I still don't think this solves the problem that you posed on emotions but thank you for at least proposing a solution instead of just pointing out a problem.
Since I don't see what you have suggested as a problem I don't think I have much more to add.
Are you advocating that we move back to Reddit? I am not going to do that.
And if you aren't advocating we move back to Reddit how do you want to solve this perceived problem?
(I am saying perceived because I don't see it as a problem because with the fediverse you have a choice about where you can be and what rules you have to follow, unlike Reddit. Meaning that there are still consequences if the users decide to leave.)
Oh, I didn't notice. I just saw this on UK memes and thought that it should've been here or in [email protected] instead.
Wait the pole can talk to the humans? I imagined that the poles could only talk to each other and observe how the humans in their neighborhood live their lives and talk to each other about it. But your version sounds fun. I mean it might even work as a small webcomic.
I just wanted to thank you for giving actionable advice to them and having a pleasant tone.
I want to watch that.
To add on I think it is also a thing of social norms. So if a plurality in a post starts being argumentative then it can become the default way others talk in other parts of the post.
So it sort of is an "Embody the change you want to see" thing.
No centralisation means there’s no canonical single source of truth.
I don't think this is a bad thing. Having centralization leads to one narrative taking over the post. With more decentralization, there is a natural way for different kinds of conversation to take root.
Also, this is going to occur much more when people get the ability to block instances anyway.
I agree with you. What do you think we as users could do to make this happen?
Also on a sidenote has anyone thought of creating a publicly owned instance before? I wonder how that would work.
Yeah, I was thinking of scraping the active users as well but from what I observed when trying different instances, the active users aren't counted separately by instance so the active users would just be all the active users on that community no matter where they are from. That info is already available on lemmyverse.net so I didn't want to copy it.
I bet there is a way to do this with the Lemmy API but I don't have a good understanding on how to use it so I am just waiting for someone more knowledgeable than me to try this again but with more care.
Edit: Unrelated but I went through the subreddit stats for a bunch of subs and it seems like posts and comments for a lot of them have dropped off after the API changes so that seems bad for Reddit and good for us.
Thank you! The [email protected] chart is surprising. I think what you suggested is the most likely reason why that's happening. Also maybe later I'll put up the code that I used to scrape the data so you guys can double-check if there were any bugs.
Edit: wording
How would you improve the idea?