About fuckin time, Joe!

What really hurts so much about this is that Reddit is effectively a modern Alexandrian Library, and it’s burning. There’s so much content there that’s vitally important and it could all go up in smoke. Anybody know any full archival projects?

I’d be able to bury Bezos in nickels, on his back preferably

Ah, yep, left the debug on. An understandable oversight, if I had a nickel for how many times I’ve forgotten that…

Please note it’s not a default community VIEW I propose. Just an initial set of subscriptions. Everything else should still be visible.

Quit trying to fit Lemmy into a Reddit box

Good idea!

This is acceptable. My point is to have a streamlined new user experience. How we get there precisely isn’t quite that important to me.

Presented is not the same as actually used by users. You are not the average user, nor am I.

Unfortunately as is the reality of UX, opt in functions are rarely used.

Agreed

A toggle in the signup process, checked by default, which says “subscribe me to default communities” wouldn’t be too bad a compromise.

This suggestion is intended to streamline things for the average user. People who do not care about ideology, ethos, what’s problematic or not, and just want to sign up and see stuff and immediately get involved in basic discussion.

I can’t see the idea of the coms where more people gather having larger sway as a bad thing, I’m sorry. However, taking into account opinions like yours is why I suggested a simple server news, server discussion, and general catchall com collection as the starter default.

Should’ve thought of that one myself, nice

That’s your opinion and you’re welcome to it, but nothing will kill adoption rates harder than doing the whole early Mastodon thing of “you should change how you behave here”