ElTacoEsMiPastor

Thanks! Tired of removing the tracking “?si=” parameter from YT links

ETA: Fun clip, nonetheless. “Smoothness over clarity”, huh.

Interesting are all the points you share. I’ve never been so convinced to try a game even after being explicitly told it’ll not be fun. Give me that sweet pain.

thanks, bot. i wouldn’t know otherwise that this post on c/selfhosted is about #selfhosted

This is basically the P=NP problem! 🤔💀

Yeah, you can easily assess whether things are going ok at any moment, but it’s hard as fuck to know how to make things ok from scratch.

Exactly! That, and I can tweak my writing to see if it conveys what I want. I cannot just hit ctrl+z when I’m talking.

Most times I feel I’m having these galaxy-brain thoughts but they come across as pea-brain sentences when trying to articulate them (how long is long enough for a rant/explanation?). Going meta has also not gone well for me. By that I mean discussing about how we’re discussing the topic at hand. It seems to be shrugged off as a tangent or distraction, when I believe it’s a good baseline for the current and future conversations I might have with the person.

Discourse online is better suited for the exchanges I like to have with others (such as the folks on this very thread), because arguments can be better fleshed out and people are less afraid to share their rationale. Ideas and perspectives can clash, but it’s not necessarily bad. Just like peer review in science papers.

Exactly! Now I’m sad/disappointed the threads will be drowned with commands.

Yes, it’s neat to have these tools but it doesn’t actually provide anything to the discussion at hand.

On Liftoff it’s needed to be logged in on every instance (it handles multiple accounts), so I don’t find it convenient even though I admire how polished the interface is.

On Liftoff it’s needed to be logged in on every instance (it handles multiple accounts), so I don’t find it convenient even though I admire how polished the interface is.

No? The votes are for what contributes (or not) to a conversation, and deepens the dialogue.

That’s why it’s infuriating when someone is downvoted when they have an unpopular but well-structured opinion, while a one-liner joke gets a million upvotes.

What would be a good search engine alternative?

I made a post on the Liftoff community precisely because it renders it unusable if I cannot interact with (almost) anything that’s shown to me

Exactly! I have read discussions on how to implement here better upvote/downvote systems than reddit’s. While it may work, it will take time to experiment and evaluate different ratios (1:1, 5:1, or no downvotes, etc.)

Rather than changing the weights of each, classifying posts is a cleaner way to manage and orient a meaningful discussion from the get-go.

ETA: As tags seem to not be a thing in the near future, what would be relevant classifiers for the community? Based on your comment and the activity I’ve seen here, these would make the cut: Vent, Help, Meme, Discussion, and Infodump