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Welcome Thread: !bestoflemmy@lemmy.world

Rewrite: September 2024

Welcome one and all to BestOfLemmy! The goal of this community is "manual curation". Please post good (or best!!) posts you find around Lemmy, highlighting the discussions, communities, and people that make up the Lemmyverse.

There are two rules: Manual Curation and beginner-to-lemmy focus. Please share content on Lemmy that helps introduce Lemmy to newbies!

Don't make automatic bots or algorithms make your pick here. Although its fair game to use bots / algorithms / search engines to look for content, the ultimate decision to post must be made by you. Aside from that, have fun!

EDIT: Discussion in this Welcome Thread is extremely loose. Its important for any community to have a place for freeform discussion, including meta-criticism and wandering off topic, so that individuals are free to express yourself. I won't be moderating this topic as much as other posts however. Still feel free to report posts that cross the line, but comments here specifically are intended to be more freeform.

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  • Regarding the recent locked post: as the creator it is indeed your vision that you need to maintain. I do hope that you will consider editing the description of this community to clarify such for people in the future:

    Manual curation of great Lemmy discussions and threads

    Otherwise it made sense that it would fit? Perhaps... "please, no drama" or some such? Well, it's a thought:-).

    Second:

    if YOU think a post is worth sharing, that’s good enough

    But if actual posts are not desired, only comments underneath those, that would help to clarify as well. Otherwise "discussion" can be ambiguous.

    I hope this meta-discussion itself is of interest:-).

    • Perhaps the rule is that I'd like this place to be a good "Frontpage" for Lemmy posts. A "Beginner-to-Lemmy" kind of curation / discussion hub. By the time we're on community-on-community or server-vs-server discussion, we've left the realm of beginner topics / introduction to Lemmy kind of things.

      Its not the "drama" I'm necessarily against. Its more like, "my vision for this community means that discussions about the peculiars of servers or community comments is unhelpful here".

      I recognize the need to discuss different servers and communities. But "BestOfLemmy" should be beginner-to-lemmy focused. I don't think new posters would necessarily have much benefit from that kind of comment.

      • Sounds reasonable

      • I don't feel it's my place to push back on the matter of the locking of the specific post - as we covered, it's your vision that you need to implement.

        But since you seem interested in the wider topic in general, I will say that warning people about the variety of ah... "behaviors" that one is likely to encounter across the Fediverse is precisely what I think is most lacking from most instances (at least those that haven't defederated from the most extremist ones, which e.g. my first instance Kbin had, but it is defunct now and anyway it was definitely in the minority there - e.g. across the entire Fediverse the only instance that I've ever seen that has defederated Lemmy.ml is Lemmy.cafe, which I only found about about today:-).

        Every single person that I've told about Lemmy irl has come back in the next conversation to say "do you realize the extremist content (advocating for violent overthrow of the government) that is on there?" The thing is, having blocked it myself, I do tend to forget... for me Lemmy is about interesting conversations, fun memes, e.g. about computer coding, etc. But advocation for violence is not something so easily pushed aside, by someone new who doesn't know how to block yet (and what even would they block - a community? a user? an entire instance? being new, they simply do not understand yet what is likely to work, and what each decision entails. what they want to block is "disturbing content", but there is no checkbox for that, and seeing how untruthful so many people are, likely to never be one)

        Communities like Chapotraphouse or The Donald or even so many posts in memes@lemmy.ml, which depict e.g. actual decapitation of landlords, is not something that "normal", "mainstream" people in the Western world are wanting to see. e.g. people leaving Twitter/X bc Musk is too extreme and Mastodon too problematic, only to find that generally speaking, Lemmy contains even more extremist content, though on what is claimed to be the leftist side.

        So kudos for wanting to carve out an island of sanity. It remains to be seen how people, especially new ones, will find it, amidst all the noise, but still it's a laudable goal. And then I still don't get why new people wouldn't be interested in individual instances - I would be - but that's your business.:-P

        I do think it would help to clarify the description of the community though, to make the aims more clear as the Fediverse grows, rather than you having to explain yourself to each poster, after-the-fact. Anyway I wanted to offer that thought - thanks for listening:-).

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