Asklemmy

I said this in a similar thread, and it relates to some of the comments here about echo chambers and the like.

Allowing users to suppress virality whenever the feed is sorted by “Hot” or “Active” or “Top” by weighing the value of a post by the popularity of the community it comes from. This way, posts with a small amount of upvotes from a small community can be considered as equally “Hot” as those from bigger communities.

Ideally it’s be an option in selecting the sorting of your feed, but I think even if users only use it sometimes it will help diversify feeds here … and be something Reddit never did too AFAIU.

If meta-communities were to also arrive and be combined with this, you could end up with a really powerful set of feed controls.

EDIT: spelling (vitality -> virality)

I have exactly zero confidence that these or other bad pattern will not emerge as the community grows larger

i really wish that most threads - such as threads on asklemmy or similar where "serious responses only" by default

coz otherwise all we'll see is the jokes being upvoted because people like to laugh. but... often you'd either have to read 200 comments to find a proper response, or you'd never find it.

alternatively, you can have a "seriousquestions" and a "askwhatever" community, so everyone is happy

I might be in the minority here (also maybe I don't want "DAE" questions coming either..), but it'd be nice if the political discussions stayed in their respective communities. It's important, but it was getting to the point where EVERY thread would deviate into childlike insults at the political level.

• I also chose this man’s ____, and my axe, “we did it”
• incessant reposts
• nazi’s / skinheads
• karma bait / outrage bait
• small handful handful of moderators overseeing hundreds of magazines. (Gallowboob situation)

Repetitive over posting of same content (looking at you Dadario) across channels/instances.

Fake stories made up for engagement (be it poop stories or fake cum-related bullshit aimed at mouth breathing teens)