Read only use is hardly good though, that’s just coating them money. You want engagement from users to drive ads.

They’ll win in the end when the internet gets board like always. Still, it’ll be fun to watch burn, knock some value off the IPO.

Well, now I want RIF too, completion is good!

In all seriousness this is good to see.

I like that the code is 451, but yeah no one is going to explicitly use it when they’re blocking things. A little too on the nose.

Alright so not just me, it’s useful but out of date. Some of these are still good, others have been replaced.

I have a feeling they got a massive number of those,ni am one of them as well.

Yep. It turns out there is no such thing as a ‘balanced’ social network.

Which is analogous to life, depressingly enough.

I’ve always thought about creating some metric to weight users who create comments with the most engagement as higher. That leads to the most controversial or dividing comments rising though.

Some impartial judgement via mod points and or community awards to weigh valuable users would be nice.

The issue is any of these would be gamed, it might be possible today to use an AI model like ChatGPT but that’s got its own biases.

So for the moment I can’t think of a better system than upvote downvote.

Still need that alert function on the app.

Although all this immature development is making me consider taking a stab at programming Social Networks again. Last effort was an app back in College to collate facebook, twitter, reddit, etc into one interface. Very clunky, held together by proverbial tape and crashed when there were non latin characters input. Still, that was fun.

Well, it’s the nature of almost any online community. Say the ‘popular’ thing and you’re lauded, even if a slightly less popular point is more valid / has better evidence.

There really is no good way to discourage this other than fostering a community which values the discourse over ‘popular’ thing. That’s difficult to do even offline.

Hmm, I don’t disagree with the fragmentation but that’s the nature of any new social platform. It’s also been proven out that eventually one or two communities for a topic will become the dominant one with the others falling into disuse.

Attempting to merge communities early or artificially will cause moderator strife as minor disagreements balloon. Especially in a multireddit community where no one mod(team) has absolute control.

I don’t have a reason from a technical point of view, but from a social one. Forcing communities and instances together early will only cause strife. After a few years where two communities have a track record and proven ‘behavior’ would the multireddit not cause issue.

Personally a Reddit is Fun user, but sad to see them all go…

Feels like old school forums again. A little barebones compared to some of the corporate stuff, but that’s not a bad thing. Just the simple what’s needed no extra fluff.

Always weird to see the passion in these niche forums. it’s sad to see it go… Hopefully we get some back here and on other sites,

Well, that looks like fun! Although I’m expecting some E3 style graphics downgrade…

More people, yay!

That’s a positive at least. I’m still ripping data from my accounts, but afterwards bye bye!

Just, no reason to upgrade yet. My current card plays even the newest games at middling levels which is tolerable. Based on previous experience, I’ll upgrade once every 5 years or so. I’m only two years into this secondhand card.

Hmm, so if I could question.

I get the instance data sharing and the federation, but are things like logins / users a swarm / shared type of information? IE if the server I’m at home on goes down does my account go with it?

That’s the nail on the head, and what has stopped most alternatives in the past. There needs to be a saturation point of usage, what that is for a platform varies.

Not to mention adapting to the new norms and styles. Reddit was fairly open in general, but specific subs had some very ironcald rules about style and usage. old school forums like SpaceBattles are even more ‘soft’ rule specific simply dictated by the community and the old guard on it.