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…
NO HAPPINESS ALLOWED! GET BACK TO THE COAL MINES!
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.
I didn’t think karma existed on Lemmy? Or maybe it was removed in ann update?
It exists, your total just isn’t visible to anyone but admins.
its completely public via non-lemmy systems https://moist.catsweat.com/u/@LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
Interesting. Your instance is from another platform, right? Is it Piefed or mbin?
Is this just basically karma or what does it mean?
yep, im coming from an mbin instance. its basically karma… upvotes - downvotes.
it really helps identifying spammers/trolls quickly.
Thanks. I love that we’ve got several active alternatives we can communicate with on the threadiverse now. I like Lemmy but I hope they continue to proliferate.
Does it persist through comment/post removal/deletion?
i believe mbin has cascading deletes, which should alter the aggregation if things get deleted.
Isn’t it worthless though? I mean I could award myself karma on my servers communities or just hack it up.
no. Its great for catching trolls.
it literally hurts no one for existing
Well, in that your upvote total and ratio can be calculated, at least. Does it actually do anything, or can it do anything, like it did on reddit? Subs having minimum karma thresholds, that sort of thing? If not, it’s truly meaningless and can be safely ignored by everyone.
That’s what I do.
how do we reward original content?
Toothpaste.
Or we all hope Reddit continues as it is, not as a hotbed of original content like it was 10+ years ago, but as a place to rehost content found on other sites, and watch it fade into obscurity so better-run platforms can fill the void
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.
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.
The only thing I miss here are active niche communities. Other than that, it’s so much better than Spez’s data vacuuming service.
I literally do not and have never cared about votes or awards.
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.
I would like some geographic filtering, or at least sorting, do I can see local stuff before all the USA election posts.
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.
I wasn’t talking about previous comments or posts.
Did Reddit invent cake days? I thought that was a Digg thing.
I think it would be cool if you couldn’t see the upvote/downvote score until you voted
Yeah thatd be neat. Also I didn’t realize it when I created this account but your server can disable the downvote, both for giving and receiving.
At first I really (really) hated it but now my Lemmy experience is so much nicer because I never have to worry about being down voted for trivial reasons or downvote brigades or anything. Its just so much nicer. I almost understand why Facebook never put in a thumbs down now.
I just disable vote counts from being displayed. I don’t care how popular or unpopular some comment is.
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.
Hell, I don’t even remember my birth but cakes, I do remember
