It’s an ongoing spam wave

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All posts would be made with hashtags like Mastodon, and then each community would just configure “Include all posts with this tag in our community”. The big issue then is who moderates tags? I think a system like Bluesky has would work well, as you mention. People can moderate tags and other people can follow their work, or not.

You’re describing something like microblogging though. That’s how that works already. We don’t need to duplicate that in theadiverse. However, just a way to see merged comment sections from different communities for the same URL would go a long way to avoid too much splintering of discussions.

Site admins and developers at least get their $500/month from kofi

Just lol. Someone please arrange for my 500 per month >_<. We have one of the largest instances in the threadiverse and we don’t even get 1/5 of that :D

And if forums just add fediverse integration like discourse is already doing, just win-win

Exactly same path, but Google Reader instead of shashdot.org

Btw, I was always curious why people abandoned /. as it didn’t have any drama iirc.

I used to be until the blackouts where I was demoded by the admins for blacking out the sub.

I’m never going back to corporate social media. If it’s not FOSS and available to self host reasonably, I’m not interested anymore.

So that means, lemmy and others like it only from now on for me. Already close to 1k posts made.

When I called them out on their one sided censorship, with a screenshot of the modlog above, I promptly received a community ban on all communities on lemmy.ml that I had ever participated in.

Note, that just means you were sitebanned. This is how the software displays this.

Also !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

How any times do they have to learn the same lesson?

Done.

Issue 1

Issue 2

Browsers and the internet protocols were pretty sweet, man

I actually want to suggest an extended feature where you can use an allowlist of servers allowing voting in your instance, creating in effect a affinity group of instances. I’ll make a formal issue later

Adding local site settings to reject federated upvotes or downvotes.

Yisss!

I was considering mentioning that GenX stuff, but I felt it was too obscure and would only serve to posture my creds :)

You can actually do that on lemmy already like so. Sorting by new doesn’t use the voting. Hell you can even sort them like a forum by sorting by “new comments”

I am the author. Heard you were talking shit…

I kid, I kid :D

I insist that in their current form, reddit (and lemmy) can serve as both forums and link aggregators with comment sections.

Let’s say you find a year old discussion, you don’t bother to read 120 pages, so you just ask your question at the end. If you’re lucky enough not to be in a forum that won’t flame you for necroing and not searching, you’re given a link to a page. You visit that page but don’t find the answer. Then ask again. Maybe this time you get a correct link, or maybe you get flamed this time.

See how it’s easy to make hypotheticals? Not to disrespect your preferences, but this approach is downright inane. What you’e describing is working despite the software, not because of it. As others mentioned in this thread, you get the exact opposite reactions to another forum about automobiles.

You know what is superior to this? Having a lemmy community about this one motorcycle model, with an FAQ or wiki on the side. People can ask a question as a new thread, and guess what, people can link them to a previously answered thread, just like they would link them to a specific page in your gigathread. Nothing functionally changes here. The lack of threading or sorting by new comments doesn’t change the experience. It’s the willingness to be nice to newbies that matters.

What you’re describing is simply changing a lemmy community into a single thread in a bbforum. It is an objectively worse scenario.

In lemmy you start with a generic topic. Say, automobiles. If it starts getting too busy, you start two new communities, cars and motorcycles, if those get too busy, you expand to brands and models. Each of them nicely organized and easily searchable by titles.

What I see here is a community that coalesced around an old forum software and did the best it could. Unlike most others, it happened to have the right people to make the best of it and find a working system with what they got. But again, it’s not the software, it’s the people, which is proven by so many similar communities in similar software just failing miserable instead.

I would argue that this community would work much better with a software much better suited for it.

I’m not upset, mate. I’m just perplexed why you’re confidently making statements which directly contract the article and appear as if you didn’t read it. But you do you.

Lemmy already has both of those sorting options built in