JackbyDev

“☝️🤓 you do not have enough karma to post in this community!” Well what the fuck community am I supposed to post in when all the ones I want to post in won’t let me!?

All you gotta do is post stuff like “thank you to the brave firefighters” on posts involving firefighters. Not knocking on firefighters or trying to diminish their contributions, but it was always hilarious seeing how many top comments basically said nothing more than that. I was always doing it as satire but I don’t think people realized.

You can view your individual comments’ scores, but there is no built in summation across comments you can view.

Don’t post identifying shit in the first place if you don’t want it up. Learn how search functions work if you don’t wanna manually shift through shit.

Like I said: loss of information because people are whiny babies about this shit is a bigger deal to me than someone removing information nobody else actually gives a shit about

Just quoting this for posterity because it’s such an asinine and victim blaming way of thinking. Enjoy the block. Nothing of value is lost.

So if someone is worried they’ve compromised their identity you’d want them to have to manually sift through potentially thousands of posts and comments? 🙄

You’re just assuming helpful information is somehow separate from identifying information. That’s not necessarily the case.

You don’t get to decide what’s identifiable and what’s not. How do you know the useful information isn’t identifying?

This is such a goofy take. Yes, obviously you can never be 100% there isn’t some copy or archive laying somewhere, but wanting it to be deleted for 99% of the ways people would find it is reasonable. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

It doesn’t matter. If someone believes they’ve linked too much and wants to delete it, they should be able to. If someone wants to delete their content for any reason they should be able to.

Not everyone sees everything. It feels like gate keeping to assume everyone has to have seen everything based on their join date.

Ew.

You can actively want to do something but be bombarded with minute ultimately irrelevant details and still get frustrated.

It’s not that it’s “too hard”, it’s that even a tiny set back for something that someone is already hesitant to do can be enough to make them not do it. It’s just easier to call that “hard” or “confusing” than say “even a tiny set back for something that someone is already hesitant to do can be enough to make them not do it.”

You have to think of it from a micro blogging perspective. Imagine I have a ton of followers and have created a culture of them attacking anyone I attack. It makes more sense how it is bullying in that context.

Edit: Also, to be clear, I’m not arguing against this feature, just explaining how it can be used for bullying.

(This is an example.)

Get a load of this idiot! They can’t imagine how quoting someone can be bullying!

I’ve never heard the phrase but I’m 10000% positive that’s what it means.

Quality content as usual. I appreciate the thought you’ve put into this and agree with your reasoning.

1. Stop making blanket claims about instances you like or dislike, no matter how fair you feel they may be, and don’t fall for the bait of others doing it. This is just drama and is exhausting to read about.
2. Instead of suggesting people “join Lemmy”, say things like “Join Lemmy at programming.dev” (or whatever instance you yourself are using). Sure, “but picking a server is hard” will always probably be a complaint, but leading with the one you personally use is the best way around it. If you’re on a hobby focused instance (like I am) then maybe suggest a generic instance to people outside of your hobby. Don’t be afraid to suggest lemmy.world. It’s better to suggest the biggest instance than endlessly debate about which one is the best to suggest.

When referring to communities on Lemmy please use the proper link format. !community@instance

Why didn’t I hear about this until the day of?