At least quarantine that shit to the dunk tank.

I'm not on hexbear to spend all my time thinking about libs lol, I'm on hexbear because I like hexbear. I like the riffs, and the topics, and the cool knowledgeable users who post stuff I would never see otherwise. I've learned a ton here over the years, and it really feels like a wholly unique space on the internet.

    • Wheaties [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, however they weighed the old one was perfect. I get we have to go with the overall algorithm for federatin'... but that just means all of Lemmy is in desperate need of a better ruleset.

      • barrbaric [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        this

        I've been hoping they'll change Lemmy's Active sort to Hexbear's old one. If we'd had this back in the day I'm pretty confident the early struggle sessions would have killed the site.

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        • Owl [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          We did have this algorithm back in the day. The site kind of sucked until the admins fixed it.

        • Sphere [he/him, they/them]
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          1 year ago

          There's some kind of plan to restore the old active sort algorithm, but it hasn't happened yet. I tracked down the code that did it from the old implementation, but I have no idea if anyone is working on getting that integrated with the new codebase right now.

    • Esoteir [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      yea at least hot sort is almost half as good as the old active was

      • silent_water [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        posts only stay up on that one for like an hour though. the 12 hours of old Active was kind of a sweet spot for "what's goin on today" and "every thread is days old with struggle sessions in every thread"

    • spectre [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      That's true and I think part of it is an adjustment period which is gonna last a few more weeks till we kinda regulate and rebalance everything. This post is part of the process. Tweaking the sitting alg will help too.

      What's always a major turning point for us is when "big news" happens. People who logged off come back home, we sometimes struggle a bit and then establish a party line, it's all exciting stuff but only happens every 12-18 months I feel like. I'm looking forward to the next one though, it'll be interesting with federation.

  • blobjim [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    yes please! I wanna talk about the news, not meaningless anonymous usernames and text boxes on internet forums.

  • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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    1 year ago

    I agree. It's too easy. Some of them are funny but for the most part I wish my front page would return to interesting news and left wing hot takes.

    • WittyProfileName2 [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      I could try to kickstart the machines in the hot take factory again.

      One sec:

      Heartbeat is low-key fascistic with its emphasis on a prelapsarian view of "the good old days", likewise for Happy Days and any other TV show set in or around the 60's.

      Was that hot enough? If not I could pick another British drama/sitcom that no one cares about to call fascist.

  • 2Password2Remember [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    wish I could upbear this 1000 times. the whole point of this website is to not have to be bombarded with dumbass libs, and yet we have plenty of people who are content to bombard us all with dumbass libs. keep it to the dunk tank

    Death to America

    • Vampire [any]
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      1 year ago

      wish I could upbear this 1000 times

      You could m,anually create 1000 accounts

  • Zoift [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, if you wanna dog on someone, use the modlog. They've already cast the first stone so you can really go in swinging.

      • HornyOnMain
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        1 year ago

        Ngl why don't we just find someone in the modlog rn and @ them into here to start dunking on them?

        • HornyOnMain
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          1 year ago

          I found one who's not banned yet dean-malice

          CW for queerphobia

          Show

          Two upbears and I @ them

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            3 months ago

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              • HornyOnMain
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                1 year ago

                Also this

                Show

                "I vote liberal and I pay taxes but also I think homeless people should be left to die"

                (Also the last comment in the list was in reply to the thread about people using a racial slur as a common term for computers lol - tell a liberal they cant say slurs and a fascist blocks a community)

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                • HornyOnMain
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                  1 year ago

                  Yeah they also fucking hate homeless people too, the fucking le epic bacon lemmitor is pretty much proudly scratched at this point

      • Kuori [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        gotta kick 'em while they're down or they might get back up think-about-it

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  • Abraxiel
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    1 year ago

    Also not really a fan of when someone says some dumb shit and a score of hexbears descend like vultures to all get their super cool dunk in. Most of these replies contribute fuck all, often enough it's just bears replying to each other long after anyone else, and it bloats threads, making them less readable and keeping them hanging in the sort.

    Act like you've been there before. It's like in a twitch chat when there's something obvious to say and a hundred people fall over themselves to be the special little poster whose comment gets attention.

    Once a couple people have replied to an offending comment, just move on. Really think about whether whatever you want to say hasn't been communicated already.

    • Farman [any]
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      1 year ago

      I personaly love it. Because my usual experience in social media is the libs mobing me. Its nice to be at the other end for once.

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  • thisismyrealname [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    i use the site less because of this, the posts have gotten a lot less enjoyable now that everyone's whining about libs all the time

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    4 months ago

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  • Vampire [any]
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    1 year ago

    I wish there were fewer screenshots of people saying really reallly really dumb things.

    The world is a big place, of course some very stupid things will be said every day. We should focus our attention away from that.

  • DayOfDoom [any, any]
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    1 year ago

    That's it. I'm defederating the site. With or without the mods' will.