In my opinion.

It’s fine, but it’s too common in online communities (including Lemmy) and it discourages people from posting their original thoughts or events that they find important and relevant, since something needs to come from a ‘real news source’ or an ‘online article’.

I can make a website right now and call it “The Daily Pragmatist” or some shit and people won’t bat an eye.

Reality also is that many reach conclusions based on titles alone anyhow. I can’t see how it would be worse, since the body of the post is always going to be a tad more accessible than opening a new website. And we see how little people want to work to gather their knowledge, on the whole.

I get removing crappy content, but what about when thoughts are backed up with sources and opinions are relevant to overall discussion?

And separately, what’s up with aversion to ‘non-standard’ forms of expression? I would argue that something like the show ‘The Rehearsal’ by Nathan Fielder, is an equally valid way to deliver real and important news to people. I wouldn’t be alone in this sentiment.

Imo this shit is busted and dumb.

Edit: for those that agree in part or in whole, if you have the bandwidth for it, consider making your own community! Lemmy is still relatively small and your local instance might be even more so. It’s not impossible to get a community going, and if it fails - oh well!

  • kalman@dboft.com
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    16 hours ago

    I started my own server to get out of reddit. I didn’t like the feed and felt like it was being dishonest with me, so I came to this protocol and set up a server with a feed I control… work in progress TBH. We exploit the algorithms for small hits of dopamine and pick me ups … but its not a very evolved state of being.

    What you’re asking for, I think, is to use these systems for something other than a feed. You want a community…connection… I appreciate you pointing that out… I do want the community. It also feels like maybe more than what people want to give … so a small corner of your world makes sense. I see that it may be busted as you say… hrm. Or I’m busted? We’re busted?

    On the url requirement, those of us who control the ranking on our own instances … could look at ways to surface content that doesn’t have a link attached. If its already running with mass links… a bolt on mechanism to analyze posts for original thought, empathy, kindness, connection, …ick, maybe even run that through a decision model to bring those posts forward. I don’t know what that would do to the fediverse as a whole. Another simple option is channels or servers that don’t allow urls at all, just text…just talk.

    Thanks for getting the wheels turning on this.