Was reading about the why is programming.dev federated with us post on DMT and was reading some of the comments like this one which specifically mentions my latest meme. Now, Idgaf what the one guy thinks, but I don’t really want to be the (or a predominant) cause of us getting defedded even more either.

So I was wondering: a) is it possible and b) if it makes sense that we would want to hide those kinds of subs from the main page. If this was already discussed somewhere else, then sorry for rehashing but I couldn’t find it.

I think hiding things from default feed might be possible based on this: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2072

Anyway I don’t know jack shit about the lemmy codebase, settings, etc so no clue if I am even reading this right.

Note: I am not suggesting any particular course of action, only asking what people here think and if it might be worthwhile as sort of an olive branch to other instances while we still have our fun in the various subs. Assuming it even possible. I’m fine with whatever, just thought I’d ask.

  • i-liek-french-toast@exploding-heads.comOPEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Yeah, I could be way off and it’s not actually possible (at least not currently)

    I did see one of the linked PRs here

    https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/2055

    Had something about it but it also has this

    2. Hidden communities do not show up in all, local, or trending unless subscribed

    Which might mean that hiding it is more of a full-site action that would affect Search too and frankly if that’s the only option, I vote for no way, not worth it

    • Masterofballs@exploding-heads.com
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      11 months ago

      That was my pull request. And my first attempt to try to please free speech folk and other instances. people didn’t like it and no one used it.

      All it did was piss off the free speech crowd and did not make the sjws happy.

      • i-liek-french-toast@exploding-heads.comOPEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Thanks for the insight, hadn’t realized that was you or that you guys had already discussed all of this. Guess it isn’t worth bothering then.

        I was concerned about contributing to the problem but it sounds like it is a problem that would exist even if I stopped posting offense memes and such in dankmemes or if that was hidden from front page. I didn’t really expect the complainers would be satisfied with something like that but figured if someone was specifically complaining about my posts appearing on main page in a defed discussion, I should at least check in with EH people that they don’t mind

        • Masterofballs@exploding-heads.com
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          11 months ago

          We could build better moderation tools, better fine tuning for the individual user but in the greater lemmy community it won’t matter. It’s about control of narrative not about freedom. Instances will still defederate because they hate you and everything good. Lemmy was made by communist for redditors. Just think about that for a moment. The kind of people that make up it’s user base . And they employ bots and dozens of alts when shit talking about other instances to appear larger than life. Well balanced people don’t have time for that kinda bull shit. I don’t want to add any more value to lemmy and prefer to instead build off nostr. Where I still see a path forward for multiple ways of thinking in a singleish arena.

          Maybe if activity pub gets decentralized identities I’ll revisit that thought.