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To discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks

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https://lemmy-federate.com/ to federate your community to a lot of instances
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How (and when) to consolidate communities? (A guide)
Where to request inactive or unmoderated communities? (A list)

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Ideas: Different upvote buttons. Award tokens for Donating (feddit.org)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hear me out: Had these ideas to ensure lemmy doesn't derail into a short video/meme spiral like every other social platform

Additional (more specific) up/downvote buttons.

Like "original vs generic", "low effort vs detailed"

Not only can we ensure the engagement doesn't derail into an X-like anarchy or Instagram meme fest, but we can also then sort comments by parameters (ie. you've seen 20 pun comments about the headline and broad topic at hand but want to see actual thoughts about a linked article)

Another idea:

Instances are commonly offering donation buttons since they need to fund the servers. What if we tied cosmetic "superlike" awards to donations.

Thoughts? Very interested in your inputs/adaptations to my ideas or other cool concepts you have to ensure lemmy staying solid while growing

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Downvotes are a dark feature designed to excuse Reddit (and YouTube, etc.) from actually moderating their platforms under the guise of “social” moderation, but it’s actually something that stifles speech that challenges the consensus, rather than preventing toxicity.

They can be disabled on Lemmy but it has to be done at the instance level. Our instance has them disabled. Not a perfect solution but it does help address this issue.