Yeah your suggestions and a few more are absolutely necessary to make this a viable platform. I don’t think Lemmy or any other alternative is in a reliable enough state right now and almost everyone will just go back to reddit soon. But maybe in a year or so, who knows, depending on the devs (who seem to have questionable takes so I’m not too optimistic).

I’m not going to stay here if there wont be reliable news feeds for my interest on here.

God I know people like that, the most normal social behavior gets interpreted as hostility and is met with aggression.

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.

Before I watch a movie I prefer mostly only checking out the rating a few of my trusted critics gave it, to see if it’s worth my time or ticket admission. I will glance over a review or skip through the video to catch some bits and phrases to hear what’s good or bad about it. Basically I use them like enhanced imdb/letterboxd/rt scores + summary adjusted to my tastes. For that this guy https://www.youtube.com/@AustinBurke/videos is quite reliable and usually likes what I like, roughly, even though he leans a bit fanboyish and the video style is quite… youtubery (he’s basically a chris stuckman replacement), but again reliable for me.

After watching a movie I like indepth discussion between different perspectives, which is where movie podcasts shine. For that I mostly have two german podcasts/shows where the different hosts have their own youtube channels and/or letterboxd profiles (behaind and Robert Hofmann are my favourites but yeah, german, so probably not a great recommendation for most). I checked out tons of english review youtubers/podcasters over the years, RLM and YMS have fun takes but often don’t align with mine and don’t exactly rush out their reviews.

Traditional longform written reviews tend to be too time-intensive, too subjective/niche/artsy for my taste, but I will check indiewire from time to time when I’m bored and just want to read something. I subscribed to Mark Kermode’s (Guardian) reviews too and will give them a glance too. I really like many indie/foreign auteur dramas, but arthouse movies are a bit iffy, so reviewers that celebrate movies I personally view as overly and unnecessarily boring or cryptic can drive me up the wall (for example Green Knight or Titane are IMO super interesting but flawed and I want those flaws to be discussed and not dismissed).

What do those cartel blogs look like?

oh no, i should have been specific. i was talking about the popular @lemmy.ml instance & its communities, lemmy.fmhy.ml seems to be a different instance just with a similar name/url.

that’s pretty aggressive. noone is forcing you to identify with the bad parts of socialism.

I suppose I was dreaming a little and imagining an open news-item id database (through manual or AI assisted tags) and any post and comment section about a news item (meaning different articles about the same subject) would become connected through that, so basically you could access different discussions about the same topic with a single click without leaving your original page. You wouldn’t have to categorize your comments when posting in the thread, you already do that by commenting from a specific community and having your comment be hosted there (basically imagine the same movie trailer posted on r/movies r/marvelstudios r/truefilm with different comment sections but you can switch between comment sections without leaving the page or view them all mixed together, or mixed by your preferences).

But yeah this idea probably comes with a million problems and to actually work (for more than just the same url/article) would require an open internet content databases more sophisticated than what even the big tech companies probably have internally right now.

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.