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What do you feel the Fediverse could improve on? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 6 days ago by pyrinix@kbin.melroy.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I think when it comes to blocking people, I can see some improvement there. I'm all about the idea of not adding fuel to the fire in the form of pointless online arguments and conflicts.

I see so many online platforms just fucking fail at the ways they try approaching that issue. Most places would let you block a user but they can still see everything that the blocked user has said. Like that opens the doors to exploiting and archiving. It is one thing if you're logged out and can see things site-wide than it is still being logged in and seeing what was said.

When I block someone, I want to be a ghost to them. I want them to not see anything I've said and I wouldn't want to see anything they've said either. I don't want to block them and find out they engage me on an alt just with things to continue the bullshit with.

I think the Fediverse has corrected that aspect that, when you log off, you can't see shit. So it prevents that. Though that's practiced from the instance I'm on for all I know.

However, when logged in and still blocking people, they can still see what was said by those who blocked them.

Furthermore and this is a bit of a controversial part, is that, I think moderation logs to be open is a bad idea. Again, it is to me, just one more thing to add to the fuel of a fire that isn't being let to wind down. Because people often jab and joust at others with shit like "LOOK WHUT U DID IN THUH MODERATION LOG!" and that just does nothing but escalate.

I think with some of these kinds of corrections, would promote the idea of a healthier ecosystem for the community.

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[–] claim_arguably@lemdro.id 4 points 6 days ago

I would like to see local feed of other instances directly.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (3 children)

The influx of new users in the last 4 months has shown me there needs to be some disincentive for posting the same regurgitated sentiment-based shit that you see every time you log in. Regurgitated sentiments and memes represent 95% of the content... yes AI bad... Israel bad... Cheese powder face man bad... I feel depressed... I can't afford a house... robots took my job. How many times can we as a community re-state what we already know to be true.

This is Reddit 2.0 let's not kid ourselves.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 6 days ago

It wouldn't be reddit 2.0 without complaints like this about popular social concerns being popular on social media.

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[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I actually like that blocking only stops you seeing their stuff. You shouldn't be able to stop someone else's account being unable to see your comments, that shouldn't be within your power. But if you can't see what they said, that should be enough for you, since they won't bother you any more. I'd even have it that blocking is entirely client side.

Another thing I would like though is the ability to group community and posts together so posts and comments can be linked together and smaller instances can get use without shovelling everyone to a single point of failure larger instance.

[–] pyrinix@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 6 days ago (4 children)

So what you're saying is that you like the idea of online arguments? No, I can't follow everything you've said in the first bit. If you want to argue with someone online, go do it in DMs or wherever else. Not at the expense of the community, nobody here usually comes to read sissy slapfights that usually escalate into insults and escalates into spite-reporting which drives mods/admins angry.

The Fediverse should be learning as to what not to be. This kind of behavior was very frequent on Reddit and still continues today. There should be an end to that kind of thing.

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[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 6 days ago

Better enforcement of accessibility. Besides the obvious, this would improve searches: often I can't use the search feature for posts of images of text, because alt text wasn't set.
A public modlog that can be linked independent of instance.
Content versioning, so we can review previous versions of edited posts/comments.

[–] Lorfan@lemmy.world -4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I want lemmy to look more exactly like old reddit. Also get rid of the preview button and replace it with "post" or something. It's completely pointless.

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