If you could take your favorite elements from various social media platforms to create the ideal space, what would it be like?
It would kick me out for the next 4 hours after viewing n amounts of posts. No way to change that. You set it once and never again. No upvotes, likes or hearts either. And fucking encrypted messaging.
There must be some reason why private messaging on this platform is unencrypted. Maybe it’s required by law in some countries, or it’s too difficult to implement.
Lemmy is not really focused on DMs anyways. DMs are mostly used to exchange matrix chat accounts or other means of communication. So, encryption wouldn’t make that much difference, really.
Like lemmy but we should focus on quality, not quantity. (which we already partly do)
Like if the original okCupid team had diversified into general online social interactions instead of selling to the dating monopoly. The platform tries to learn about you, not so that it can match you with advertizers, but so that it can try to give you meaningful social interactions with human beings.
Original instagram was a lot of fun. They ruined it of course.
A requirement to establish intellectual capability and that would determine user privileges.
Real local women that are horny NOW
A local pub.
But cheap enough that people can hang out there for an hour or two most days without going broke.
Theres something to be said for the real world.
i think a big reason why that doesn’t exist is because most people are continuously exhausted from work, so they don’t have energy to bring to the bar anyways.
We would first have to have an end to full-time employment (i.e. end of economic growth combined with implementing UBI) before we could have free time and energy to dedicate to bars again, i guess.
I would actually say it’s real estate costs that prevent this over here. Those keep business prices up and also make people have to work more.
You just described most bars in Spain.
For me, it would mainly be a blend between Tumblr and booru-style image boards, allowing users to follow people and tags, with filtering by tags and collaborative tagging. A trust-based moderation system akin to Discourse. I’d also want the ability to block tags and a Reddit-style tree-like comment system for better discussions. A nuanced voting system similar to Slashdot’s could help finding quality discussions by differentiating between types of content and allowing sorting by these different types.
this was something I loved about slashdot moderation. When voting, people had to specify the reason for the vote. +1 funny, +1 insightful, +1 informative, -1 troll, -1 misleading, etc.
That way you can, for example, set in your user preferences to ignore positive votes for comedy, and put extra value on informative votes.
Then, to keep people from spamming up/down votes and to encourage them to think about their choices, they only gave out a limited number of moderation points to readers. So you’d have to choose which comments to spend your 5 points on.
Then finally, they had ‘meta moderation’ where you’d be shown a comment, and asked “would a vote of insightful be appropriate for this comment” to catch people who down-voted out of disagreement or personal vandetta. Any users who regularly mis-voted would stop receiving the ability to vote.
I don’t think this is directly applicable to a federated system, but I do think it’s one of the best-thought-out voting systems ever created for a discussion board.
edit: a couple other points i liked about it:
Comments were capped at (iirc) +5 and -1. Further votes wouldn’t change the comment’s score.
… Craigslist with no spam/scam. I’m not very social
Myspace.
That era in social media was so much fun! No expectations and feature rich. +1 for Tom
