and platforms who leverage network effect need to be held to different standards
Then do so. Come on. It's 2024.
Until something is seriously done, being able to at least go elsewhere has to be and is the rational option that is left.
lambalicious
joined 1 year ago
My solution for cases like this is sudo format c: /q && apt install linux.
If Lemmy were to integrate with Matrix the storage costs would explode exponentially, the two systems are notoriously heavy! (Lemmy is consistently the only service that fills more than 1 GB of storage in my browser and refuses to clean up).
XMPP is the true inheritor of IRC when it comes to standard, federated, self-hostable chat / messaging.
Unless they want it to be possible that people see their content.
That's what the airwaves are for.
But no, really, Youtube is neither that open nor that essential that the people not there are Somehow Invisible on the Internet. And even if that was somehow the case, you actually don't need to upload video, you can just use a normal youtube account to comment and link your content wherever relevant "conversations" lead there.
I apologize for not being able to find the button to Upvote Twice on lemmy. Once will have to suffice.
I yearn to find the lost knowledge of how to do those thingies!
Okay where is False?
There's like [checks notes] 2 more video platforms on the internet!
No reason these people can't post on those, or host their own.
Even nature is by nature left-biased, so if you lean left you are far less likely to get your facts wrong anyway.
I don't make the rules. It's other people who fail at life.
Yeah I mean it's basically a consequence that an upvote or a downvote can be for any number of reasons not shared from up- to down- or viceversa, and a simple voting system is ill-equipped to represent or contextualize that. Various solutions are viable, but my perspective is that if up+down-voting is here to stay, that part could be extended so that the act of voting could be this one bit more representative.
Another idea would be to just open it up and let people use any emoji to react.
Please no! XD We already have enough emoji as it is, not to mention they are comboable in non-portable ways or they change meaning according to the provider / renderer (GUN becoming WATER GUN is a good example).
But I do think there are valid "reaction sets" that could be interpreted with emoji, and pretty much all of them happen to match the examples you have provided:
Positive reaction / Upvote ; Negative reaction / Downvote.
Reaction of commiseration / offer of emotional support / "Hug" or w/e.
Reaction of joining in activity / offer of technical or factual support / "Let's do this".
Fun; Unfun
Reaction of surprise / "TIL" / "wow".
Factually correct ; Factually incorrect.
Reaction of "same", "this tbh", "mood" or other such neologisms
Ofc I prefer the reactions are biased towards promoting good interaction; I really don't see much use for reactions like "hostile / rude", "faggot", "kys" or stuff like that. Downvote and, depending on the case, Factually Incorrect and Unfun deal with most of that.
I mean , not with that attitude certainly. And dog that doesn't bark doesn't eat.
But if you want to be self-defeatist, you do you. I'd thought half the point you were even here, in a platform that is not GAFAM, was that you weren't.