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Do you have a touchscreen by chance? I've really been wanting to try this but my chromebook is a 2-in-1 and I love using it as a tablet.

I have and if I'm honest I'm probably a little bit too harsh. I think the bigger issue is honestly the priorities of the dev team. There's good reason that this project is focussing on moderation tooling.

Lemmy had 4 years of development to iron out bugs

Lemmy had 4 years to accrue technical debt and make foot-guns first-class features. A rewrite is probably exactly what it needs.

I'm not talking about the literal sorting algorithm. Pretty sure scaled sort is exactly one more operation than hot.

IMO slow development isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

Sure but even just recently there was the example of breaking federation over Christmas. Some of those issues persist through 0.19.3 which came out today

Similarly scaled sort would have made a huge difference for small communities in the period directly after the migration.

This sentiment is so overplayed and seems especially out of place in the context of the fediverse.

I think how quickly this project has gotten to near feature parity is a testament to how slow Lemmy development has been. Think about scaled sort (a feature that has been hotly requested since the migration) and how long that took to get merged in. A sort should not by any means be slow to implement.

Honestly this doesn't really seem like a project targeting users (at least not at this stage). This seems like something an admin would be more interested in

I know the detrimental effects of anxiety are well documented, but surely some of this must be due to a portion of the population ACTUALLY having undiagnosed illnesses.

Could be the federation bug between 0.18.5 and later versions. I was having trouble accessing from lemmy.world

Bad news, the zoomers been in grad school

There are a couple of principles to ensure an activity drive like this is successful:

• You need a significant number of contributors acting under agreed upon guidelines. The contributors will give you reach and the guidelines prevent singular actors from ruining momentum by taking counter productive actions with good intentions.
• You need lead-up time to gather contributors and establish guidelines. In this case you would probably want some Reddit mods sympathetic to your cause so that it doesn't sound like the initiative is from a purely external group.
• You need to leverage bandwagon effects. In this case those Reddit mods are critical to giving the impression that there is already momentum in this direction.
• You need a well formatted landing page to establish initial impressions. A lot of folks will click on exactly one link before giving up on an effort. You need to make that link count.

I'm working on compiling guides and establishing a community to organize initiatives like this over at !digitalcommunitybuilding@slrpnk.net. The project is in very early stages but the hope is to ensure your digital activism is actually effective.

All that said I would strongly recommend against this approach unless you can make a BIG push and that takes time to organize and a lot of one-on-one conversation.