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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I can’t fathom setting that possibility of some negative encounters as a higher priority than lemmy becoming a viable platform in general. Users can still block people. I totally get that welcoming diverse communities don’t want to get brigaded, and sometimes it’s fine to want a retreat or friendgroup where you don’t get questioned too much and people have your back. But this just looks like unreasonable levels of fragility and inflexibility to me. Just for a couple of weeks mod more people and encourage users to block quickly instead of making the whole fediverse look like a joke.

    Ending this on a little confused rant. In general I don’t even understand wanting a full safe space version of every aspect reddit, a couple of identity or politics or friendly-chat focused subreddits should be enough for “recharging”, but afterwards it’s time to go back out in the real world with different people and some disagreements.






  • Would be nice if it was “divided” by user types too. Imagine a post about a new Marvel movie and you could view a shared comment thread but also filter to remove “marvel-fans”, or see only “cineasts”, without leaving the thread. Could lead to more bubbles, but could also make it really easy to see what other bubbles are thinking.




  • these are the main things I care about, until a reddit alternative can provide this I’m going to stay mostly or frequently on reddit.

    -somewhat reliable news headline feed from relatively neutral, serious center-right to center-left sources with little to no bad reporting/framing.
    -reliably hear about social trends, but with some distance to them
    -news discussion with some degree of different perspectives, some expertise, so it’s not just all left to the popularity of the headline.
    -discussion of movies and tv that is neither too fanboyish/popular leaning nor too indie/arthouse exclusive.
    -collections of helpful pro-consumer information and resources, up to date megaposts in hobby communities
    -a search function that will often enough lead to some helpful comments for most topics, googling “reddit xyz” was my go to for many years
    -feeds for some types of videos, like publicfreakout, livestream clips.
    -some communities that are more personal to me, like from my country or a political meme community, for venting and in-group discourse.
    -control over what i see in my feeds, most recommendation algorithms and trending tabs just don’t work for me
    -control over where I engage with content and in what form it’s presented, often I take a break from scrolling social media except for seeing some top posts in my rss feed. at some point I just want AI to read out summaries of all that stuff to me and actually visit website interfaces way less often myself.




  • I’d imagine at some point we don’t need to interact with all sorts of UIs and websites, our personal AI assistants can just do it for us and send and receive information for us from where ever and present in whatever shape we want on our devices or through speech. That means centralization loses an advantage, doesn’t matter where my friend posted something as long as it’s authenticated, my AI can see it, push it forward to my “information desk” and present/read it to me.