• Sibbo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      43·
      2 months ago

      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.

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
    29·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
        11·
        2 months ago

        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.

  • Rottcodd@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 months ago

    Strongly agreed.

    I’m reminded of the scene in Groundhog Day in which they have that one day that just unfolds naturally and is so wonderful, and then the next time through, the Bill Murray character tries to duplicate it, and it’s just awful and cringey.

    Lemmy, given the chance, will (continue to) develop its own norms and memes and traditions, and be that much better for it. Just trying to duplicate Reddit here is not only doomed to failure, but cringey.

  • Codex@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    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.

      • kevindqc@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        Lol it actually is. Boost for Lemmy doesn’t show it, had to go on his profile to see the date

        • Codex@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          2 months ago

          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.

  • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    The only thing I miss here are active niche communities. Other than that, it’s so much better than Spez’s data vacuuming service.

  • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    I would like some geographic filtering, or at least sorting, do I can see local stuff before all the USA election posts.

  • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • warbond@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    I think it would be cool if you couldn’t see the upvote/downvote score until you voted

  • Etterra@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    I call my real life birthday “cake day.” Because I hate my birthday. But I do like cake.

  • cRazi_man@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    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.