Holup, I think triple pizza might be the big brain solution because you get a pizza that is always tasty, always available cheaply, and never makes you fat or burns your mouth
Can we get a ruling on whether Beer counts as a food item?
otherwise I'll go with:
"Moderators should moderate their communities for quality" is a valid solution to the problem you outlined, and a valid line of discussion even if you disagree.
I consider instance level and user level image tools as secondary to good community moderation, for things that the mods miss, and I only follow communities that seem well run.
Depends on the sub, the cooking subs are image based, but tend to have titles like:
"Homemade jumbo crumpet with baked strawberries topped with mascarpone" https://media.piefed.social/posts/R9/I8/R9I8hg1C1D7qWrO.jpeg
which is enough for me to decide whether to click (I clicked this one). It ruins subs that already have poor accessibility, due to non-descriptive titles and missing alt text. Which is fine.
There's a good chance of upsetting everybody here :)
Do you go with, the instance setting, the community setting, the user instance preference, the Blorp default or the user app setting.
I have actually implemented this on my personal instance, I don't know exactly how this will look on lemmy, but you can see what I've done here:
https://scrapetacular.ydns.eu/latest
What do you think of it? A post of the type that JohnnyEnzyme describes would look like a text post, with an image url in the list of links at the top.
I have also replaced inline images in comments with a link plus the alt text.
If you browse the fediverse with inline images disabled, you will be unaffected by the addition of an image to a post.
It's a personal project, and a single user instance, so I can view the data however I want, here's what the front page looks like with all inline images changed to links.
https://scrapetacular.ydns.eu/latest
I also ignore upvotes and downvotes on my instance as I don't think they're a good measure of quality.
The instance owner can change what is shown by default in the web UI for their users, but I think a lot of people use apps like Blorp, which will not be affected by this.
The defaults can make a difference. I implemented this feature on my personal instance, and now that image posts are hidden by default, I no longer interact with them consciously or subconsciously. The most engaging looking things on my front page are high effort posts that promote discussion like the OP. A LOT of people don't change defaults, so it might change what gets engagement if Lemmy does it.
I also implemented this for comments, so if you drop a pepe.jpg as a response, you'll have to use some words to get me to click on it.
We might be better off if they don't take an interest in us, or if they deem us "not social media".
Hi and thanks, the third one might be an issue for my personal use, I've followed some ActivityPub Groups for Mastodon that give me some kind of hashtag feed not associated with a community (FediGroups maybe), but I guess Blorp users simply won't do this so it'll be fine. I'll look into this again soon 👍
It's the forgejo link to my fediverse project, forgejo is something like github if you're familiar with github, a place for software developers to view and collaborate on software projects.
The project is only useful to developers in it's current state. You would need to download the project files, compile it into a binary, and possibly run it on a server to use the web UI. I currently don't have any instructions for this, but I'll make a longer post in the fediverse or selfhosted channel when I do.
Also, I'm targeting Sync for Lemmy instead of Blorp for the API.
Here is the initial announcement of the project and feature roadmap:
https://scrapetacular.ydns.eu/post/10170
This link is a post on my personal instance and shows the current UI.
