Unpopular Opinion

Cake day is cute

The official lemmy interfaces don't track those things.

IMO the issue is not copying cherry picked good features from Reddit, but to indiscriminately copy features because "since Reddit has it, Lemmy got to have it too", without paying attention if they actually benefit the Threadiverse.

Tldr I don't think this is an unpopular opinion.

Cake day?

I have no idea what day I first started using lemmy, or when I made an account. I'm okay not knowing.

As for "karma", do any instances track total karma, or just per-comment? Honestly I don't give a shit if my comments do well or not, I don't live for other people's amusement.

As for other people, I can't speak for them, but I haven't seen anyone crying for lemmy to be more like reddit.

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I didn’t think karma existed on Lemmy? Or maybe it was removed in ann update?

Not sure if I should downvote this popular opinion in the unpopular opinion sub or upvote it, for more people to see this wholesome take.

how do we reward original content?

How would Lemmy reward original content?

I literally do not and have never cared about votes or awards.

Let's get rid of cake day but there is already no karma on Lemmy meaning no general upvote count. It will be much harder to find anything if we get rid of a voting system and the one we have is probably the most transparent and easy-to-understand one 2 opposite force and to possibility to choose neighter.

Strongly agreed.

I'm reminded of the scene in Groundhog Day in which they have that one day that just unfolds naturally and is so wonderful, and then the next time through, the Bill Murray character tries to duplicate it, and it's just awful and cringey.

Lemmy, given the chance, will (continue to) develop its own norms and memes and traditions, and be that much better for it. Just trying to duplicate Reddit here is not only doomed to failure, but cringey.

I think it's important for developers to stay active within the community and try to understand how the community uses the tools available and what additions or changes are desired or would be beneficial. Obviously people disagree about what those things are at times, but I think with patience and empathy we can iterate ideas and get to better places.

I see people posting more and more news on Lemmy and I enjoy that, but it does make the need for tools that fight disinformation. Maybe that's the source-checker bot (feels like a stopgap to me) or maybe that's a combination of new ui and api features that draw from Twitter's community fact-checking and how some instances are use bias-checkers.

Moderation tools are always in need of improvement too.

Hey I even think silly shit like emoji reactions and awards have a place for people that prefer less verbal forms of interaction but still want nuance or whimsy.

The only thing I miss here are active niche communities. Other than that, it's so much better than Spez's data vacuuming service.

I would like some geographic filtering, or at least sorting, do I can see local stuff before all the USA election posts.

Did Reddit invent cake days? I thought that was a Digg thing.

I think it would be cool if you couldn't see the upvote/downvote score until you voted

The only thing that would even make sense to bring imo is a leveling system of sorts, straight from the forums of old.

Is there a place where you can see your useless internet points on lemmy. They are only needed to show the general opinion of the thread. It a superior system to reddits bot fueled lies.