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I'm talking non-absurd things that plausibly someone could choose to implement.

Like an anti-suggestions thread.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 years ago (1 children)

a "this website looks way better in our app" popup on mobile

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Yes!! I second this.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Nearly everything that new reddit does. Tracking, huge ads, going closed source, removing dowvotes, vote fuzzing, tons of paid flairs, trying to integrate cryptos ...

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Oh, oh, don't forget forcing an account to read.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

That is just horrible.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago

Yeah new reddit is so awful it really seems necessary to re-implement the simplicity that was old reddit

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago

Do not forget being a tool of USA MIC ;)

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 years ago (3 children)

karma. one reason we have so much high-quality content here is because there's no incentive to gain upvotes. upvotes aren't displayed on your profile and no communities are locked to people below a certain upvote count. if karma were added to Lemmy, we'd get a lot of pandering to the lowest common denominator and the entire community would become stratified

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 years ago

Lemmy originally did have karma (i think we called it something else), but it was removed because it's parasitic, so you don't need to be afraid of that one coming back.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 years ago

This, so much of what's wrong with reddit is the obsession with making internet number go up.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 years ago

Well I still smile at night thinking about the upvotes I got.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 years ago (1 children)

the two big things that would make me less as enthused about Lemmy, would be the removal of downvotes and making votes transparent (i.e. showing people who voted, and what they voted).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Both interesting ideas, though

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 years ago

Real name policy (goverment issued ID and such stuff).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 years ago

"Follow us on Facebook and Twitter"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Excellent question. I think a Hexbear-like abandonment of federating functionality Because Reasons. Federating is at the heart and soul of everything as far as I'm concerned, so that is make or break for me.

And maybe, if it just became a really shallow low effort community. I decided I had enough of Tildes when a commenter there confidently explained and debated at length that MLK jr. would have been a "moderate" in the modern politics sense.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 years ago

That development gets inflexible to support OpenRC and Apache HTTPD by making it dependent of specific features of systemd and Nginx.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

Real name policy (goverment issued ID and such stuff).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Being forced to see total number of up and down votes

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Honestly I'm getting quite sick of the number buttons all over the screen already. If Lemmy keeps cluttering the UI under the fallacy where it's still comprehensive to the devs who have been here for months I'm gonna jump ship.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I don't really know what you mean? I never used Lemmy up until like yesterday and it was all intuitive to me.