Vice Admiral Finnegan Reginald Nimoy Kirkpatrick's corgi stumpers are quite short so when he naps on one side, he often has his upper stumper hanging in mid-air, or in rear stumper cases: the lower stumper is held aloft (fig 1).
However today he's demonstrating new stumper securing methods, in which his upper stumper has been hooked around his lower stumper (fig 2). It's some pretty cute sleepy stumpage stowing, you might wanna see.
A lot of us come from reddit, so we're naturally inclined to want a reddit-like platform. However, it occurred to me that the reddit format makes little sense for the fediverse....
I've been brainstorming things like this, too, and have come up with some similar thoughts. I think we can have both tags and communities. Suppose there's a trust model. A community on an instance will entrust certain members to whitelist posts that are in an approved list of tags. Anything on any instance that gets tagged with one of the approved tags would go into a queue. You could employ a bot to work the queue to eliminate low hanging fruit, and then trusted community members would work it to approve posts.
Likewise, an instance community could have a trust relationship with a community on a different instance. They could say, "Any posts approved by the cats community over there are automatically approved here." This could help distribute the load on the queue. As a side note, there would need to be logging of metadata so an audit trail could be analyzed in case problems arose in the trust circle.
So, that addresses a way to handle submissions. There's another ball of wax with comments. Ideally, a comment section would be a way for users to discover new communities. You might be reading comments on a #cat submission and see a comment from someone in #toebeans and go, "Oh hey, that looks interesting," and you can jump to the community and/or subscribe to it. It's not immediately obvious to me how an app could aggregate comments across multiple communities or if ActivityPub could facilitate it. Seems plausible.
I really hope we eventually get a richer platform out of all this. It's a great opportunity for people to put their heads together and think of new improvements.
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[Discussion] I don't think this format makes a lot of sense for the fediverse
A lot of us come from reddit, so we're naturally inclined to want a reddit-like platform. However, it occurred to me that the reddit format makes little sense for the fediverse....