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Lemmy is copying the worst feature that ruined Reddit
I’m splitting this into two parts. First identifying the issue. And second my personal idea for a solution. I’m hoping for a lot of discussion so please be clear which part you are responding to.
Part 1: The problem
Reddit as a platform has many flaws. Obviously being a corporation means they’re terrible no matter what. But their platform is also flawed. Even if Reddit was 100% community owned the platform would still be flawed. The number one thing that is ruining Reddit are the tyrannical mods.
Each community on Reddit is a dictatorship. Whoever is arbitrarily in charge of a community has full unrestricted power to do whatever they want. The people who are actually creating the content and sharing it are totally at their whim. I understand that modding is a difficult and thankless job, but toxic mods ruined Reddit and Lemmy will do the same if it’s not addressed.
Lemmy’s answer is to allow people to create their own instances. Don’t like the mods at World? Go make your own Lemmy, with blackjack and hookers. But that’s not sufficient. It takes years to build up a community to have enough people for meaningful discussion to happen, and nearly all communities or instances fail. We absolutely need a way for mods to answer to the users.
Part 2: My solution
My solution is simple. Lemmy is built on the community. Everyone helps run it. Therefore mods are elected by the users who generate the highest upvoted content in a community.
Elections should happen on a schedule and, if a community is particularly upset with a mod, a vote of no confidence can be taken.
I understand that this will be a huge undertaking. But I truly believe that we need to fix this issue for Lemmy to thrive long term. Or else we’ll just end up with another Reddit.
Each community on Reddit is a dictatorship. Whoever is arbitrarily in charge of a community has full unrestricted power to do whatever they want.
Lemmy’s answer is to allow people to create their own instances. Don’t like the mods at World? Go make your own Lemmy, with blackjack and hookers. But that’s not sufficient.
I don’t think it’s insufficient. site admins can replace mods if they see the need for it. and if your site admins don’t take action when they should, you look for a new site with new site admins. or you become your own.
Therefore mods are elected by the users who generate the highest upvoted content in a community.
this is simple but simply flawed. how do you filter dishonest accounts? automated accounts, multiaccounts, trolls, brigading accounts of users coming from an instance with largely different values, …
IRL we have solved these, but we don’t want such an identity system on the internet.
Or else we’ll just end up with another Reddit.
on reddit you couldn’t choose your site admins. here you can. even today it is a very meaningful choice if you compare just lemmygrad, lemmy.world and dbzero
TIIIIIN ROOF!
@arrjay Busted!
@mike
flipping through YoutubeTV live games, I saw that the 'hawks game was in progress with the usual option to start from the beginning, go to live, or catch up with "key plays"
(by the time TWENTY TWO key plays finished ... I had just missed the shootout, lol)
* watching unmoderated highlights, what stood out was having fifteen key plays still to go at four to nothing, and then the ever present shots on goal stat -- as the score kept changing -- started getting really lopsided
Seth :ally_always:
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what a cutie patootie
@sun Maybe you should ask your clanker to improve it.
@hfaust it would probably fix most the bugs in hours.
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There’s always peertube. It’s light on content, but that’s all the more reason, be the change you want to see in the world. You can always mirror them on YouTube and elsewhere
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If you're annoyed at Microsoft, this might help you feel a little better.
there should be one of those visual novels where it puts orcs and furries together as if they're the same thing except it puts furries and cishet IT professionals together
like, one that's not about information technology
just have a bunch of furry characters and then one cisgender heterosexual human man who works with computers and the game doesn't say anything about it but it heavily implies that it thinks these are the same thing
accessibility features often help way more folk than you think they do. for example, putting alt text on your topical, pop-culture-related memes helps people who are old to accomplish the task of knowing what the fuck that thing even is that you are talking about
@jk
Alt text also helps with situations like public officials — there are hundreds or thousands of governments around the world and identifying someone as the minister of xyz is often the salient point
I strongly believe that if you don't have product-market fit, you usually need to go more narrow to get it. Longer term you might want product-market fit with multiple niches that add up to something broad. But if you try to take that leap straight to a broader product, you risk building all the features and never solving a specific enough problem for anyone.
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Decentralized social media for environmental research
www.biorxiv.org/content/…/2026.11.06.764567v1
(Found with Aftergleam, a private reader for new research papers.)
Decentralized social media for environmental research
A. Chai-allah, A. Ghermandi, N. Fox, D. Van Berkel bioRxiv · 10.64898/2026.11.06.764567v1 · ecology · submitted 2026-11-12
Abstract
Social media data are reshaping environmental research. However, recent ownership and policy changes on centralized platforms like Twitter/X have motivated many users to seek new alternatives while simultaneously accelerating data restrictions for scientists. Decentralized social media, particularly Bluesky and Mastodon, are emerging as alternatives for users seeking greater control over their data and as a more stable and sustainable source of data for researchers. This rise may be instrumental in revitalizing the role of social media in environmental research. This study aims to provide a first-of-its-kind analysis of the potential of these new sources for environmental research, demonstrating their potential usefulness through the examples of climate change discourses and people’s appreciation of wildlife. We find an increased adoption of Mastodon and Bluesky, with high linguistic diversity, even if dominated by English. Wildlife image content reveals broad taxonomic diversity, with plants, birds, and insects dominating the records. We find this pattern broadly consistent with that observed on the popular citizen science platform iNaturalist. Climate change discourse is found to broadly reflect the scientific consensus on both platforms, with contrarian claims remaining uncommon. This suggests that researchers may benefit from less polarized opinions and misinformation, arising from interactions that are less driven by engagement maximizing algorithms implemented in other platforms. Our study illustrates the promise of decentralized social media as a new data source for environmental scientists and paves the way for their broader use in environmental research.
Today in is it ewaste or do people need these IDE accessories. (Yours for the cost of shipping) 🤔 #vintagecomputing
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@ai6yr I still have some of these audio cables. 😆 Completely useless since systems started digitally extracting the audio instead of sending analog play commands.
@hfaust doesn't work worth a damn, I try it again every single year
@sun Maybe you should ask your clanker to improve it.
RE: https://beige.party/@Mrfunkedude/117617438696265623
Just chill'n listening to some music. Come chat!
@mastodonmigration And you can call your senatoad and tell them which Majority leader they should vote for.
@ottomate Yup. Takes less than five minutes...
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What's the best way to view Gemini sites on Android? Most of the clients seem to be abandoned.
@Chrs56k via online? normal browser? there was one client/proxy...
