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This looks pretty good so far, and I'm glad to be here and pseudo-anonymous!
Absolute newbie here so bare with me: I'm seeing a couple features I'm used to from reddit that aren't present. Where do we go to learn more about Lemmy? Is there anywhere to put feature requests? Mods available to be added? My old experience with stuff like this was back in the Invision Power Board and phpBB days.
I see threaded replies can't get collapsed in this thread - that was useful for browsing. on reddit.
Also no downvoting of comments, just an upvote button?
You might want to check out !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml for asking questions, and !lemmy@lemmy.ml for reporting bugs and requesting features :)
Not sure what you're asking here? About creating communities (subreddit equivalent) and adding mods for them, see my comment here: https://lemmy.one/comment/536
You can collapse comments, it's just not really intuitive, click this button:
No downvoting on lemmy.one:
I may consider changing this in the future.
If you have more questions about this instance, lemmy.one, generally, you can also ask at !meta.
How does voting work across federated instances? I appear to have both up and down vote buttons, since I'm viewing from another instance, do they not actually work? Otherwise, what prevents trolls from other instances from brigading a thread?
Downvotes just don't work inside communities hosted on lemmy.one. They might work on your own local midwest.social instance, I'm not sure, but if you downvoted my comment here nobody would be able to tell on lemmy.one, and nobody would be able to tell on other federated instances like lemmy.ml or beehaw.org, because lemmy.one simply would not federate that information to them.
Do you think disabling downvoting will work? While it does encourage people to just downvote things that are already downvoted, the alternative is that you have no way to mark bad/lazy/rude content that isn't actually worth reporting, and you end up in the Facebook-like situation of low-effort stuff filling the space. Hopefully this won't happen while the community is small, but that will probably change eventually!
Don't know! We'll evaluate it as we go, I don't have an issue with enabling them if it's clear that not having them is problematic, but I also don't think people need a negative indicator to know not to engage with low-quality content.
Do you know if it's possible to hide all upvote/downvote scores on comments? I've often wondered if that would kerb the "groupthink" as people wouldn't be pre-influenced by the number, but it would still allow sorting by popular and filtering-out of mass-downvoted comments.
It's not a configurable option. Maybe with a custom interface change, but I'm not convinced that making changes to Lemmy.one that remote users don't experience is the best move.
Awesome dude, thank you. This was very helpful. I was curious if we could deploy mods and stuff into communities but perhaps I'll spin up my own instance and give it a go to learn more about it.
Edit: By mods, I mean similar to some of the modificationss I deployed to old forums back in the day when I was an Admin. Guess it probably doesn't work like that here.
Oh, modifications. Yeah, no way to do anything like that as far as I know, to preserve consistency across different instances.