Try to make my community or technical contribution as cool and useful as possible. IMO the utility of Lemmy is really the ability to connect with other people all around the world based on our interests. The money is only important insofar as the devs and admins need money to eat.
Reddit is a business, one of whose least important goals seems to be maintaining a safe online space for humans to chat. Lemmy isn’t about the money; it’s about the people.
I have a few ideas for things that might be cool, but none of them are “silver bullets” that will make everyone immediately come over to Lemmy, and frankly they’re not special. IMO we need to slowly, “organically” create communities and technical infrastructure that people want to come to.
It’s really nothing interesting, but here’s some stuff that I think might make Lemmy cooler, but also don’t take this too seriously since I’m not in a mindset where I’m ready to code this stuff myself:
More characters in profile bio. Too short!
Direct democratic election of moderators for communities as a built-in option. For example, mods can be voted in or out somehow by community action.
In general, multiple possible built-in technical structures to support multiple social structures.
LaTeX support because I’m a math nerd.
Again, none of these are silver bullets, and IMO it’s more important to get the core features right first.
Nope, sorry. I am not socially competent enough to know how to moderate a community of any size. But it sounds like a cool idea, so I hope you find good mods soon.
Try to make my community or technical contribution as cool and useful as possible. IMO the utility of Lemmy is really the ability to connect with other people all around the world based on our interests. The money is only important insofar as the devs and admins need money to eat.
Reddit is a business, one of whose least important goals seems to be maintaining a safe online space for humans to chat. Lemmy isn’t about the money; it’s about the people.
I have a few ideas for things that might be cool, but none of them are “silver bullets” that will make everyone immediately come over to Lemmy, and frankly they’re not special. IMO we need to slowly, “organically” create communities and technical infrastructure that people want to come to.
Now you got me interested what are your ideas that are not silver bullet or in your opinion is a silver bullet?
It’s really nothing interesting, but here’s some stuff that I think might make Lemmy cooler, but also don’t take this too seriously since I’m not in a mindset where I’m ready to code this stuff myself:
Again, none of these are silver bullets, and IMO it’s more important to get the core features right first.
YEEESSSSSS!!!
Would you like to help me mod ama requests?
Nope, sorry. I am not socially competent enough to know how to moderate a community of any size. But it sounds like a cool idea, so I hope you find good mods soon.