Skelectus

That’s some good improvements you have there. Great work, and thank you.

I’m in Europe. Been using Vultr, it’s good. Now looking at Hetzner for better prices and a server that’s actually in my country.

I’m sure they have their eyes peeled at a growing competitor, but is there anything weird or creepy about this?

The easiest to explain method:

• Copy the link https://sh.itjust.works/c/plugins
• Paste it to search box at lemmy.ml
• The search results open the foreign sub while staying in your own instance
• Subscribe

The other way:

Click this link to skip some of the steps above:
https://lemmy.ml/c/plugins@sh.itjust.works
Look how I made this link, you can do the same for other subs too.

My local newspaper attempted “well argumented” and “agree/disagree” scores years ago. Later they removed the “agree” score, and I recall some accusations of orwellian moderation, but I think this is a cool idea that deserves more experimentation.

I like the thought behind this idea but I don’t think it’s a good solution. It requires having a reputation score, which I think outweighs the positives here. I could also see people trying to play this system in a couple different ways, which is just plain bad for discussion culture: encourage others to downvote something without spending the reputation yourself, or collect downvotes with bait content in order to eat through other peoples reputation.

Could you link that? I don’t see an obvious benefit, but it sounds interesting.

Downvotes aren’t intended for the subject of the news, but for OP for making the post. If you hate the subject, I guess the correct action is to express it in the comments, or give an upvote if someone else already did.

A karma score encourages making poor quality meme posts and comments in large quantities to gain more fake internet points. It’s easily abused; Reddit is full of karma farming bots.

No downvotes was also mentioned here, but I heavily disagree. Downvotes, in my opinion are for a large part a positive thing. Youtube hiding downvotes was a move towards a “good vibes only, no criticism allowed” type of environment. Remember the reaction when Ubisoft promoted some stupid NFT bs there?

Downvotes allow users to express disapproval of content, even if it isn’t strictly against the rules of the particular community. I believe there’s a very clear intermediary between “good” content and something that’s so bad it has to be removed by moderators. Ignoring it or having it erased by mods are both worse solutions.

Lemmy pretty much meets my ideal in this regard, it has downvotes and doesn’t have a broken social credit system.

Edit: Expanded the comment quite a lot

This would be a cool app. Explore your hoods.

Social distancing is required

Gotta respect that.

It can’t mean temperature, mid sixties is almost a sauna!

Edit: Accidental post.