I immensely appreciate your transparency on this issue and the goal to create a safe-space for people.
Originally, I didn't agree with the enacted solution... but your previous post - did add a lot of context (I'd suggest to those who don't agree with the policy change to read it first, before commenting).
I hope these moderation tools are developed quickly - so this "quick fix/nuke" can be removed.
Oh now that you mention it, a sharable link would be a must. This would promote curated "Awesome..." repos/links.
It would be ideal if it were part of the fediverse naming convention. For example "/m/multi-subreddit-name/c/group1@domain1/c/group2@domain2/..."
It would allow full transparency, the ability to update / change it... places could even provide URL shorteners for it.
Edit 2: formatting (come'on Lemmy don't let me down)
In principle I agree with karma turned posts into people gaming the system.
However, I've heard one of the struggles for Lemmy Communities is to keep people from lurking.
Karma might be a stupid feature but it is/was a cheap way of driving participation - it could help Lemmy (especially at this early stage). Even if karma encouraged people to just up voted, it still raised visibility on the more interesting topics.
Malicious Compliant Deep Thoughts : You could create a group here on Lemmy, start topics and discussions there. Then link those Lemmy posts on Reddit. The Reddit Users will figure it out. :)
Eh, don't be so sure.
Email is often drawn as something similar to the fediverse. ... but if you've ever tried to run a small Mailserver, you'll quickly find that "the big corps" have created a walled garden that'll keep the "small fish" out.
It's all based on what the big players view as your "reputation". This is based on proprietary metrics (usually how many emails you send), but your reputation will determine if the email is delivered or not.
You can find more information here.
... but the point is that one big corps consolidate and reach the size (in terms of traffic/content) like Hotmail, Gmail, yahoo, etc - they will not hesitate to squeeze out the smaller fediverse fish to force them into paying to use the bigger pond.
Sadly ... this is just business as usual.
Yup, that's me. I'm trying to make lemmy my new home and limit my access to Reddit (vote with your feet). I still check Reddit for the polls and a few nitch communities that don't exist on Lemmy (yet)
Regarding your comment about "small communities" not really developing: Couldn't we just have a simple technical solution? Communities that aren't "active" just get pruned, culled or just removed from the search.
This would allow the opportunity for some of those "small communities" to thrive (while others die out).
I'm like the parent poster. I came from Reddit and joined /r/GameDeals and /r/PatientGamers but I specifically did not joins /r/Games. Why? Because for me there was too much noise and content I wasn't interest in /r/Games, but GameDeals + PatientGamers combined offered me more quality with less noise.
I'm kind of frustrated with Lemmy that I need to filter through all the Gaming communities (and noise) just to sort-of keep tabs on what's happening in the community.
Oh, I hope this (eventually) works with Skyrim VR!
One feature suggestion for Lemmy someone made: Create something like a multi-subreddit with Lemmy groups .
I love the idea. Basically, you could toss all the fragemented tech topics into a single multi-subreddit, giving you the ability to browse through a single topic but spanning different Lemmy installations.