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I didn't know the creator of Fireside Fedi was here!

It's basically using the tool owner instance to show upvotes and downvotes (admins always see them as their instance needs that information to count votes accurately)

I am well aware of the tool, I sometimes use it myself when it looks like people are manipulating votes.

At the end of the day, it is just that: a tool. What people want to do with it is a different story.

I am not following this whole thing very closely to be honest.

People in general should just be aware that votes are almost public, and behave accordingly.

So that's what I meant, this tool cannot be blocked at the community level, which was what you were saying above.

Votes on Lemmy are public by nature, they are just hidden to the general user but it's very easy to show them.

What other things? For the Fediverse, there doesn't seem to be a large UK mastodon instance: https://mastodon.fediverse.observer/list

For corporate social media, is there any UK based social media?

The community (Lemmy Shitpost) has already decided to ban this tool going forward. The admin DM’d me. This should be banned by Lemmy World as a whole.

How can a community mod ban that tool? It uses federation information, so only an admin defederating the instance used by the tool would prevent the tool from working.

Feel free to join !fedigrow@lemmy.zip to share experience with other community builders

Yes, it's nice to see German, Canadian, Australian, French and all the other instances blossom

No, you have to add it to the post body

Let's just agree to disagree

2500 monthly active users on !unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

https://feddit.uk/communities

https://feddit.uk/ has 400 monthly active users and is as British as you can get

I liked Admiral Patrick’s take on it: ultimately we cannot control others, only ourselves, so he prevents brand-new accounts from being able to make posts in those communities in the first place, knowing that there is such a high likelihood that they are an attention vampire that will leave hurt feelings of frustration (and sometimes even betrayal) in the wake of their passing. But he only controls one instance, so at best it is only a test of what might work at a larger scale.

That could work on support communities, but we don't want to give potential new joiners too much of a waiting time before they can post or comment, this would increase the likelihood of them leaving.

It's true that just keeping a 'deleted' placeholder with all the comments would already be an improvement

Good luck. I know you said you were not a fan of the Mbin UI, but they are already halfway there with Microblogging and Communities (maybe videos even? @melroy@kbin.melroy.org @BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de ?)

It might be easier to contribute there than to start from scratch.

Here's a client for Mbin: https://interstellar.jwr.one/

Mbin has support for both microblogging and communities (so Twitter and Reddit like): https://fedia.io/ Maybe that's something that can interest you.

It doesn't seem too popular, probably because the Twitter and Reddit crowd always had a limited overlap.

Sorry to hear, but that may be lost 😕

Like I said, I can’t force you to see it. The fact that you think it would mean re-engineering the whole platform means you aren’t getting it. It’s almost literally the suggestion of least effort, it’s largely an organizational change that encourages instances not to cope with more responsibility than they can deal with by encouraging decoupling the current structure into two more specialized ones.

You make this about me, but nobody else sees it. As you said, content instance are possible today (admins just have to disable their registrations), but nobody does that.