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Hi !

Welcome to our monthly thread ! I hope you are well :)

Here we will talk about feature, ui, concept accross the web and app as :

  • voting for a new mods team
  • nomadic identity
  • collaborative writting with color
  • a beautiful ui, Swiping gesture…
  • accessibility idea…
  • a personal project ?

Well, i hope we will find something fun to discuss and share. :)

  • seathru@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I really think Threads’ recently introduced feature that lets you filter or approve replies to your posts is far past due on social media.

    If I make a post on a specific subject, I should be able to block/unallow posts that aren’t relevant or might derail the topic, without relying on moderators. It’s my post, I should be able to curate it.

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    • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      I can see why it might be appealing in a microblogging context. There it’s all about the individual and their little kingdom and having ‘followers’. I think what would happen in practice is Threads’ moderators step back and do less moderating and that will let abuse run unchecked more often. But that’s their problem, whatever.

      On Lemmy/PieFed they’re not only your posts. You’re the person who started the discussion (in the community which we all built together) and the people who posted in the discussion are all co-creators of it. In this context one of the worst people to moderate a thread is the person who started it. They have the least objectivity and are the most likely to try to distort the direction the discussion goes in.

    • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I don’t think that’s a fair thing to add on a Reddit-like site. You’re posting to a community stewarded by other people. It means people could post highly controversial and objectionable opinions and then just pre-emptively de-facto lock the thread, preventing others from engaging with it. It sort of has the same consequences as the block function on Reddit has now where you can just block the other account replying to you to force the last word.

      Now in the event that Lemmy/Piefed incorporates profile posting, self-posting, then absolutely - that sort of screening makes sense.