(I haven’t submitted an official rfc yet, want to see what people think)
This is inspired by Ruqqus, a now defunct Reddit alternative.
The idea is simple:
- There is a “global” or “default” community with no topic or extra rules,
moderated only by admins - Community moderators, when they feel a post is inappropriate for their community can “kick” a post to the global community
The reasoning is as follows: a good amount, probably the majority of posts that are removed by mods, are not removed because they are inappropriate for the site as a whole, but because they are inappropriate for that specific community (off-topic, banned site, low effort, etc.). But currently the only option they have to deal with this is a full blown removal, which is quite frustrating for the poster.
This proposal would allow mods to keep curated communities without needing to do unnecessary removals.
As a bonus, this would create a default community where people can post when they’re not sure where to post something. Posts can be later be crossposted into more specific communities.
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While I can see the appeal, it would probably need what amounts to a different system, I.e. not Lemmy.
I’m no expert on how lemmy is implemented, but I don’t see why not. Would probably just involve a post removal + a post creation, with some scaffolding code to handle the uglier details
Maybe several “global” like one for good pists that doesn’t belong on a specific sub, one for low effort memes,one for NSFW etc.
Maybe a NSFW one, but beyond that I feel like it would defeat the point
I thing there’s something here. I don’t think that this is the solution though.
What I think is good:
- A default place for posts
- A way to remove posts from a community without nuking the user’s post
- Possibilities of cross posting and for de-duping efforts
What I think is bad:
- A default community managed by admins (unscalable)
- seems like a huge deviation from the current activity pub spec (which is kinda terrible ngl)
- will need a very specific adapter to keep compatibility with other existing activity pub front ends.
We could certainly have mods for this default community too, that’s not crucial to the idea.
Could you expand in where this conflicts with activitypub? I thought AP was too general to care about something like this
