I see this reason used quite a bit but it's not clear to me what it means. Please and thank you!
Not the real answer, but because low-stakes conspiracy theories are fun: it is to discourage people browsing the modlog.
Real answer: somebody thought it was funny and is yet to tire of the bit.
Signatures would be cool. The subreddit had a “America delanda est” guy iirc.
@2Password2Remember@hexbear.net must have forgotten his password again
I think it's also because we are a bit stuck, lemmy has no way to lock a community without making it private and hiding all the old posts iirc
Why though? People seem happy its back so why get rid of it is the part that confuses me.
putting all the posts in one comm severely reduces people's ability to curate their feed in any real way or disable comms that frequently have triggering material or whatever. If I didn't want to see news or doomerposting I can just unsub from or even block those comms. If everything is posted to main I can't do that. main sucked and continues to suck. The "no main" bit is unfunny but it's better than another black hole comm that all posts go in because people can't be bothered to select "news" or "technology" or "memes" or whatever. Its not like the rules are strictly enforced and posts that don't quite fit any one comm get deleted.
putting all the posts in one comm severely reduces people's ability to curate their feed in any real way or disable comms that frequently have triggering material or whatever.
That makes sense. Thank you for explaining.
The problem is the limited number of comms. Despite this, some of this small number are very specific and get hardly any posts.
Sorting posts into the appropriate comm and leaving the rest in "Main" seems like a moderator job to me.
Sorting posts into the appropriate comm and leaving the rest in "Main" seems like a moderator job to me.
No.
Not their job, and there's no capability in lemmy for mods to move posts around like that. Even if we added one it would probably have to be exclusive to admins since mods are appointed at the comm level
But I 100% agree, sometimes there is not a perfectly appropriate comm, we could use some more broad ones probably. If you can come up with some specific examples, c/commrequest is there. However, if you leave main as a fallback people will use it for everything and we're back where we started.
Yeah, well that was half my job when I used to mod web-based forums. Sorting misfiled posts into the correct subforum. It's something that just comes with the job.
Mainly it the lack of the world "main" in the main body of a comment
