I think it was fixed in 0.18.5 yea, I guess there could be some system to trust other moderators from other instances but then it's basically the same as it is now lol, where trusting==appointing moderators, really the same thing
Doesn't your suggestion mean that a user from a small instance or their own instance can make a bunch of garbage posts (or even illegal posts) and then a moderator from every single other instance will have to delete their posts separately? That's a ton of repeated work, and really opens up Lemmy to abuse.
Currently, communities are created and hosted on a single instance, and are moderated by moderators on that instance.
You can be a moderator of communities on different instances, my account here on programming.dev is a moderator of communities on other instances such as lemmy.ml
Yeah I think of downvotes as like micro-moderation, or crowd sourced curation. It's generally a good feature. They can be annoying sometimes but it's better than the alternative of bad/spam posts/comments flooding your feed.
Also they probably want to avoid the issue of a user accidentally sliding it all the way to the left and then being unable to use their phone lol, there'd be no way to fix it except finding a dark room (if you were even aware of what happened and why your screen "won't turn on")
yea idk, it's maybe like a fun bonus sometimes, but it's kinda like trying to put the square peg into the circle hole (where it doesn't fit, unlike the famous meme video lol)
Unpopular opinion: IDK why people want perfect interop so much, I have a Mastodon account and a Lemmy account, big deal. We've got bigger fish to fry than this. The formats are different enough that you're better off having separate accounts for microblogging and threadiverse.
Interop for similar platforms is a great feature, but for dissimilar platforms I don't think it's actually necessary just a novelty. Also I think people try to push this on new users as some big, useful, important feature, but I think it only confuses the new users.
Also I noticed most of the time when people complain about ActivityPub interop issues, it almost always ends up being Mastodon's fault lol. Probably because they were early to the party and didn't have to worry about interop and standards much back then. At least I hope it isn't malicious lol.
That's a cool idea. There have been somewhat related discussions, but I can't find any exactly like that. Maybe you should file an issue on GitHub for them?
Like, not being able to search for specific issues, people, or any other topic already posted even within your own instance is my biggest issue with Lemmy not being a sufficient replacement.
You can filter by type (post, user, community, etc), Local/All/Subscribed, searching within a community, choosing a sort option or restricting to past year/month/week.... I think it's much better than Reddit's search.
I don't think this is true, Lemmy is already using rel="canonical" which should be telling Google what the real URL is, like here on programming.dev I see this in the page source
Consolidating is hard because I'm a bit of a hoarder so I can't stand to unsubscribe from any of them lol. I don't mind the duplicate posts so much. But maybe someone can suggest which of those communities can be skipped in favor of others.
I think it was fixed in 0.18.5 yea, I guess there could be some system to trust other moderators from other instances but then it's basically the same as it is now lol, where trusting==appointing moderators, really the same thing