I guess one thing I like already is that there’s no requirements for Karma, stupid rules about Reddit’s filters which got my 100k karma account permanently banned for no reason at all.
Would you prefer Lemmy to be smaller like it is now or get to a reddit level popularity but without the reddit jank.
I think this is an awesome idea! It would allow people to have the freedom to create any community they wanted, but still keep posts concentrated enough for visitors to see activity they can participate in. Excellent, maybe you could propose this to the developers of Lemmy and Piefed? Is Mbin still being actively developed?
I’ll make an issue in Piefed for sure! Probably Lemmy too.
I’m still thinking some things through for an initial post. For instance, how would moderation work? What level of control do the ‘higher’ community have over the lower one? Can mods ban posts, or throw the community out entirely? Or are they limited to simply hiding the lower community’s posts a la carte? Should they be able to hide the lower community without banning it?
…And is there any granularity for how that filters down the chain? For example, could /c/MMO be hidden in /c/PCgaming while allowing /c/GuildWars?
How does the integration start? Does it require approval from the “higher” community mods to join a taxonomical hierarchy?
…Can there be multiple parent communities, or max of 1?
Are there federation specific quirks? I’m assuming these hierarchies all have to exist in one server, but would it be technically feasible to have cross-server hierarchies?
And there’s a lot of conflicting incentives there. For instance, you don’t want to give too much power for a bot or troll to infiltrate a community via a subcommunity.
On the other hand, the fear of power-trippin’ mods may discourage linking under another community, so you want to give the subcommunities sufficient autonomy as well. I’m leaning to configurable defaults of:
subcommunity requires permission from the one directly above, but not the whole chain
all higher communities have the power to hide posts, hide “bottom tiers,” or even completely hide specific subcommunities by default, but logged in community users can opt to show them
each community controls their own moderation unless they opt-in to accept moderation from higher ones
higher ones can post rules required to accept the lower one, but once accepted, this is static text, unless all parties agree to change it
lower communities can be kicked out. Or they can opt to leave the hierarchy system, and rejoin another
lower users are not auto subscribed to higher ones by default, but this can be configured so, say /c/GuildWars auto subscribes you to /c/GuildWarsScenery
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