I think now is a great time to remind everyone, like sync’s developer, Lemmy’s developers need to be paid too! The amount of time all the devs put into making lemmy exist, in my opinion, should be worth some of your money. If you can afford it, donating to the people who develop lemmy and/or the people keeping your home instance up will accelerate the incredible growth of lemmy!
Is this a point about using the word, “branch.”
Or you pointing out that conversation organically drifts? Or something else?
It’s point about the fact that comments on a post are all part of the topic of that post and using the word ‘branch’ to try and infer that this is somehow a whole new subject under discussion is daft. Why do you think so many communities have ‘stay on topic’ as one of their rules?
I was going a different route. You’ve only policed the topic in a specific direction (that I’ve seen).
You’re not obligated (and it would look Quixotic) to police every comment. But you sure took on a handful.
I haven’t seen that the mods care. I’ve seen that you do as do some others, but what I see is discussion branching from different elements of the original submission. Like what happens on threaded discussion boards.
Lemmy is for discussion, those will sometimes wind around in a stream of (group) consciousness way. I understand some optics issues with bringing up the app, but it was in the original submission. People on both “sides” took the mention of the app and commented completely divorced from the state aim of the post. While those that mentioned the app and were on topic - those you policed.
If the mods care to force narrow conversation, that’s up to them.
