Yeah, generally downvotes are pretty minimal across the board for sure.

Oh, for sure, I understand the distinction. Not seeing downvotes on your own posts is a good measure for reasons stated. I’m just saying also support a more aggressive stance, which is making downvotes off for new server instances, that’s all.

Yes. As a hexbear user where down votes are disabled I find the experience is much more enjoyable. Ideally down votes off would be the default for servers.

I love discovering little things like this. That’s a interesting find!

Score is relative though. On hexbear we have downvotes disabled. This means we can not down vote but also means down votes do not federate.

Studies have shown that down votes actually have a large psychological impact negatively on the user. Down votes are frankly unproductive. They might also encourage bad behavior, because if your goal is to stir the pot then down votes are a great indicator that it’s working.

On hexbear we operate on a fork of Lemmy. One of the changes is to the active algorithm, which makes posts decay faster then core Lemmy. Since the change things move pretty smoothly on the front page.

An automated system of banning is something primed for abuse. We see this already on other platforms that has trigger mechanisms for banning a user pending review. Its a shoot first ask questions later approach that could be weaponized against people.

Echo chamber is a very loaded term. A safe community is a protected community. To someone intruding on a space that values the community it has built, it might look like bad faith action. However, often the inverse is true, and the intruder is the one acting in bad faith. That could mean they willingly or ignorantly disregard the rules of a space, or are unwilling to listen and understand the perspective of a given space, and simply want to argue.

The value in Lemmy is that you can build and curate the kind of site culture and ultimately network culture you desire. If you do not like that culture, you can anyways find another place to hang out.

As it stands, you can implement your ideas using a bot. One thing definitely lacking on Lemmy is a kind of Auto moderator. It should be remembered though that auto moderator was a community built tool until Reddit assimilated it into the site as a core feature.

I stand corrected.

Kind of a disappointing read when 2 out of the 3 are not actually services you can use yet.

Why do you care about seeing downvotes? They’re bad for your health anyway.

Bespoke artisanal stars!

Yeah you need dynadns.

The API has an endpoint for marking posts as read. It would be a matter of adding a button to the interface to mark the post as read.

I’m sure if an issue was opened on the Lemmy UI side it could be implemented by someone.

Most corporations are not going to do that because they often standardize around products with known solutions for management that come with service guarantees. No one wants to support a small fleet of aging hardware running an os outside the dominant platform.

Anna’s archive.

LogSec is really nice and flexible.