AceTKen

AceTKen, 2 months ago

I have about 200 of them saved that are my favorites and have been going through them when I find something that is related in my mind. I generally put them on the weekly threads to try and bump up engagement a little bit as it’s something more than just text, and it’s something that I love as well.

I think you’re the first one to comment on it. It is appreciated!

AceTKen, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

• Better ways for Communities to surface themselves. Starting with such a small community, it’s hard to get more people unless they come in from browsing the equivalent of /All. I’ve also been active in promoting this Community to people who seem to want to discuss things on other threads and were frustrated by the same things I was, but we’re still pretty small.
• More controls (and decoration) available to the Community itself. It’d help us out a lot if we could disable downvotes, for instance. As it stands, we can’t discuss any remotely controversial topic without no-comment downvotes from random people burying threads. That means that if the first few people don’t like the topic or my initial outlay of it, they kill any hope of anyone seeing the thread. On a platform with scads of various activists, this means that this happens often.
• Better moderation tools. For instance, we can’t properly remove deleted content, and it’s all mostly visible still on mobile clients. Hell, we’ve seen deleted rule-breaking comments continue to accrue upvotes somehow.
• Ways to pre-emptively surface sub rules to mobile users who never see the sidebar (especially if they are breaking them). Lemmy seems to think that people browse communities, but they do no such thing. The Community is popped into a feed, and people see a topic, but most never even look at the Community itself.
• Stopping bad users. Things like… there need to be ways to stop a user from going into user history of others and downvoting every single thing they’ve ever written because they didn’t like a take they had. We also need ways to appeal bans and stop brigading.
• We’ve had threads reported for using terminology a user didn’t like. The threads then vanished. We, the mods, were never notified that a large and actively debated thread was now gone and could do nothing about it.

AceTKen, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Well, you’re right. I probably won’t delete the Community, but I won’t engage either if my mind can’t be changed. Some discussions on here have been awesome, and it’d be a shame to wipe them out.

I wish there were a way to have to force users to have to opt into the shitty dopamine hit mode you mentioned instead of it being the default. It’s one of the main problems with modern social media and one of the reasons I feel that Forums were dramatically better.

AceTKen, 2 months ago

Yeah, I should have replied, but last week was one of the busiest weeks I’ve had. My apologies. The response was great and definitely deserved more people engaging with it.

I’m not American either, but the division seems to be a worldwide phenomenon. It’s definitely in Canada where I am and seems to be feeding off the American version.

AceTKen, 2 months ago

That’s… not a terrible idea. Do you know what that entails? Is there an easy way to move things, or is it just a matter of starting the new one up fresh?

AceTKen, 2 months ago

Hey, wake up! The new Clippy skin just dropped!

AceTKen, 2 months ago

Boy do I have a treat for you.

AceTKen, 2 months ago

Nick is a goddamn treasure and I will fight anyone who thinks different.

AceTKen, 2 months ago

That’s called being a centrist or an independent. Lemmy hates those.

AceTKen, 2 months ago

I do. It’s not enough.

No-discussion downvoters are a massive problem here moreso than any other site I’ve ever used.

AceTKen, 2 months ago

Well, this was a massive failure that we won’t be repeating.

AceTKen, 3 months ago

Please also disallow Congress from trading in the US stock market with their inside information.

One small adjustment and it’s perfect!

AceTKen, 2 months ago

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AceTKen, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

I ran Mandrake Linux in roughly 2003 or so, but went back to Windows because games didn’t work.

Ever since Windows 11 has come around I thought it was a good idea to possibly attempt to move to Linux again. I’m strongly leaning towards Mint because it’s fairly Linux beginner friendly from what I hear.

I run an IT firm and we have recently been putting together an open-source stack.

The problem is that we use a lot of Microsoft software on the back end and some of that can’t be replaced.

The other issue is that while gaming has come a long way, a good chunk of my 5,000 games still don’t run on Linux. Newer ones tend to be glitchy for a great deal of time before they function perfectly. Also I happen to currently have an Nvidia card which I have heard is a problem.

If anyone has any recommendations, I would love to hear them! From servers, to productivity, to gaming I am open to whatever you guys would recommend.

AceTKen, 3 months ago

Interesting to see a non-positive take! I always appreciate your write-ups.

I too wish there was more unification with certain elements. I can only imagine what they could do if they combined development resources into a few channels instead of being scattered to the winds. Maybe add an overall design aesthetic (while maintaining the means to change it) instead of just “it works I suppose.”

AceTKen, 3 months ago

Oh man… you’re basically speaking directly to why I made our small community (consider this a personal invite). As I said elsewhere, I find Lemmy actively hostile.

The number of indignant replies and comment-free downvotes we get inundated with continually is… disheartening.

People want content, but actively detract from any content that doesn’t explicitly cater to them. It’s hard to take.

AceTKen, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Literally nobody in the public voted for her in the first term at least.

Edit: WTF, Lemmy. I’m factually correct. Look at her Wikipedia page if you don’t believe me.

She was appointed when Jason Kenney resigned. She won in the second term, not the first term. In the first term, the public was not given a chance to vote for her or not.

AceTKen, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Nope. Originally her party was elected when somebody else was at the helm, and then when Jason Kenney retired, she was just kind of put there.

Literally no one in the public voted for her originally.

I’m in Alberta but I vote NDP.

Before he left, Kenney was actually warning that the crazies were trying to take over. Hell, we thought Kenney was crazy. Turns out he was right about this one thing.

AceTKen, 3 months ago

I can scale without issue most times and have done so multiple times during acquisitions.

Once we hit a certain number of people, I’d make the Matrix org system a little more fleshed-out. Right now our projects are from 1-10 people, but it wouldn’t be hard to add an org-wide Scheduler role that can wrangle interested groups for projects. It’s all about putting a plan into place before you make a decision, not deciding and then trying to FORCE things to fit. With Microsoft, I imagine they’d have to implement larger teams of relevant staff on each project and divide them into overall pods with the Scheduler able to change who is needed in each pod. It’s doable, but without having been anywhere near that large, I’d have to see what was implemented along the way.

Also of interest, we don’t have an issue with The Peter Principle as you’re never forced to move out of a position of competence or interest. You’re not salary limited simply because you don’t want to be a manager; in fact, there are no managers.