I think when it comes to blocking people, I can see some improvement there. I’m all about the idea of not adding fuel to the fire in the form of pointless online arguments and conflicts.
I see so many online platforms just fucking fail at the ways they try approaching that issue. Most places would let you block a user but they can still see everything that the blocked user has said. Like that opens the doors to exploiting and archiving. It is one thing if you’re logged out and can see things site-wide than it is still being logged in and seeing what was said.
When I block someone, I want to be a ghost to them. I want them to not see anything I’ve said and I wouldn’t want to see anything they’ve said either. I don’t want to block them and find out they engage me on an alt just with things to continue the bullshit with.
I think the Fediverse has corrected that aspect that, when you log off, you can’t see shit. So it prevents that. Though that’s practiced from the instance I’m on for all I know.
However, when logged in and still blocking people, they can still see what was said by those who blocked them.
Furthermore and this is a bit of a controversial part, is that, I think moderation logs to be open is a bad idea. Again, it is to me, just one more thing to add to the fuel of a fire that isn’t being let to wind down. Because people often jab and joust at others with shit like “LOOK WHUT U DID IN THUH MODERATION LOG!” and that just does nothing but escalate.
I think with some of these kinds of corrections, would promote the idea of a healthier ecosystem for the community.
User profiles could be a little bit more consistent and cleaner and allow for better interlinking and descriptions. I currently have my main profile at mastodon and I just link my other profiles there, but whether linking back there works from those profiles is anyone’s guess.
It’s a bit of a toss-up what profile text even supports on any particular service, sometimes it’s even dependant on what the client decides to do. Some allow Mastodon-style custom fields, some don’t. Some allow you to (e.g.) put links to your other profiles, some just render whatever you put there as a text - except, say, on some mobile client for some reason, where it decides to link mastodon-style user names. Some services are ridiculously minimalist (looking at you, Pixelfed - I know the main focus is on the user galleries, but oh no, how dare I want to learn anything about the people who take the photos).
Also you see things like people putting long alt-texts of their profile pics and banner pics in the descriptions - folks, wouldn’t it be cooler if the software supported actual alt-text for those?
Less of a problem on lemmy but mastodon has a lot of accounts posting anime pictures that are not necessarily illegal but are weird - like children dressed as animals or with animal features.
Not sure if there’s anything you can do about people just being weird but often other users will boost a different post by the account, which will be a meme or something, so the accounts end up on your timeline. If you click through to see more similar memes you get greeted with a profile where they are clearly not a teen but are pretending to be one or similar…
idk I suppose my complaint is that the culture is overly tolerant of creepy behaviour.
I want lemmy to look more exactly like old reddit. Also get rid of the preview button and replace it with “post” or something. It’s completely pointless.
Lemmy has many different user interfaces. You will want an instance that runs the Mlmym UI, like this one:
Consolidated frontend for communities to federate their own community with.
Stop with 20 different versions of memes.
One channel to federate the community to a common feed.
And mods may police the feed as they see fit.You can make your own feeds that combine communities on Piefed. No moderator policing though. Not sure what you mean there.
Say mods prohibit links to piracy sites but allow discussion, the mods can moderate the content.
But that front end problem is so typical… :p
Well there are also topics, which are instance admin controlled.
And Piefed moderators can implement URL blocking that could include piracy site sources that would block the entire instance from seeing content from pirate sites.
Problem is…Piefed exclusive.
So doesnt help the FedieverseWell okay, but if these functions didn’t exist at all - they would only begin to exist on one particular piece of software on the Fediverse at some point initially. As has happened here.
Onboarding is a nightmare. Any other changes we make are pointless until we address onboarding.
Exposure maybe? How to attract new eyeballs. Idk how either.
Why is it in my many decades of online discussion I have never blocked anyone, yet I see people who somehow think they need it?
Why?
You cant just move on or ignore them? I find it so weird.
I agree. A lot of people are proud of their 100-user-long blocklist. Seems like a weird thing to boast about, to me.
I’m new here. I’d like to be able to find communities by size (ie. locate the ones that actually are used).
You can do this on piefed with the community browser.
Thank you, this was EXTREMELY helpful.
We could be nicer.
I hope you all have a good week.
Agreed. We’re still one of the most polite online spaces I’m aware of, but it’s harsher than it was right during the third party app exodus.
I really don’t get why there are so many mean people here. I don’t mean everyone has to go around being extra polite all the time - hell, even I don’t do that. It’s the intentional stuff, trying to hurt someone’s feelings, that baffles me. There’s way too much of it, and it just boggles my mind.
I don’t care how big an asshole the other person was being - responding that way just makes two assholes. Block them and move on. Don’t add to the toxicity that ruins social media in the first place, or you’re part of the problem.
I believe there is some huge level of insecurity among people that make them act that way. It has to be. It’s their poor way of coping in a world they probably didn’t have any plans in how to navigate in, so why not just be a bastard online? It gives them a sense of superiority and power I guess, as false as it is.
If you’re having to go around and mindlessly pick arguments with people, be an asshole and try to tell them how you’re better than them? You’re most likely not better than them. You’ve only sunk down several levels yourself.
I’m a cis, white, male, everyone is nice to me
The Fediverse could improve how things are shared. If I wanted to share your post with a friend, I’ll give them this link: https://piefed.ca/c/asklemmy/p/424338/what-do-you-feel-the-fediverse-could-improve-on.
If they’re also on the same instance as me (Piefed.ca), then all’s good. But God forbid they’re on another instance and they want to comment or vote on your post. They would have to go back to their own instance, find this community, and then search for this specific post.
And I know some of you guys are itching to tell me about using a browser extension/script or another front-end to fix this, but this should be officially integrated with every front-end. I don’t understand why there still hasn’t been any integration with something like Threadiverse.
How can a social media grow if you can’t even share posts properly?
The biggest thing for me is searchability. After a post is off the feed, it may as well be deleted. God help you if you’re looking for something new, like a guide or help post. Most of the Fediverse is unindexed by search engines, and the built-in Lemmy search makes Reddit search look like Google in it’s prime. I know PieFed has helpped a bit by adding flairs, so you can at least sort by that, but to my knowledge thats about as far as anyone has gone trying to address this.
I think there needs to be a higher emphasis on real life community building instead of recreating the services that destroyed communities.
We don’t need another twitter clone. We need a marketplace and volunteer organizing software.
I can easily imagine tiny towns, neighborhoods (and even apartments) using a Mastodon server to create a community based social media. Now, whether people would WANT to use that, and if it would just turn into NextDoor, are separate issues.
I think those are great ideas. Event planning is a general-purpose app that can be leveraged for mobilizing political groups. I don’t think there’s really anything like Facebook Groups, unless Friendica has some of that.
I think having open modlogs is great for transparency.
People will routinely play innocent after saying gross shit, getting rid of the record will only make it harder to call out bad actors.
I prefer the way blocks work, if someone is talking shit they cant just block the people calling them out.
When I block someone, I want to be a ghost to them. I want them to not see anything I’ve said and I wouldn’t want to see anything they’ve said either. I don’t want to block them and find out they engage me on an alt just with things to continue the bullshit with.
Unenforcible without Real ID Verification.
I could just have a dormant account in a different Tor Session and it would be unlinkable to me.
If you block me, I could use that account to browse and still see you.
I could have 10 or 100 of these alts.
(Hypothetically speaking of course, I don’t have the energy to do all that stuff, I always lists every alt in my profile)
- Better enforcement of accessibility. Besides the obvious, this would improve searches: often I can’t use the search feature for posts of images of text, because alt text wasn’t set.
- A public modlog that can be linked independent of instance.
- Content versioning, so we can review previous versions of edited posts/comments.
