Tips fedora*
Tips fedora*
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Hexbear please I'm begging you just one day without bottom trawling the world wide web to share the most disgusting losers the internet has to offer
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you're in the comm for the sludge at the bottom of the barrel. open wide and drink up.
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This is water and this is the well. Drink full and descend.
- Drink the water of life. Convert its poison so that you may see through time and space.
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You know how we split the dunk tank into gossip and
counterpropagandaslop? What if we split off some of slop's content into a new comm called sludge?-
What are we, fucking Trots?
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Yeah but if you block the com like half the site dissapears. Sometimes there is funny shit in here, but finding obscure guys to dunk on / get mad at just kinda sucks imo. I know this battle has already been lost and it's a key part of the site culture, but it always just feels like the smug online version of a fox news grandpa turning on the TV every night to yell at the blue hairs
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Half the site should not be posted into the slop comm. People are posting things into the comm which don't belong in this comm. Report posts in the slop comm which aren't slop. The sidebar says that this comm is for "anonymous reactionary bullshit". If it's a public figure such as a celebrity or politician then it's not slop. Slop is when a non-famous person says or does something which is ignorant, problematic, or bigoted.
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thanks for this, I wasn't clear on what goes where and this helps
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https://hexbear.net/comment/5630534 This is what CARCOSA said when the comms were launched
Where am I supposed to post...?
Slop is for what the old dredge_tank was like. Roast anonymous reactionaries to your heart's content!
Gossip for an informal discussion regarding people with power / notable / tools of power
Counterprop for a formalized discussion regarding reactionary people no matter how powerful/notable.
My interpretation is that slop is for bad things said or done by nonfamous people, gossip is for bad things said by a famous person such as a celebrity or politician. If a government enacts a reactionary policy or law, I put that in news. When a government does anything, it's news comm, because it's material action that impacts people's lives. If a politician does something reactionary, it could be news or could be gossip or even politics comm, depending on the material impact of the action or thing said.
My philosophy is that the comm should be chosen by the amount of material impact behind the subject. It annoys me a lot when an impactful news story gets posted in the slop comm.
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What makes this difficult is a few things in my experience.
- Comms are silos with no real intersectionality. Cross posting doesn't really do the trick because it creates a whole new post with a new score.
- Lemmy lacks a tagging system to allow for posts to be delineated within a comm.
- 1 + 2 incentivizes more comms to offer delineation, at the expense of subscriber fatigue. Too many comms to brows and pick from, leading to low traction in most comms outside of large broad stroke comms like News.
- You cannot move a post from one comm to another.
Ideally, you would create as few comms as needed covering the broadest strokes possible, and delineate them with tags, creating a hierarchy of comms and tags.
News could embody all types of content, for example.
News > Sports News > Politics News > USA > Politics Writing > Fake News Writing > World Building Gaming > Table Top Gaming > Video Game Theory > Marxism Theory > Anarchism Praxis > Unions Praxis > Mutual Aid Praxis > Direct Action General > Slop General > Gossip
Posts should be allowed to have any number of tags, and honestly, I don't see why there should be much difference between a tag and a comm... There should be tags that are site wide, like NSFW, which would be a tag that is configured to blur its contents, or marked as a "content warning" tag.
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Honestly I would love this. Replace comms with tags (which side note: should work with mastodon tags), posts can be in as many tags as possible, and those tags should be editable after posting, including my moderators.
I think the main issue would be that currently moderators are per-comnunity, and having moderators per-tag just feels weird.
Additionally, the blurring of content could be done like bluesky labelers, where you can specify that certain tags should make content fully hidden, blurred, or fully visible.
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Yeah, the only big issue with replacing Comms with Tags is that Communities can be extremely tailored to a very specific niche thanks to the silo effect and having attached mods. This only works when the network effect is powerful, like with Reddit, where you have millions of users, though. I don't see Tags really allowing for that level of community building ultimately.
Simply adding Tags (global tags and local community tags) would go a long way in condensing the number of communities, which raises the level of engagement of communities.
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finding obscure guys to dunk on / get mad at
Literally why this comm exists
I know this battle has already been lost
So stop beating the dead horse then
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It's ok dawg just expressing an opinion it isn't personal and I'm not harshly judging anyone who desires the slop. Just something I've thought about and felt like sharing.
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That's fine, but we really don't need to go over this again
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We really do need to go over how fucked up it is to go searching for ragebait.
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We really do not need to do that.
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At least most of the ragebait on the 'bear is basically labeled
anyways megas 4 life
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Laughing at someone even more pathetic than me is the only thing that gives my pathetic life joy
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