Yeah the ability to minimize long threads either through a long press or via a carrot icon would be preferable

“should we have a 2 cent sales tax to fund schools or a 4 cent one” is politics. “Should trans people exist” is not politics.

Or, rather, don’t argue with someone who doesn’t think you’re a human being. Don’t give them a forum.

Whether another site violates gdpr and data deletion requests doesn’t mean your site can too.

Lemmy and kbin should be respectful to the user and follow deletion logic, just like how you can delete a mastodon post and other servers will respectfully delete it.

Yes, someone might have scraped it, No, that doesn’t remove your liability just because it’s up on someone else’s copy, And even if you aren’t under liability you should treat your users well.

It’s the right thing to do.

In person conversation and online conversation are very different. Just like the mechanics of picking a lock and hacking computers in another country are very different.

Online conversations can be unintentionally published with mistakes (even the best of us make typos or post to the wrong chat), and the blast radius is much worse.

Online conversations are much easier to misinterpret due to lost context.

If it’s a public figure or a company doing something shady, yes, it’ll end up on Internet archive.

If a user wants to remove their selfie; you let them, because it’s their content.

I run the r/kbin subreddit.

You can follow people on kbin, can’t follow them on Lemmy “because it would require an overhaul”

folks talked about “you should be able to search by !communityname@instance.name” not working, even if the community /is/ already federated and sharing content (think !technology@beehaw.org) - so there’s definitely growing pains.

same feeling. too many logos in the diagram. each one of these could be a “dev starter kit” image for the particular stereotypes.

if the upvotes/downvotes are part of a user feed… you could probably do some crunching on “repeated brigading posts”… but part of me is going… wouldn’t it be interested to make buckets for how similarly people’s opinions line up.

like… “subtract out the folks who just vote no on anything positive with MacOS”, e.g., the herd gets grouped and gets lesser power.

or… “rank a user that usually downvotes stuff in this group but suddenly upvoted it higher” (like neural exhaustion). So the more an account /just upvotes/ and it becomes tired due to the link between that user and those keywords.

I describe signal as a journalism and cybersecurity nerd app. Because everyone who’s serious about either of those two things uses it. The other apps don’t come close.