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Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by bazmattaz »

nottorp wrote: post #51
davidcollantes wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t see this approach as a viable one, but time will tell. I never subscribed to the Startrek subreddit, but having it on an isolated website instead of been agglomerated on a solution like Reddit will have an engagement decrease, especially when people who subscribed to the sub still participates in other subreddits.

> will have an engagement decrease That's great! A community should have interesting discussion, not engagement!

Well unless it’s lack of engagement from the most valuable users.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

#142

Post by Havoc »

BizarreByte wrote: post #59
stcroixx wrote: post #16

And for those of us with no interest in following the mods, can /r/Startrek be opened again? If the old mods moved platforms, there’s no need to keep this private.

Seriously though, it's absurd that such a small group of incredibly privileged users (mods) get to speak for the majority and make decisions for them. Reddit should be removing these mods, adding new ones, and reopening subs. Mods shouldn't get to hold entire communities hostage when they throw a tantrum. Anyone can moderate a subreddit, these mods aren't special and they're completely replaceable. They should be rem…

Calling mods privileged is hilarious. It’s basically glorified janitor. You end up dealing with a bunch of crazy people and drama for zero compensation…and then get shat on because well someone is always upset regardless of what you decide.

> they’re completely replaceable

Not really. The pool of people both willing to do the above and are any good at keeping the peace is pretty finite

Above is why I stopped being a mod. It’s a pretty thankless task

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

#143

Post by BizarroLand »

Zetice wrote: post #140
BizarroLand wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The people who care will move on, the people who don't can play with the leftovers. It's fine. People still use MySpace after all. Over time, the newbies will start to realize that they're using a hollowsite and start looking for more substance, and they'll come find us wherever we happen to be.

Yeah, and "wherever the community happens to be" will be Reddit. Mods have zero control over this.

What?

1: You didn't quote what I said, you quoted what you felt like I said. 2: Your wording is ambiguous. It could read as either reddit has already won and there is no use fighting it (which is some malarkey) or that wherever the people gather to have the conversations that they used to have on reddit.com will become reddit (which is weird but ok)

Which one do you mean? Malarkey or Weird?

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

#144

Post by bazmattaz »

tmaly wrote: post #112

This lemmy site they have migrated to reminds me of something Matt's script archive would produce back in the early 90's. Did they style this for nostalgia?

I couldn’t agree more. Lenny looks like it was designed and built by devs, for devs.

Given that a large proportion of Reddit users are likely not technical I think Lemmy will have a hard job of attracting and keeping those users. Maybe that’s by design I don’t know.

Would it hurt to have a designer look over it?

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

#145

Post by remram »

Spivak wrote: post #89
remram wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's like HN is actually multiple people or something...

Pssh, everyone but me is a bot. Pretending that HN doesn't have a prevailing orthodoxy is naive. And it's disappointing because in this thread the force of comment sections being contrarian is overpowering the force of the news being something that a lot of people in this community have wanted for a long time.

The prevailing orthodoxy will not necessarily emerge within the first hour of a post being created. In a few more hours, the opinion you expect will have appeared, and your comment will make no sense.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

#146

Post by PaulHoule »

paholg wrote: post #137
PaulHoule wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The smaller you are the less it matters. One thing that annoys me about Mastodon is that the medium amplifies angry toots, particularly about politics. I don't want to read anything where anybody active after 1945 is accused to be "a Nazi" or "a fascist" for instance. Because there are so many toots to read I have no problems losing some toots so if the model rejects some stuff because it is about a topic that people…

So what do you call white supremacists who adorn themselves with swastikas?

“Clowns” or “Dumbasses who want to get attention.”

That is maybe 5% of the people who that N-word gets applied to. Mostly it is an attempt at dehumanization that follows very much the playbook of Herr Hitler himself. If the antics of the occasional Nazi cosplayer get blocked that is not collateral damage, it is a very good thing even if it off target. That stuff gets amplified so much that somebody else is likely to show up to counterprotest and pelt them with a bag of little bolts (a tactic that the Spartacus League used to great effect when the KKK showed up in Auburn, NY.)

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

#147

Post by kgwxd »

Under "Create a post"

> You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !startrek@startrek.website

The phrasing of the paragraph implies, to me, that putting !startrek@startrek.website in search on my instance is an alternative to signing up and logging in.

I tried on my social.librem.one search, nothing found. Is that me misunderstanding how it works? A missing feature on librem.one? Something else?

If that's not an alternative to signing up and I have to create a new account on every new Lemmy thing, there's just no way this platform is ever replacing Reddit.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by lyvxh »

kgwxd wrote: post #147

Under "Create a post" > You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !startrek@startrek.website The phrasing of the paragraph implies, to me, that putting !startrek@startrek.website in search on my instance is an alternative to signing up and logging in. I tried on my social.libre…

If you're on Mastodon, you need to use @startrek@startrek.website instead of !startrek@startrek.website

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

#149

Post by kgwxd »

malermeister wrote: post #94
Stephen304 wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, you'll see posts both from startrek.website as well as other instances on the home page. You can subscribe to remote communities as long as you do it from startrek.website (and don't accidentally follow a link to another instance where your startrek.website login won't work), and all of your local and remote subscriptions will be combined in your subscribed feed on your home instance.

> (and don't accidentally follow a link to another instance where your startrek.website login won't work) I feel like there really needs to be a browser extension that does the appropriate redirects to make this problem go away. It's a really bad UX rn.

If a the only way to fix a usability problem is via browser extension, the entire concept should have been left on the cutting room floor.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

#150

Post by [deleted] »

jrm4 wrote: post #24
modzu wrote: post #6

this is so sad. i understand the protest, but it feels like burning books. is all that prior information gone? or is the protest temporary way to get the community migrated away but content will be restored for historical purposes?

Not to be a jerk about it, but this is why you shouldn't have stored the books in a warehouse owned by a company that could lock the doors at any time. This is the opposite of why the 'net was invented.

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