TheSpookiestUser @ TheSpookiestUser @lemmy.world

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I say this on purpose to annoy my friends, especially in situations where it's not needed

The reasonable solution. Understanding that locking it forever would be depriving this instance of a once active community that people have volunteered to mod, but respecting that the original point of that mod team doing so was to try and consolidate instead of creating a competing community.

My only concern now is that some of the people actively trying to escalate the whole situation into an attack on the previous mod team may be the ones running the place. I hope that isn't the case.

I don't think it should be forced, but I think some kind of option for "amalgamation" should be available, either user-side (multireddit-esque thing, etc.) or community-side.

They aren't universally hated. No one likes them, sure, but as with a lot of things the silent majority is in the "doesn't give a fuck" camp. This is the camp Reddit is relying on to keep using the website no matter what they do.

Now as for why, beats me.

It would help, but frankly I think there needs to be more - both because it would be helpful and because, up to this point, Lemmy is mostly following in Reddit's footsteps in terms of features.

Consider a "multipost" option, on top of the existing crosspost. Multiposting something to another community would push the post as-is (no edits allowed) there, then collate all comments across all communities it had been multiposted to into one comment section displayed on all of them. The original community each comment chain originated on could be marked on the parent comment, and child comments could automatically be routed so they originate from the parent community of the chain.

Just spitballing here, but something like this would help bridge the gap a lot more than just a multireddit port.

I did love getting random claymore kills ten minutes after I placed them, but it's probably for the best.

You make good points. I think name squatting and squabbling over who is the "real" community was prevalent on Reddit, and the way it works here fixes that.

But I still think that a downside of decentralization like this is splitting the activity up, sometimes unnecessarily, and making discovery of new communities just a bit harder. It's not a deal breaker by any means, but I think it's an issue that will have to be addressed either by Lemmy UI updates or third parties.

For the record I don't think what OP describes would be right. But I am certain there are better ways to mesh together disparate feeds into one and have all discussion at least be cross-referenced - something better than just crossposting. Because while

1 million users discussing a topic spread out across 1000 communities of 1000 active users leads to more vibrant and meaningful discussions on that topic

May be true, it doesn't hold true at smaller scales; a hundred users spread out across ten communities of ten active users each is pretty much a ghost town.

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It isn’t at all a new concept and I’m not sure why people coming from reddit continue to get stuck on it.

Because having communities with an identical name on different instances will fracture the community. Given the hallmarks of the fediverse this is practically intended, to my understanding, but it is bad for initial growth and coherence of posts. This happened on Reddit as well, of course it did, but the way instances are completely separate and communities can have the exact same name compounds the issue.

I think they were referring to this

Probably not yet.

Reddit has over a decade of content on it, from a much bigger userbase.

I picked back up Team Fortress 2 a few weeks ago, and have been playing it often since. An update for the game came out a bit ago which pumped up the playercount, and it's been a lot of fun playing on the new maps added (pd_selbyen seal my beloved). I may not really like how Valve is pumping the game for mtx while barely maintaining it, but I can enjoy what we do get. Still playing Pyro, Spy, Medic mostly, trying to learn how to play Demoman again.

Been playing BattleBit Remastered with some friends on and off too. I'm definitely not as good at this one, but I'm having fun with the massive 127v127 mode. Went on a massive killstreak with an RPG, with my friend constantly dropping ammo boxes so I could get more rockets.

Universal Paperclips: https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/

It's a semi-idle clicker game, ala Cookie Clicker, but a bit more interactive and very cool. There is a definitive end to it which is nice for this type of game.

Looks like someone else already got to this before I did, but +1 to trying it out.

This is true, but think of it like this:

There was a social contract, an informal agreement, between moderators and Reddit - "We'll moderate for you on this site, for free, as long as you provide a good enough place for the community to exist and enough support to help us out".

This has been mostly worth it for a long time; even during shittier times, mods could be confident that their own space was under their stewardship and so could be protected from the worst that would come.

But now Reddit is being openly hostile toward its moderators, when in the past the most that has ever been expressed is indifference or ignorance. The website is getting worse, and so is the vibe - and so the deal is no longer worth it, so to speak.

That's my thoughts on it, as a moderator there for 6 years who left a few weeks ago.

I cast See Invisibility

You'll laugh until your party goes to their respective homes to turn in for the night and assassins converge on all your locations at once

Never again.

This script clears your posted posts and comments, it's not for your saved items.

There is: https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit

User interface is nonexistent, but it does the job.

Personally I'd love to be the subject of a philosophical problem so I'd say he's probably pretty stoked