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Hi !

Welcome to our monthly thread ! I hope you are well :)

Here we will talk about feature, ui, concept accross the web and app as :

  • voting for a new mods team
  • nomadic identity
  • collaborative writting with color
  • a beautiful ui, Swiping gesture…
  • accessibility idea…
  • a personal project ?

Well, i hope we will find something fun to discuss and share. :)

  • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
    8·
    12 days ago

    I can see why it might be appealing in a microblogging context. There it’s all about the individual and their little kingdom and having ‘followers’. I think what would happen in practice is Threads’ moderators step back and do less moderating and that will let abuse run unchecked more often. But that’s their problem, whatever.

    On Lemmy/PieFed they’re not only your posts. You’re the person who started the discussion (in the community which we all built together) and the people who posted in the discussion are all co-creators of it. In this context one of the worst people to moderate a thread is the person who started it. They have the least objectivity and are the most likely to try to distort the direction the discussion goes in.

    • Libb@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      12 days ago

      100% this.

      It’s also the reason why I would love for the OP to not be able to delete their original post and delete the entire thread with it. It should be ok for them to delete the content in their post if they really want to, but said post should remain accessible with a ‘content deleted by OP’ mention or something like that… while all comments remain untouched.

      As someone that seldom posts new content but do like to comment it’s one of the things that is certainly preventing me to comment more on certain discussions, as it already happened too often to see everything vanish because the OP was not happy with the way the discussion turned.

      They should not own the discussion even when they initiate it. That’s what an open discussion should be about: inviting participation, not censoring it.

      edit: typos and clarifications.