I have an open science news feed on Lemmy and Mastodon (and Reddit and Twitter). Now I no longer need to do this double.
https://lemmy.ml/c/fediversefutures works https://lemmy.ml/u/openscience works But https://lemmy.ml/c/openscience does not work
So it is not the translation from the @-form to the URI-form of writing an account name.
I cannot seem to get it to work. When I type @[email protected] into the Mastodon search box I get a link to the fediversefutures community (group) profile. But if I type @[email protected] in the search box, I get a link to a user called @openscience, but not to the [email protected] community. Is this a software bug or am I doing something wrong?
And all governments, including the ones that America bullies, are in on it as well as thousands of scientists. Conspiracies of that scale are impossible to pull off. Just like the moon landing. It is easier to land on the moon.
It walks like a duck, it quacks like a duck, maybe it is a duck and this virus emerged like any other virus in the past.
Found it and posted it there. Thanks.
Mastodon has it. I feel it is important, even if not many people would use it, it is a useful check on the power of the instance.
I remember an article claiming that Reddit had it relatively easy in dealing with disruptive groups compared to other social media system is that they have a ban evasion rule. So that when a Subreddit was banned and created a new sub they could be banned again before creating problems.
Is the main side-wide problem that these posts turn up in the search results? Otherwise they are only seen by people subscribing the moderated communities people subscribed to?
If yes, an option for (low volume) spammers could be to only exclude them from search results and otherwise have the moderators of the communities and their downvoters deal with them. As you already write many cases are grey areas, so maybe in such cases such more subtle mechanisms are enough.
As only removing from the search results is less disruptive one could moderate more posts this way.
Replace them with cat emojis?
Next to inviting citations, it would also be nice for everyone to be able to add citations. Make it more of a collaborative effort than someone's time line.
Would it need a way to make clear we are really interested in the citation? I feel that most cases people ask for citations, they mean to say diplomatically that the claim is nonsense.