Browsing new or Hot and seeing 15 posts in a row to /imaginarytanks, /imaginarycars, /imaginaryaviation, etc. got old the 2nd time I’ve seen it. I’ve had to resort to blocking the communities and bot that’s just spamming for content.
Browsing new or Hot and seeing 15 posts in a row to /imaginarytanks, /imaginarycars, /imaginaryaviation, etc. got old the 2nd time I’ve seen it. I’ve had to resort to blocking the communities and bot that’s just spamming for content.
Surely a lot of those subs can just be one single sub, imaginary vehicles would cover tanks, planes, boats, mechs etc…no need for so many
I’m already trying to bulk up whatever I can into one subs because reddit imaginary subs have a sub for every damn niche thing lol:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginaryBestOf/wiki/networksublist/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginaryUnofficial/wiki/index/
I will move tanks sub and mecha sub into vehicles sub because they will be adding tags to the platform and unlike reddit you will be able to use multiple tags for one post so there won’t be any need for dedicated subreddits because filtering should be easy enough, you’re right. I think that I will leave aviation sub as it is though because it’s deistinct enough to keep it as a separate sub. Thank for the feedback!
Edit: for example, not long ago I moved imaginary feels into more general sub imaginary emotions, so it’s not like I’m not trying to fight those problems. It’s just a bit confusing to make more general sublemmies because reddit had subreddit for each specific things and it’s hard to shift to doing it in another way haha.
Edit2: yeah, I will need to rethink (again) how I will do things with with imaginary subs. I will stop posting temporarily on the ones that I’m not sure what will happen with them yet.
Edit3: Actually, maybe I will merge imaginary aviation and ships together but I’m not sure how well the platform will work if a community will have tens of tags.
Edit4: Another reason for why I didn’t include everything under a more generalised sublemmies is that if a person subscribes to a community then it will show ALL the posts on it and not only the content that the person is interested it. I pitched an idea on github for advanced filtering options for tags, maybe I should also mention them that it would be good to have an option to subscribe to tags on communities so it doesn’t show all the content from them. But that also sounds like something that will be needed to be done in the backend and will take a really long time to implement, ugh.
i agree with you - I’m personally interested in trains (obviously); but not really cars, tanks, etc. so i like the separate communities
i didn’t know about the tags thing though, that’s interesting. do you have a source?
Here’s the github issue for this, I will be contacting the person that works on them later to discuss more advanced filtering and tag following after the basic tag functionality gets implemented: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/317
hmmm. i personally really dislike almost every idea discussed in that issue. thank you for the link though
Can you tell me what exactly do you dislike? Becasue I will be discussing things with the person that will code it (if he responds).
hooh boy. i'm going to make this foldable because this will be a long comment
in general, i think a hierarchical community system would be leagues better than a tags system. for tags to be really useful, they have first-class citizens: allow me to subscribe to just
/c/community@instan.ce#favouritetag
(or/c/community#favouritetag@instan.ce
?)[1], allow me to subscribe to just that tag with rss, and allow me to add just that tag to a multicommunity, when they’re released. with all of those features, it may as well be a subcommunity, but i digressthis issue seems to be confused between two or three different things called tags, as well, which is an issue for readability but never mind
i quite like this. i’m presuming it’d be similar to reddit’s “flair” system
this i would say is another point in favour of tags, as the mod of a community could add them whereas we currently can’t edit post titles (which is good)
i can’t remember, however, whether reddit allowed >1 flair per post. this seems like something that’s almost compulsory
this seems like a terrible idea. i will copy a comment from reddit and the response from the sift developer, which didn’t really solve my qualms:
now i personally dislike that idea. i don’t want my experience curated by a “reputation graph”, i want it curated by me. but this is a bit of a digression as i presume this idea was never really considered
this actually seems like a reasonable idea, but it was abandoned due to mastodon[2]
this is a great idea! there should definitely be more than one “blur post” tag. in fact, an editable
CW: reason
[3] so that users can pre-emptively block tw tags they don’t even want to see blurred would be great tooto be honest, i think the current “spoiler” formatting is bad as well - it should just be called “folded text” or “<details><summary>” or something, and have a spoiler system that just blurs, or blacks out the text/images which would work as block or inline
so zcdunn is proposing they’re cross-community? that sounds like it would make things awfully cluttered
see my thoughts on sift. i’d rather posts be crossposted so that the comments sections would be separated per community
as a less inflammatory example: if a cinnamon news post is tagged
Cinnamon
andLinux
, half the comments will be “man, i could never use cinnamon, they don’t even support wayland”, drowning out actual cinnamon users because there’s less of themthis is the only good use of them, but see my first point
this is, in my opinion, the worst possible solution. twitter posts read completely disjointedly, as there are random punctuation marks and diffferent coloured text strewn haphazardly throughout the post, like twitter. it becomes almost unreadable. just tag them when posting, like we do with
nsfw
currentlyemphasis mine
i’m not entirely sure i see this - dessalines never explained why it would increase moderation…
this is another great idea; and ideally would be added to the url scheme as well (
/c/community@instan.ce+#wantedtag-#unwantedtag
? i’m not sure how to implement this)you are on fire here
that’s pretty much everything i have to say, i’m sorry it’s so long. any comment i haven’t commented on i either agree with, am neutral on, or haven’t seen
edit 2023-07-12:
this also sounds awful. it will just propagate what is currently popular, making it more popular. this is already a problem with sorttype=active. it will cluster all the conversation into one tag, making it continuously popular. don’t do this.
issue #1459
i missed these, so i’ve never used them; but this seemed like a really good idea
ah, shame
edit: don’t use hashes for this. they don’t work in urls. i’m dumb. ↩︎
honestly i feel a lot of my issues stem from interopability with mastodon. i wish we weren’t interoperable with mastodon. the twitter model breeds vapid and pointless comments like this. i’d rather a static tag similar to reddit’s, as that’s designed for a link aggregator not a microblogging site. but maybe that’s just me ↩︎
e.g.
CW: Gore
,CW: Sexual Abuse
etc. ↩︎I agree with you. A flair system like Reddit has seems reasonable to further organize a community but hashtags like Mastodon or Twitter would be a mess IMO
oh hi tywele
did you really read all of that? i’m impressed
I need to mentally prepare my ADHD brain for this before reading it xD. I will go do something else before I get ready lol.
no worries, i don’t even expect you to respond to all of it. i did just sort of ramble for a while. but i thought it might be good to have on hand when you talk to neshura
i didn’t even read it that much, so i apologise for any formatting errors (i wrote it in a text editor outside of lemmy)
Sublemmy isn’t a thing. It’s community or c/
Seriously, it will help you a lot to stop thinking like this is reddit, because it isn’t, and trying to treat it like it is leads to this kind of thing.
All those niche subs? They didn’t start out there, and weren’t useful for the most part because even with the reddit size user base, there weren’t enough active posters to keep them relevant.
Lemmy is smaller and more distributed. Currently, having ten similar but not exactly the same C/s on the same instance is just going to make discovery harder for each of them. And, it dilutes the content making each one seem unpopulated more than they otherwise would be.
I promise, I’m not bashing you with pedantry over terminology! It’s about the already established culture within lemmy from before the current migration being respected, and shifting the way we think about how we interact with the fediverse.
I dunno, “sublemmy” specifies that I’m talking about a community on lemmy which is a part of the fediverse so I find it kinda fitting.
Edit: also when I talk about lemmy community outside this platform it’s just quicker to use one word “sublemmy” for it.