I have about 200 of them saved that are my favorites and have been going through them when I find something that is related in my mind. I generally put them on the weekly threads to try and bump up engagement a little bit as it's something more than just text, and it's something that I love as well.
I think you're the first one to comment on it. It is appreciated!
Palaye Royale - No Love In LA Love these guys; they have some serious My Chemical Romance vibes and I used to live right near them.
Hey, wake up! The new Clippy skin just dropped!
Nick is a goddamn treasure and I will fight anyone who thinks different.
That's called being a centrist or an independent. Lemmy hates those.
Well, this was a massive failure that we won't be repeating.
I do. It's not enough.
No-discussion downvoters are a massive problem here moreso than any other site I've ever used.
Please also disallow ~~Congress from trading in~~ the ~~US~~ stock market ~~with their inside information~~.
One small adjustment and it's perfect!
Oh man... you're basically speaking directly to why I made our small community (consider this a personal invite). As I said elsewhere, I find Lemmy actively hostile.
The number of indignant replies and comment-free downvotes we get inundated with continually is… disheartening.
People want content, but actively detract from any content that doesn’t explicitly cater to them. It’s hard to take.
Interesting to see a non-positive take! I always appreciate your write-ups.
I too wish there was more unification with certain elements. I can only imagine what they could do if they combined development resources into a few channels instead of being scattered to the winds. Maybe add an overall design aesthetic (while maintaining the means to change it) instead of just "it works I suppose."
Better ways for Communities to surface themselves. Starting with such a small community, it's hard to get more people unless they come in from browsing the equivalent of /All. I've also been active in promoting this Community to people who seem to want to discuss things on other threads and were frustrated by the same things I was, but we're still pretty small.
More controls (and decoration) available to the Community itself. It'd help us out a lot if we could disable downvotes, for instance. As it stands, we can't discuss any remotely controversial topic without no-comment downvotes from random people burying threads. That means that if the first few people don't like the topic or my initial outlay of it, they kill any hope of anyone seeing the thread. On a platform with scads of various activists, this means that this happens often.
Better moderation tools. For instance, we can't properly remove deleted content, and it's all mostly visible still on mobile clients. Hell, we've seen deleted rule-breaking comments continue to accrue upvotes somehow.
Ways to pre-emptively surface sub rules to mobile users who never see the sidebar (especially if they are breaking them). Lemmy seems to think that people browse communities, but they do no such thing. The Community is popped into a feed, and people see a topic, but most never even look at the Community itself.
Stopping bad users. Things like... there need to be ways to stop a user from going into user history of others and downvoting every single thing they've ever written because they didn't like a take they had. We also need ways to appeal bans and stop brigading.
We've had threads reported for using terminology a user didn't like. The threads then vanished. We, the mods, were never notified that a large and actively debated thread was now gone and could do nothing about it.