Small request, when we come around to voting for the nominees, can we get to see the three of them not just as is, but also a mock of how they'd look if they were included in an iPhone and Samsung home screen? Those are the two most common types of phones, so I think it's super important to see them "in action" before making any communal decision, and I don't think doing more mocks than those is an entirely good idea since this might not be the field of expertise of the dev.
Well, on reddit, I was only ever banned from one community, that being /r/worldnews.
And I got banned because there were hours old comments by users there basically stating it was a good thing that old people were dying from covid. They were downvoted, but still, not enough, and no one had the guts to say it so I did: I told them that they were plaguespreaders and a blight on humanity, and should improve it by killing themselves, and the fact they weren't already banned was a gigantic shame for the website.
Which I stand by.
The mods then banned me (after I got like 50 upvotes in a couple minutes proving people paid attention to the comments but didn't realize how nefarious they were) but... didn't ban the other users. That is until I complained about it elsewhere and basically highlighted how terrible the mods of that subreddit are. THEN they got banned.
They still didn't unban me and I wear that ban with pride. I am 100% aware that I triggered an automated ban on myself. Which is, actually, the de facto bad experience I bring to the table: One of the largest subreddits, filled with nothing but """powermods""", is being left completely unmoderated and easily free to be astroturfed by coordinated bad actors. This is effectively the same as being tolerant of them
My one political stance on social media is no one should ever be allowed to moderate more than 3 communities.
I saw a game that fits this bill mentioned on two videos recently. It's called BABBDI and you explore a eery city where everyone you meet can't move other than to twist their heads to look at you. Nothing ever puts you in danger and that's established right away. But everything looks... Off.
I didn't really think much of it myself, but when I joined, for like two weeks, joining instances was a bit harder due to some being closed and others having sporadic downtime. So one very common joke was people saying "Lemmy In! LEMMY IN!"
Butting in again to complain that most apps STILL auto-load images in comments with no way to disable it.
A travesty.
I want to move away from voyager, I really do. But I can't as long because I just know someone will post that 720x38900px tall zelda fanart and ruin a whole thread. Or goatse.
That's the neat part: We're all browsing the same content.
People who call this whole thing complicated are just, I dunno, incapable of understanding the concept of logging in? It doesn't matter what door you go in, it's all (mostly) the same room.
I dunno what I could have done, everything I try to have an impact on is always a pittance compared to the size of the problem, but I know what I can do going forward.
I'm quitting. I'm having zero children. Good luck, have fun the rest of you.
I think this is very close to the most solid answer possible. Like
This is Bad content
I agree completely with this bit. Downvotes are inherently subjective, as is the concept of Bad content. But to make a choice of what to downvote, someone has to identify something worth deeming downvotable, and screw it, that's a good way to deacribe what the majority of what falls under that umbrella.
The next bit is where I'd make a correction.
which I want others to see less of
You can't unsee that bad content, it's too late. And you can't guarantee that downvoting will dissuade its continued presence. The only correlation between the two involves an expected emotional attachment between the posters of the bad content and their scoring outcome, and that's not always here nor there. Bad content posters can be persistent.
But downvoting it has an immediate effect on the visibility of the Bad content for other people. It also labels that content. Doing so, puts it away from other people's eyes, and tells others that someone thinks it should be put away. Maybe they'll come to agree or disagree with that downvote, maybe it'll lead to you seeing less content. Also no guarantee. But that immediate effect, the visibility and the score, can not be taken away.
In either scenario, it's a communication tool. It may relate to your wishes for content, but mechanically, its impact is felt by a third party.
Yeah, at 7k+ hours, my Dota time dunks on pretty much 90% of the people in this thread. And I'm still not tired of it. It's a daily ritual type of game.
Thing is, the time I put isn't even close to the time of several of the people I've met.
Any mentions of Krita on the internet come attached with one of two conversations.
How good it is, for how more obscure it is versus other art. Often put alongside Paint Tool SAI in the tier list. With 90% of the onlookers claiming to not have ever used either of course.
A weird, borderline unhealthy obsession with discussing the necessity of software mascot characters.
And the latter is then split absolute evenly between nerds who for some reason really dislike Libre Office's mascot and want to shit on all software mascots. And between people who want to fuck her and also fuck anything ever designed by Tyson Tan. And I gotta say, you freaking degenerates, I WANTED to play Freedom Planet 2 but every time I think of that game I also think of this shit and how one of you made this gigantic copypasta about the bat girl and....
With a catch: If it's something absurdly popular, then no. Something like Google Maps, you really don't have to say why it's both surprising and unsurprising that it manages to be ad free. The whole conversation is self-evident and no more words are needed.
I wonder what's the largest that defederates with the most.
I also wonder what's the largest that gets defederated the most.
I know both have very subjective ways to measure the metrics, but still, there must be some sort of answer.