Hear me out: Had these ideas to ensure lemmy doesn’t derail into a short video/meme spiral like every other social platform
- Additional (more specific) up/downvote buttons.
Like “original vs generic”, “low effort vs detailed”
Not only can we ensure the engagement doesn’t derail into an X-like anarchy or Instagram meme fest, but we can also then sort comments by parameters (ie. you’ve seen 20 pun comments about the headline and broad topic at hand but want to see actual thoughts about a linked article)
Another idea:
- Instances are commonly offering donation buttons since they need to fund the servers. What if we tied cosmetic “superlike” awards to donations.
Thoughts? Very interested in your inputs/adaptations to my ideas or other cool concepts you have to ensure lemmy staying solid while growing
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Personally, I’d just like to see up/downvotes replaced wholesale with emoji reactions.
Downvotes are a dark feature designed to excuse Reddit (and YouTube, etc.) from actually moderating their platforms under the guise of “social” moderation, but it’s actually something that stifles speech that challenges the consensus, rather than preventing toxicity.
Meanwhile, custom emojis are another way for instaces to differentiate themselves.
Downvotes are a dark feature designed to excuse Reddit (and YouTube, etc.) from actually moderating their platforms under the guise of “social” moderation, but it’s actually something that stifles speech that challenges the consensus, rather than preventing toxicity.
They can be disabled on Lemmy but it has to be done at the instance level. Our instance has them disabled. Not a perfect solution but it does help address this issue.
I miss Facebook style reactions so much, one of the best features they came up with. It’s a shame everything else was garbage, including the company hahahaha
A more detailed system than up/downvote would indeed be nice
For donations, Dbzer0 already has those flairs: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/16077426
I think I like the idea but shouldn’t we worry it would make it harder to use? I mean, people are lazy… if they are forced to hesitate each time they want to vote for a post or a comment, they’ll simply find a shortcut which probably means they’ll go for the biggest/first button they can click. Something like that.
Also, I’m not sure vote will really change any deep trend (which by the way is one of the reasons I steered away from other social media). If people really want to share memes and low effort content can we really prevent it?
You could have Funny, On-topic, Disrespectful, like emoji réactions on group chats
Well in an ideal world, it might reduce the average amount of upvotes a post/comment gets, but provides more meaningful insight into the communities reaction.
lazy people can just stay on tiktok(or in this case reddit), i dont see the problem
“bro is” comments contribute nothing and on the long run are just degrading the quality and average intellect of the hivemind (see reddit, less and less critical thinking happening)
also its literally just an extra button you CAN click and look at, you can also choose to not do that, no?
