signatures were very dividing, a community usually had them or they didn't and there were sometimes huge complain threads about them so they kind of just fell out of favor. You can still find places that use them.
badges reddit adopted and put into the profile page similar to steam which was not a bad idea since people with a lot of badges created new UX issues.
then you have status flairs and tags, these I really wish had come back, some subs enabled user
flair which in some cases replicated the old forum style through CSS mods. Some of the styles you might have might be that your name glowed or had a small animation among other things. I always really liked these though I suspect at scale they have exploitation issues.
I think some of these features could make a come back on smaller instances. Not sure we should go entirely back to the way it was done in the 00s though.
that is my thinking, I also mainly post about tech and often research or FOSS, so there is very little I feel I can't at least archive. When it comes to more creative work, id try to avoid bringing it over. Still kind of not sure about stuff like personal finance advice.
All that said, when it comes to text, its now trivial to re-write it.
depends, a lot of whats on reddit came from elsewhere, sometimes from years before. I dont feel any need to credit reddit for anything like that I grab, if its new and a post unique to the site, I bring it over as an ARCHIVE and link it.
id like more options at the admin and user level. defederation should be seen as a last-resort move, there should be all kinds of ways to filter communities and let users ultimately control thier views while letting the admin ensure they aren't harboring undesirable content in thier jurisdiction.
there will always be an issue with people manipulating the data but thats when you get into wholesale defed imo.
there will be updates to help with scaling, but also in general we should be trending to smaller home instances and working to integrate meta-community features IMO. Its generally easy and affordable to run a server for oneself and a couple thousand users. Its when you grow well beyond these scales that things become an issue.
There is not a ton of value to being on a large instance, esp as the federation code gets smoothed out.
signatures were very dividing, a community usually had them or they didn't and there were sometimes huge complain threads about them so they kind of just fell out of favor. You can still find places that use them.
badges reddit adopted and put into the profile page similar to steam which was not a bad idea since people with a lot of badges created new UX issues.
then you have status flairs and tags, these I really wish had come back, some subs enabled user flair which in some cases replicated the old forum style through CSS mods. Some of the styles you might have might be that your name glowed or had a small animation among other things. I always really liked these though I suspect at scale they have exploitation issues.
I think some of these features could make a come back on smaller instances. Not sure we should go entirely back to the way it was done in the 00s though.