Since a lot of folks sort by “all” on Lemmy, popular posts get overwhelmed by people who don’t daily drive operating systems like iOS or MacOS.
I like outside perspectives and all, but when the majority of the “community” discussion is coming from people who aren’t even using these products, it is pretty hard to have informed conversations.
Moreover, I feel like this type of engagement creates a lot of threads that get pretty combative and catty. They’re often started by people who are trying to argue and convince iOS / MacOS users that they’ve picked the wrong side of the fence.
Anyone else feel me on this? I imagine this is a problem for other communities on Lemmy as well.
You guys have my sympathy. I’m a pretty strong critic of Apple and their products but I’d never go out of my way to interfere with communities of Apple users. That’s just kinda pathetic.
Unfortunately, I don’t see that there’s much you can do about this apart from strictly moderate the comments section and just try to ignore the up/downvote discrepancies.
Yeah, I think the real solution would be to require a subscription, or a subscription for at least n amount of days before you can comment. Reddit used to have options for that.
Anyone can still join in, but it cuts down on the noise from c/all.
Unfortunately, Lemmy’s community and mod tools are truly terrible.
Yea, with the lack of mod tools here you don’t have that many options really.
IMHO, the big unseen problem with Lemmy is the lack of mod tools. Communities don’t have the basics to self govern. Reports don’t get seen and communities almost become a glorified topic hashtag, because everyone is always coming in from all, not subscriptions.