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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Snoopy@jlai.lu to c/fediverse@piefed.social
 

Hi,

i want to explore the various way we can highlight content.

Currently, on the threadiverse, we use vote to show our approval, discontent...and we can couple it with a bot for moderation. Or hide post below a certain score...

Some instance completly removed downvote as Beehaw. Piefed is experimenting private vote. On other fediverse software, mastodon, iceshrimp, there is no downvote and we use emojis to express our feelings.

You also have website as https://slashdot.org/ where you can tell that comment was insightfull or a troll, or funny...

There is also also website that compare software or video as https://tournesol.app/


  • Do you think vote sould be private ? Public ? And why ?
  • Are you sastified with the current voting system ? And why ?
  • What other interesting software/website that tried something different do you know ?
  • What way do you imagine to highlight content and improve search, discoverability ?
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[โ€“] TootSweet@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not sure it's really possible to make votes private (at least not without sacrificing some functionality we have now.) Right now, instance admins can see vote information while non-admjns can't, which I do think is a bad thing. It does create a privileged class with additional information that ordinary users don't get. If there was a way to make votes private, I'd probably be ok with that, but again I'm not sure that's possible. (Instances have to be able to prevent double-/triple-/etc voting on a single post/comment by a single user. Maybe there's some cryptographic blind-signature wizardry that could be used to accomplish that while denying instance runners access to the information. I want to say I might have even come up with such an approach in a previous post and I might look back through my history for it, but it might also involve some concessions functionality-wise.) If that information has to be open to some, though, I think it should be open to all.

Aside from that, I like the upvote/downvote system as it is. It's simple works nicely. I honestly use "new"/"all" sort (excluding the communities I've blocked) nearly exclusively, so I don't have all that much invested in the "hot" sorting option that is the default probably on most Lemmy instances. But I like not having an algorithm (even one as good and fair as Lemmy's) curating my content for me.

Oh! On the sorting front, though, I'd love to have a "boost" option for specific communities. Like "hey Lemmy, no matter what sort I use, make sure any post that was made to !underwater_beekeeping@lemmy.beans in the last 48 hours always appears right at the top of my feed." Like, new/all (excluding blocks) is great, but there are communities I don't want to miss even a single post in ever and it'd be awesome to have that.

Actually, now that I think of it, I could just only subscribe to those "don't want to miss a single post" communities and check new/subscribed before I start doomscrolling new/all.

[โ€“] OpenStars@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can also set up to receive a "Notification" for a community... or a user, or a post (besides your own), or a comment - the Notifications feature is fantastic!

I like your idea better though, bc tbh receiving the notifications can quickly get overwhelming for a community that has many posts per day.

[โ€“] TootSweet@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Where's this "notification feature"? I'm more interested in community notifications than user, post, or comment notifications. But I'm looking at the community page and at my settings section and I'm not seeing anything about community notification settings. I can join/leave a community, of course, but it sounds like that's not what you're talking about. (I'm looking at Lemmy-UI at the moment. I use Jerboa on my phone, but it's honestly a little limited in a few ways, so I'd be surprised to find those settings in Jerboa.) Are you talking about the "send notifications to email" feature?

[โ€“] OpenStars@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah no, this is just one more of the now quite many things that PieFed has that Lemmy lacks. Sorry I didn't explain the context there.

PieFed takes some getting used to, bc it has so very many options to choose from. Most likely if you check it out, you'll immediately fall in love:-). Possibly even before making an account, although the notifications feature will ofc need an account to work.

Notifications specifically are the bell icon that appears all over the place - in this case next to the community name way up at the top.

[โ€“] TootSweet@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Ah! Gotcha. Thanks for the info.