Community Feedback & General Discussion Thread (Week 1) [META]
Hello everyone! Once again, I would first like to say thank you to every one of you for being here! This will be a series of weekly posts where we give feedback to you & listen to what our users have to say. It is also fit for any type of general discussion.
Since our previous post, we have more than doubled the amount of activity we were celebrating! Thanks to your helpful efforts, we've received lots of amazing feedback and constructive criticism, and updated our list of rules and approach accordingly. We're working together to have a community that is truly owned by its users, and it seems to be working nicely. :)
Our list of partnered communities also got quite extensive, which we think is pretty amazing. Please feel free to check them out from our sidebar, and you'll see that some of them are small communities, barely starting. Let's help them grow & gain the content they need!
What else would you like to see in this community? How would you feel about having an AutoMod here?
On another note, how was your day?
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So, Lemmy soapbox a little bit:
I've felt that /r/eli5 was some of the best content in the Old Country, but somewhere along the way, it lost the fun aspect it once had. Everything there is so sanitized that it no longer has the feeling of community anymore.
In the age of large language models, getting a simplified summary of a complex idea is pretty much just a copypaste away, and I don't really see the need of having a place for what ELI5 currently is when it can be automated away, but I'm willing to admit that I may be wrong.
My ultimate goal would be having a place for people to explain things that would not be possible for machines, it should be entertaining to read instead of making your eyes glaze over, because first and foremost, on Lemmy, we are rebuilding a place for specifically people to get engaged and inspired by each other, because that's what a community is.
There's overlap between NSQ here and NLE of course, but I think the best way to explain it (or, Now Lemmy Explain: ) is that NSQ focuses on getting any answer to simple questions, while NLE focuses on getting simple answers to any question.
So, if you have any topic you'd like to have explained, please make a post there, and we'll all try our best.