Fediverse

My take for the fediverse would include:

• Again, downvote not for disagreement but for content that clearly does not contribute to the discussion. Reason should not be given, as downvoting should be done sparingly and should not require a reason (for most sane human beings).

• Be aware when interacting cross-instances. Culture, norms, and rules may differ.

• Unless the instance operator is fine with it, limit your self-content sharing and self-promotion.

• Remember that most of the fediverse instances are independent and they owe you nothing. The instance operator's decisions are final.

• Do not squat names on multiple servers unless it's what you generally have been using.

• Cats are still the supreme beings. The fediverse resides on the Internet (assuming that it runs on TCP/IP), so the cat supremacy rule applies.

Showing the reason you edit a post isn't dumb, its to give a valid reason so people don't think you edited to make someones response look bad. Saying its for context, adding a word or whatever just shows you didn't edit it maliciously.

The whole "edit: thanks for gold and I can't believe my most upvoted comment was about editing!" can go away for sure though

if you see something which is worthy of a downvote: down vote and move on! Don't engage with it and feed the algorithm/engament machine so other people are exposed to it when sorting by active.

Disagree. You should politely state why you disagree. Engagement is good for newer websites like lemmy and you don't need to be rude or combative to disagree. One of my issues with reddit is when people would get downvoted for making a fair point or observation.

I'm very curious as to what people's view on etiquette is regarding submitting your own content. I write a weekly newsletter about the fediverse which is pretty relevant to this community for example. But I'm also quite aware of reddiquette thats pretty hesitant on submitting your own stuff, as it can get spammy really fast. Would love to hear.

I like the "edit:" append if I edited something, just to make it clear for whoever comes later.

What's the problem with it?

I only agree with two rules: be awesome to each other (if in kind) and downvote is not a disagree button, it's a troll button.

Dictating other rules, like the use of the edit keyword or how to measure scale of something... Is not awesome.

Listen, I'll measure with a fucking banana if I feel like it, okay. Don't tell me what to do pal.

To be honest building a edit history views makes more sense to me. This project is opensource we can do more than work around.

We don’t need to append “edit: typo” to edited posts and comments.

I didn't do that because it was reddit etiquette. I did it because people can see I edited my post, and I would like them to be able to see why

I rate this post 0.5 ~~bannanas~~bananas. edit: typo

I'm an old age redditor, and that was may reddiquette, "don't downvote just because you don't like the topic, maybe other people find it interesting".

Mostly I don't downvote at all, only on some rude or spam posts.

Reddit just become something where everyone downvote everything for no reason, even if just say "OK" ou "that's cool"!
On Lemmy (ate least for now), not so much or I don't see it.

If you see a post "orange is the best color", don't downvote just because you don't like orange, leave a comment and express your opinion instead

PS: There's an old Reddiquette song, the same can be applied to fediverse
https://youtu.be/4fLpktf2jYw

It's not really an algorithm, you see posts based on the type and sort order you select. Sorting by "hot" counts votes, sorting by "active" counts posts. My default is Subscribed and New. When I get through all the new stuff I check Active and Hot.

In any case, yeah there's stuff I hope not to see here. So far so good and hopefully it will stay that way for a while.

What's so wrong about using bananas for scale?

I think it's polite to tell what you have changed when you edit a post as long as the platform does not have edit history visible (which as far as I can tell Lemmy does not).