This setting is only about how downvotes are displayed. They still exist and will be visible to other users, but not to the post creator. Disabling downvotes entirely as default is a separate discussion.
Algorithms are definitely needed to discover good content. There are some good videos on Peertube, but its very difficult to find them due to all the low effort spam. Lemmy also had different algorithms from the beginning and no one ever complained about them.
The problem with algorithms used by Reddit, Facebook etc is that they are completely intransparent, and include factors which dont benefit the user, such as "engagement" or advertising. As long as Fediverse algorithms are focused on benefitting the user and are transparent there is nothing wrong with them.
I can replace them if you can suggest better alternatives. Anyway Lemmy users seem to be older than Reddit users, and those who have spare money to donate should know these normal financial terms.
"Help Design Lemmy" sounds good, thanks for the suggestion. I looked around for some info about A/B testing but it seems relatively complicated to setup. Do you have any tools to suggest for that? And I can see what you mean about the text sounding unsure. What do you think about this one?
We provide Lemmy as free and open source platform without any tracking or advertising, and work every day to improve it. Yet we also need money to pay our bills and provide for our families. Only 2% of Lemmy users donate, so we need your donation to keep this model working. Thank you for helping to create a new form of social media.
AGPL specifies that everything is provided without liability or warranty, so I dont see how anyone could have reason to sue. Besides Lemmy is not a company, if anything a nonprofit would make sense.
That is true, but not so easy to do. To make donation pages like those in your link would require setting up some kind of nonprofit and directly handling credit card payments with some payment processor, and probably various legal requirements. By relying on existing donation platforms we have much less hassle.
Right, I removed the asterisk and added a dotted underline instead to indicate hover text. The text with 4 months left is an old leftover, Ive removed it. Also made the text bigger and changed the button layout (though it looks too green now).
Lemmy dev here. Making the same post to multiple communities is not possible, so you need to post multiple times tagging a different community each time. Links are taken from Activitypub attachment, but Mastodon only seems to support image attachments. So it is not possible to add other types of links unless Mastodon adds an option for that. Markdown would also have to be supported by Mastodon.
There are various other microblogging platforms on the Fediverse which may support these features and may be better suited to your purpose. For example Mbin, Hometown, Pleroma, Misskey or Mitra to name just a few.
It seems difficult to explain these in such a short text. However I will make a similar post soon to improve the donation page on join-lemmy.org, maybe it could be included there as it has more space available.
We are working on new moderation features all the time, for example 1.0 will correctly federate instance bans which is quite complicated to get right. There will also be a plugin system which allows for much more flexible mod tools. Its just that our time is very limited for all the work that needs to be done on a project with over 50k active users.
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This setting is only about how downvotes are displayed. They still exist and will be visible to other users, but not to the post creator. Disabling downvotes entirely as default is a separate discussion.