Thread bumping would help a lot actually!
Comment on Is there any way to reverse degrowth of the niche communities on Lemmy?
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
I really just think the reddit/lemmy structure isn’t very suited to small communities.
For small communities we should have a platform structured like a traditional web forum with flat threads and thread bumping. This causes people to get endless streams of discussion even with relatively few users.
MelonYellow@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Yes. In my teenage years, these kinds of web forums were the norm, now they are almost as outdated as Usenet or mailing lists. I think that is a shame because I found web forums utterly addictive while on reddit and lemmy I tend to quickly run out of things to read.
Xylight@lemdro.id 7 months ago
“new comments” sort is basically that.
Agent641@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Tags would be good. Rather than crossposting, tag your post in up to 5 communities. A photo of a bird might be tagged in Nature Photography, Birds, Animals, and horses.
If a the moderator of c/horses decides the submission is not apropriate, they can un-tag themselves. If all communities un-tag themselves, the submission is ‘orphaned’ its no longer visible in any C, but still exists in the OPs profile.
The user cannot re-tag c/horses, but can add a new tag if they want. If our man keeps tagging birds as horses, then they might be banned from submitting to the horse tag for a period.
This allows one post to be visible over many communities without crossposting, reposting, or having related overheads of duplication.
If the user does not want to be harrased by ornithologists arguing over whether they think its a western red breasted great titwarbler or a northern red breasted lesser titwarbler, they may also untag their submission from c/birds
governorkeagan@lemdro.id 7 months ago
I really like that idea!