround for the lack of an actual tagging system. Solving that core problem would solve this one too, as least the formatting part of it.

trace.moe has frequently been useful to me. You really gotta mess with things to get it to recognize the screenshots though.

It makes me wish there was a softer form of blocking. A sort of “all veto” that doesn’t actually block everything from a community, but just stops it from showing up in “all”. There are communities that I’d rather not see in all, but might occasionally want to go to to check out, but blocking a community completely removes everything so the community’s just empty.

It feels a bit too much like YouTube and the removal of the dislike button to me.

That was a crucially different situation. On Youtube, users didn’t control communities or make the rules, so disliking, even though it had many issues, was the only way to discourage bad content. Things are different here. Individual users have much more control so downvotes aren’t needed like they were on Youtube. You don’t lose much except the downsides.

Downvotes seem to only spread negativity and discourage contribution. as others have said, you can just report posts if they’re breaking the rules, so I don’t really get the point of downvotes anyway. Better posts will rise above it even when downvotes are disabled.