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I like this idea, I don’t think I’ll heavily enforce it but it is a good idea, I’ve added it to the rules

You have to upload an album on another site and link it, albums aren’t supported yet on lemmy

Lol I love how it gave her a panty pad

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It’s not a platitude, it’s just a fact. Just trying to inform. You don’t have to subscribe to every single community, just the ones you want. If you are part of a community you can use downvotes to help shape that community. If you’re not part of that community then would it not make sense that you don’t have a vested interest in the content of it outside of removing spam?

If you want a post removed because it’s spam, downvotes isn’t going to do that. Report it, so that I or any of the other mods/admins, that check reports every day, can remove the post and ban the offender if need be.

If their content isn’t a good fit for the community please do report

Downvotes work if you are subscribed to a community for a week or more

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I agree, discoverability of these these types of things needs to be better. Perhaps we can implement something like that, or have a community of the week or something. This is a very good point.

I would recommend uploading to carbox or redgifs and pasting the link into the post, even on the subs on reddit mod that’s what I tell people. The site image hosting solutions on both lemmy and reddit aren’t great.

I personally like catbox because you don’t have to make an account.

Additionally, growth takes time, some of the kinks with the platform will be slowly worked out, and more people will come, our usersbase since the initial dropoff of users has slowly being going up for the most part.

About a decade ago, Reddit was also a site you checked every week or so. I think our growth is already faster than those old days of Reddit, and it may take a year or two for things like better more users, better mod tools, better post algorithms, and more stability in apps to show up, but for a social media network that isn’t for profit, lemmy us doing very well and will continue to get better and better and thrive more and more

I think you’re very right about a misunderstanding of what upvotes and downvotes do on lemmy, the system that serves posts to users is very simple in lemmy, and some semblance of an algorithm would help a lot.

I also think the downvote issue wasn’t as big of an issue on Reddit because they’ve always fudged their numbers post scores, even moreso when the platform was smaller. They would intentionally make the number of votes fluctuate to prevent downvotes brigading and they would even limit how many votes could be applied to a post at one time. That’s why the top posts of subreddits used to stay the same for literal years, if that many peoples votes made it through, that meant the post got REALLY popular. Maybe that’s something else we could look into.

AutoMod tools are the answer, if a comment has certain keywords, or even a negative sentiment a good automod can remove the comments pretty much immediately. We’ve talked about automod for awhile, and I definitely want it, I’m going to start experimenting with existing solutions soon.

We’ve talked about wanting to implement an automod solution for awhile, and finally there are some tools for that, I personally am going to start experimenting with some of the tools, and will begin to provoke more chats with the other admins to start creating a plan of action in regards to that.

Also, as far as separate instances like that, that can get muddy, I think, unless you have a really clear definitions of what’s “too hardcore.”

What we don’t allow on the site are

• things that are illegal (like CSAM and beastiality)
• things that would be illegal to host on the sites servers because of where they’re located (like animated beastiality, shota and loli)
• things that are generally considered very extreme (like scat and barf)

The last one is because lemmy doesn’t have a good automod system and most people don’t want to see that kind of thing. I would argue that, outside of those things, what people are into varies greatly and that’s why we allow pretty much everything else.

I think the problem lies in the fact that, unlike reddit and most other social media platforms, lemmy has no personalized algorithms. This means that everyone on an instance gets the same “hot” and “active” page. So I think the main reason the content seems all over the place is because the algorithms aren’t personally catered. Reddit has just as many, if not more, niche communities, but their “best” and “hot” pages have personalized algorithms so that you see more of what you like.

Personalized algorithms like that aren’t insanely difficult to create, but it’s the nuances of it that are difficult. It’s something I would like to look into and partner with some of the other admins that have dev experience to maybe create for use on any lemmy server, but as of now there is nothing developes on that front.

That being said, I don’t think the answer is to split the content even more by making more instances and then having potentially even more uncertainty about what is and isn’t allowed.

I think the answer is for us admins and mods to continue to do our best to reduce toxicity, to continue to improve our mod tools, and continue to have active discussions about what would be good for the growth of the instance.

But if you have other reasoning that you feel that the instance is having an identity crisis, I’m all ears, we’re always open to constructive criticism and suggestions to improve the overall user experience on the instance

We saw a decrease in users when there were mass downvotes, we changed how downvotes worked and since then we’ve seen and increase in activity.

We’re talking about implementing automod features, not sure how soon that’ll happen, but it will definitely happen.

Another thing that disincentives some people is the lack of filtering of rude comments, if a comment is rude or downvoted on reddit it is automatically hidden, so maybe that is something we can look into for when we implement automod

Just know that we’re not just sitting on our laurels doing nothing, the mods and admins are constantly talking about how to improve this community

We’re working on the hostility aspect, it’s slowly improving, and we’re slowly getting more OC posters, it just takes time.

As an admin I see more and more posts in general and more OC posts every day. Our growth is slow and organic, and until there’s larger roadblocks on reddit it’ll probably stay that way, but given reddit is going public this year, we will most likely see some of those road bumps start to happen.

Until then, the admin team and mods are working to get her to reduct toxicity and make it a good place to post, we’ve even implemented some bespoke code to prevent mass downvotes, and we’re talking about implementing some sort of automod. We will continue to improve the experience as best we can and we will continue to slowly but surely grow.

Wow 4gifs, haven’t seen that watermark in ages. Everything about this image screams late 2000’s lol

While I agree with you that the community limited downvotes was always the best option, the reason we disabled them at that time is we had several creators say they were fed up with the level of downvotes and toxicity and were on the verge of leaving, and the community upvote solution didn’t exist so we had to act fast.

Afterwards we saw a significant drop in the level of toxicity and an immediate increase in original content after we disabled downvotes.

Thanks to fellow admin xaeg for crancking out that change so quickly! Speaking as a dev, working in a newish language and in a new code environment is hard, and he cranked that out really quickly.

I use reddit for porn still. But I also use this, the communities are slowly growing, and we admins are trying to get user engagement up and toxicity down.

We’ve already brought back downvotes, just limiting them to communities you’ve been subscribed to for a week.

Additionally the admins here are here “in the trenches” so to speak wayyy more than reddit admins. If you report a spambot or someone who’s being incredibly toxic the response will be much quicker.

We also are listening to what our users want, and we do our best to align what we do with what they want, while still being effective admins, like with the upvote changes.

Instead of fully switching to one or the other, I recommend a hybrid approach, and also, if anyone here posts on reddit, maybe post the same post here too, or instead. That way we can get even more people posting.

All in all, sustainable organic growth takes time. And we are literally a decade behind reddit in age, so it makes sense to not fully commit to lemmynsfw yet.

We’re not as user or feature rich as reddit, but the lemmy devs are working hard, and we even have devs working on changes for our particular instance. Lemmy and lemmynsfw are getting better and more users day by day. It’ll just take some time.

Yes they work for me on apps