auto closing/suspending stale communities stale could be defined as unanswered mod reports, no mod activity (no post, comment, login in x time period), no posts

No. I’ve seen several times people ask the admins if they could take over a community. And it happened. Thus reviving dead communities.

staggered new account permissions: wait 24h before commenting, wait 7 days before posting.

Why?

allow community users to flag posts or comments as NSFW.

This one I like.

Voting changes from up, down to up, down or NSFW.

That’s not how it should be done though. The same menu that you pull out that lets you report things to a mod, instead of reporting to mod, it should let you report as NSFW. If a mod approves the request, it then becomes labeled as NSFW.

I’m also a big tech guy

Well you’ll be happy to know that we don’t body shame here.

We will however relentlessly mock you if you use Windows 11.

Look man…I hate AI too…but you can’t just use it as a scapegoat to cover for humans being humans.

Should the AI be telling him to do more and more drugs until he died? Well, no, but also…maybe don’t do dangerous drugs at all.

Like if chatgpt says to shoot yourself in the face, and you do, is it chatgpt’s fault you killed yourself? Or was it you killing yourself at fault for killing you?

This world is getting dumber and dumber.

I signed up for friendica, after 2 decades of having never used facebook.

It’s blank, and I don’t know what I’m supposed to do.

I can’t comment on what the facebook experience is, but I imagine they don’t just dump you onto a blank white page, with zero explaination.

Note that I am NOT defending or endorsing facebook. I’m just saying the decentralized services have work to do before they can fully be reccomended.

I also recently signed up for pixelfed. It took 3 days to login the first time. And I’m still not sure what the point of collections is. But I did upload 4 pictures.

I don’t use twitter, but the reason people still do is the same reason people still use reddit.

It’s where the people are. Normally this is the part where I use some big exaggerated example of what COULD be happening on twitter and they’d still use it. However, saying “They would still use use it if it catered to pedophiles and nazis” is not only true, because they are, but it’s also the most exaggerated example I can think of.

No matter what twitter does, people will still use them, BECAUSE people use them. Twitter has something like 375million people, while Mastadon has varying reported numbers, but I’m seeing 7million, 10million or 12million depending on who’s talking. That’s still a far cry from 375million.

The hard part is figuring out how many of those 375million are bots.

I agree, Go Guards!

Because you’re already dead on the inside?

Maculley Maculley Culkin Culkin.

Now pronounce GIF. The RIGHT way…

I pirate software, but at least I don’t rape children.

Hey! Whoa! That’s uncalled for!!!

…being a human dildo sounds quite fun!

Orrrrr…pick a non-active community. Or both. And start posting in your local community. By that, I mean I live in Cleveland. There are 3 Cleveland communities. All dead. I’m the only one posting in one. I still get replies and upvotes. So people are there. They just all lurk until I post.

Do that. And post in a dead community. And post in an active community. We need activity basically everywhere besides tech/politics/news.

I agree with everything that you’ve said. I would also add:

Find your nearest non-political non-tech hobby community and start posting things people actually want to see

Because if we’re going to cast the same net reddit does, people with a more varied set of interests need to come here. Can’t be all linux, politics, and news. We’re going to need people who like baking. We’re going to need sports fans. We’re going to need music.

I could type new communities we need to be active all day. Humans are surprisingly a diverse set of creatures. You have one set of interests, I have another. Different set of interests. And both are totally valid.

The thing people here don’t seem to grasp is that OTHER interests and OTHER people using the fediverse isn’t a bad thing. If a bunch of boomers come here, and make their own communities to talk about Taylor Swift, and whatever else they talk about on facebook. That’s good that it would be here! Not bad!

They could talk about gardening, and model trains, and whatever else. It wouldn’t appeal to you, and thats ok.

votes for MynameisAllen for president

Now if only we knew their name…

Dumbtv

I smoked weed when it was illegal. I’ll speak freely when it’s illegal.

And one day I’ll shit on Art Modell’s grave. That’s not really relevant to AI, but I’m still gonna do it.

NEVER!!!

Is EpicGames involved with Roblox? Because as far as minors go, I hear THAT game is a dumpster fire with zero redeemable qualities.

Ha ha ha. Did they really do another commercial with the same concept, but in court?

I believe you. I just never saw it. That’s wild though…

…yeah. Thats what I said.