Holy shit you found it! Thank you so much! I swear I searched every combination of beer garden but I couldn’t find it myself!
It wasn’t opendesk unfortunately. I saw it maybe a year ago and I just remembered it recently.
I think it was run by a nonprofit (or maybe it was some kind of company, idk) that I think both did planning for communities officially and provided the resources to do it on your own. Their wiki had multiple different sections, such as furniture, bus stops, beergardens, farmers markets, and more.
I want to say it got started in Portland but that could be a fever dream :/
Yeah, I'm definitely on the fence about it. I agree about the bad faith participation with downvote brigading, but I also feel that having downvotes is, overall, a good way to gauge community agreement.
I think what I would like the most is a visible upvote/downvote percentage ratio. That way you could see not only the net upvotes - downvotes like on reddit, but the actual participation by the community.
One thing that I think would be interesting would be a small change to the upvote downvote system. Instead of just showing the total upvote -downvote, you could instead have a percentage, say as a pie chart. That way a user could visually see how agreeable/disagreeable a controversial topic is, instead of just + and - karma.
I definitely think that Lemmy has potential. Now that it's attracting tons of new users, it will only take a few coats of polish to make it easily accessible for the average person.
Oh okay, sounds neat. I've never really been that into Discord, unfortunately. I'd like to use Peertube more too, but it seems pretty empty rn, and idk anything about making videos!
I know peertube, but what is matrix?
Same here. I never used twitter, but joined Mastodon and have enjoyed it. I’ll use lemmy and expect (hope!) that it will get polished and streamlined enough to take over Reddit
UPDATE: VenDiagraphein found it! It’s https://www.betterblock.org
Thanks also to everyone who helped out!