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  • Gamifying the editing of other people’s posts and editing semantics of content after-the-fact

    Yeahhhhhh no, I think you just suggested StackOverflow without taking even a look at the recent or not recent discussions on how it behaves (eg.: the moderator strike) or why.

    I think there are ways this could be kept in check, but basically you’d be providing an incentive towards just going around and adding tags for content nilly-willy, potentially leading to something very similar to SO’s “closed as duplicate” (duplicate is on a completely different language / software stack / problem domain) issue.









  • so I can only see a couple of ways to make a better “offering”

    (2.) mostly covers pretty much anyone one would want to do, offer-wise. It’s also the aspect that’s currently the most distinguishable across the instances marketplace. But the issue is, it’s one thing to say that you are going to offer a different defederation / moderation policy (“we’re going to allow piracy”, for example) and another thing is sticking to it (“, unless some legal threat”). If what you are saying is “I’m not gonna block piracy until it’s somehow inconvenient for me”, not only is that the same flat offering most of everyone else is making, but it’s also a nebulous offering because it tells a new user nothing useful and offers no commitments: When is that “inconvenient” gonna be? What is the measure for “inconvenient”? What’s gonna happen then? How will we know? (no, suddenly finding that the instance you had an account on now redirects to the FBI is not good enough).

    I’m open to suggestions/ideas if there is anything else that could be done to improve the “offering”.

    Add more qualifications to your offering, such as:

    • Are you going to close upon any legal threat, or only upon a certain degree or size of threat?
    • From the US only, or from any country?
    • Will you close instantly, or will you guarantee a Minimum Survivability Timeframe for eg.: helping users to migrate away, like Mastodon’s covenant does?

    but I have added multiple frontends(like lemmy.world).

    If you add the JS-less frontends, you, like others who are doing it, are doing Yahweh / Arceus / Allah / Amaterasu 's work.