Davy Jones
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Davy Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•If Lemmy let you follow/block websites, which would you follow?3·2 days agoI tried this, it got banned.
Davy Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What Would your Perfect Social Media Platform Look Like?1·6 days agoThere 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.
Davy Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPto Books@lemmy.world•Where to Find Public Lists of Banned Books in US States?3·7 days agoThey are probably already mirrored in Anna’s Archie. Anyone can help with the load by seeding some of the archive’s torrents.
Davy Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPto Lemmy@lemmy.ml•Sorting Communities by Monthly Users for Better VisibilityEnglish2·7 days agoOh sorry, it was in the search page not the communities one.
Davy Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What Would your Perfect Social Media Platform Look Like?1·7 days agothis 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.
Davy Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What Would your Perfect Social Media Platform Look Like?4·7 days agoFor 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.
Davy Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPto Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL there's a federated Tumblr alternative called WAFRNEnglish4·7 days agoThey had a purge long ago, I would have thought an alternative that allowed explicit content would have appeared since then but this seems like the first one which is mind blowing.
Davy Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPto Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL there's a federated Tumblr alternative called WAFRNEnglish211·7 days agoI can’t say that I like either the project name or the mascot.
Politico’s framing leans pro‑legislation, subtly signaling support for the bill by foregrounding officials and advocates who stress enforcement while downplaying arguments about encryption and civil liberties. Its emphasis on the public’s “disruptive” tactics risks delegitimizing grassroots opposition by casting broad civic engagement as mere nuisance rather than substantive democratic protest.