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  • whereisdani_r@lemmy.worldOPtoLemmy.world Support@lemmy.worldDown-brigades
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    1 year ago

    I needed an objective answer to “down brigading”. I have enough common sense to know the community topic is inherently contrarian, and predisposed to downvotes if it was sorting by all and new. The scenario of people disagreeing and downvoting, was also my natural conclusion. I’ve been working on other development/ server projects to contribute to the fediverse that are technical and it’s a learning curve.

    This question was minor, but I had a panic button moment of “ what on earth did I miss now!? Did I miss something on the documentation for the moderation log!?”

    Every interaction I’ve had on Lemmy has been extremely positive. But I’d be an idiot to not automatically think it’s the content of the community, duh.

    It was fine you took the community topic into context, but you didn’t need to be rude, the cursing I don’t think helps in the support part in the name of the community we are talking in right now. For what it’s worth, being rude and adding unsolicited commentary is outdated.

    Thank you for the actual helpful part of “there is nothing to worry about on the backend, carry on.”

    Edit: I was too “apologetic girl “ in my first reply, New Year’s resolution to not always add “lol” and unnecessary “sorrys”










  • I think there are multiple illusions into using one community. I don’t think people do. The average user love instagram when it was for sharing photos, facebook before it was for grandparents, vine (now tik tok) when it was for funny clips, youtube for silly content, reddit for thread format speaking, snapchat for stupid private chats. If we are talking about centralized communication I’m not so sure that is the case either. The reason all of those platforms I just mentioned got ruined for the most part is being of the growth of influencing and monetization. Once capitalism came in it completely changed the original intent of why the user liked those platforms, I doubt most of them even remember why they liked it when they joined it changed so fast. What people want, without actually realizing it, are the same services without the garbage product they’ve excepted and its turned into.


  • OP I completely agree with all of your points. ESPECIALLY (BIG BOLD LETTERS) we need to create better “front-ends” Anecdotally, I put a post a on mastodon that didn’t get responses (the vibe there seems a bit different on this issue, because I usually do get responses) Since the reddit migration, I’ve gone into a homelab frenzy. I have reached out to others. I have been in awe at the developers who worked on the overloading of servers and the jump on the creation of third party apps. The pre-existing community that explained a complicated process to many people.

    We saw how many uses came over from reddit and found it too complicated. We had those discussions too. How there were solutions like simplifying what the fediverse is, what instances are, etc. etc. This took time for people who already cared about what was happening on reddit_ which is a small minority of internet uses.

    And that would have been okay, right? We had our space, we could have had time to build.

    I have been going on about this issue ad nauseum with my partner. I have a computer science background and work in cyber tech so this came to me a bit faster, but still a learning curve. I showed her videos, articles, walked her through the apps. But this is someone who is a social media user.

    I had a fever for a few days (very irritated as it disrupted my home lab fever, pardon that pun) when my partner is comes running in thrilled*___* that she gets to be involved with my project and finally understands it because she saw Threads and the word “fediverse”

    This is someone who is yes intelligent, who lives with someone who is way more involved with this issue that the average internet “normie”, and still, because of the front end UI, the simplification of it. The exact quote was “this is a space on the fediverse for me”

    A lot of fighting happened, lol anyways if you have made it this far, especially to OP:

    1. We need to organize. I do not think anything can get done with siloed passionate informed users like ourselves. How do we organize? This will take crowd funding. Resources. Project roadmaps. Mission statements. Unfortunately, some of the ick of how we work together in a corp to roll to market.
    2. We need to move fast
    3. We need things pretty

    How do we get this done?