Thank you for the response Tiff! Unfortunately I think you’re making a mistake in blanket-characterizing downvotes as “disagreement.” The practical reality of voting on a platform like this is that votes are functionally just feedback. And without the possibility of giving negative feedback, you’re making it so that any negative behaviors large or small (bad-faith argument tactics, spreading misinformation, negativity / debbie-downerism, inappropriateness, click-baiting, reaction-baiting, trolling, hyperbole, off-topicness, just plain rudeness) – can only get rewarded with upvotes and attention unless mods are constantly policing them to an extreme.

It doesn’t matter if negative behaviors get less upvotes and attention than good behaviors, because a) it’s usually lower effort and b) any net-positive outcome still reinforces it. Having to report to try to combat it raises the threshold of toxicity needed before most people are willing to “tattle” or “complain”, and puts all of the burden on moderators to review every individual report and determine in each instance if the level of badness is enough to warrant removal or banning.

Negative feedback is important to healthy communication too. Downvotes help maintain civility and standards through consensus instead of fiat. Having to remove content that isn’t malicious but is inappropriate for the context or goals of a community feels like much more of a “punishment” than downvotes do. That sucks for mods having to do that level of policing if they want a high-quality community, for users who are outspoken / prolific but sometimes need help knowing where the line is, and for community members who end up feeling disenfranchised that it’s all up to the mods’ judgement, level of effort, and favoritism.

🤷‍♂️ If you’re committed to this route, I wish you luck in maintaining / scaling an environment in which downvotes aren’t needed. Respectfully, I think it’s a bit hubristic, and you might be letting a bias toward Reddit color your thinking too much here; downvoting is not their invention. Regardless, the core issue for me is that if I’m using Reddthat as my home instance, this decision restricts my options across all of lemmy. So I’ll be making a switch, but I appreciate your intent and taking the time to consider. All the best.

Zoho Notes has feature parity for everything I’ve seen, including letting you add collaborators to a notebook or note / list.

Their last update to the home screen widget ruined the styling and usability of it. Made all the controls and notes take up a ton more space by turning them into big dumb child buttons, leaving way less room for actual content. I switched to Zoho notes.

Please don’t self-promote the same link across multiple communities at once. 🫤 Feels super spammy.

Sorry, I don’t agree. Telling people they need to “fix” something that is a universal standard everywhere else across the web is poor framing, and its explanation as to what issues it’s actually trying to address is pithy and unclear.

I have no issue with there being a better way to internally link to communities within lemmy; it’s essentially a lemmy-specific handles format for communities. But I don’t think this bot does a good job of communicating that, especially to new users who have every reasonable expectation that a link is a good way to point to any place on the web.

Thank you; much appreciated!

Thank you for the explanation, it’s much more helpful than the bot’s message.

In this case specifically, the point of the URLs in my post is to show how the difference in how the subscriber stat for a community is displayed when it’s viewed from instances other than your home instance.

If someone who already has a GitHub account wants to post this there, feel free. 🙂 It would be really weird if LJ were not also monitoring their own community the day after launch. 😕

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Absolutely not. A URL is meant to be universal. If instances want to have some kind of custom shortcut format to linkify communities from just their name, that’s cool, but I should not be getting nag messages for using an actual URL as they’re meant to be used. There is nothing to “fix” in my post. Please fix your bot.