I've pointed a couple folks to Lemmy.world and it's uhhh, pretty hard Left for them (as one girl, who volunteered for the Democrats said "I just got yelled at because I can't be Left wing unless I want to destroy capitalism? Which feels weird.") We're much farther Left than reddit which itself was definitely Left of centre...

I don't know if decentralized open source social media actually attracts many mainstreamers but assuming we want to grow the fediverse, I'd like to have somewhere I can point people to without feeling very nervous for them.

Thanks!

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[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

An idea would be to allow "plug-in able" content sorting algorithms or content filters.

I hear so many stories of people slapping tons of filters in their clients (block all comments from ml users, block "Elon" and/or "Trump" keywords)... I think tons of people are running almost identical filters. Why not bake right into the Lemmy core the ability to pull filter sets from say, a public got repo?

Same with sorting. I'd love to have a "hot" algorithms that "punishes" posts based on comment sentiment analysis. Again, let me choose my sorting algorithm from a git repo. Let some person or persons develop a "good vibes" algorithm which keeps toxity off the top of my feed.

IMO, this is the way. Sorting by engagement has obvious issues. Introducing other weights to augment a system would make a huge difference in user experience.

You can't change the people. Look at this comment section. OP said they don't want to be yelled at and everyone took that cue to give a lecture. Completely no self awareness. Can't change that.

But you can improve the algorithm. And IMO if you could crowdsource that dev in a way that doesn't impose on mainline development.

[–] Lauchs@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I like all these ideas. I wondered about some sort of pooled "ban/ignore" options at the individual level. So, rather than ignoring by an instance, if I trust that Janet has good tastes and filters out children and trump, maybe I can just have an ongoing list that draws from her blocks and vice versa if she feels similar.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Yeah, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I really like the idea of people with likewise sensibilities being able to act as their own cross-community mod team, without impacting other groups with different sensibilities.