Reading comments on Lemmy / Reddit mostly. I’m not looking for the top voted answer but rather the points that people mention and considering what’s important to me. If possible I also check with friends that might have purchased something similar

Overtime I’ll use Reddit less and less, given that they’re now actively telling businesses to take advantage of that effect. Old comments are still ok, but new comments are all suspect

https://www.business.reddit.com/

What a mess.

I started using this recently and it seems to work pretty well. I’d love to know more about how they pick out the topics

Makes me think of this classic:

Instead of our, they use are as if they forgot the word our exists.

I’m not sure if I’ve seen this, is this about the pronunciation?

I’m not sure if this counts, but I’ve enjoyed some pieces from The Conversation. They’re detailed and written by someone who has experience in the subject

https://theconversation.com/ca/who-we-are

https://theconversation.com/ca

You could try posting in [email protected] as well!

St. John’s Wort

if you take literally any other medicine, please do not take it. It interferes with basically every other drug out there

Thanks for including that! The link below has some more information on common interactions.

The list below includes some recognized interactions. However, other drugs may also interact with St. John’s wort. Check with your doctor before using St. John’s wort in combination with any other drugs, especially prescription medications.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements-st-johns-wort/art-20362212

We’re the giants in their ‘Human and the grass-stalk’ story

Taking a look at the current sidebar, it might be nice to reorganize the stats section completely

What I’m thinking is:

By default it will only show some stats, where users can select what stats they want displayed in the settings. This way I can hide the stuff I don’t care about, instead of having to look through the already busy list.

**Statistics:**                       [✏️edit]

- Monthly Active Users: 4,000
- Total Subscribers: 30,000

[ v see all v ]

Then expanding the box will give the full list of stats:

[ ^ collapse ^ ]


**Statistics:**

Active Users: 

- By day: 800
- By week: 1,200
- By month: 4,000
- By year: 24,100

Subscribers:

- Total: 30,000
- Local: 12,000

Comments: 
- Total: 81,000
- Today: 510
- This week: 1,315

[... etc]

It opens up the possibility of including more items in that list. We could also replace the expand option with a link to a full statistics dashboard page.

Creating a bunch of accounts possibly to manipulate votes

Looking from the admin level, doesn’t happen that often. Vote manipulation is already something we keep an eye out for, and usually it’s done to highlight certain content (ex. pushing some political angle) rather than boosting one community over another.

you can stop seeing by adjusting your “Show Bot Accounts” setting

I like some bots, but I only subscribe to a bot-only community if the volume of posts is reasonable.

Alternatively, I think both metrics are helpful in different ways

1. Quality over Quantity: MAU counts lurkers equally with active participants. PCM focuses on actual engagement.

3. True Reflection of Activity: A community with 1000 MAU but only 10 posts/comments is less vibrant than one with 100 MAU and 500 posts/comments.

I’d say votes are also an important part of engagement. It helps differentiate between good and bad content. I’m more likely to join a community with a few good posts a day (or even a week) than a bot community with many posts a day. Going by how the subscribers counts change over time, I’d say this is a common experience.

2. Spam Resistance: Creating multiple accounts to inflate MAU is easy. Generating meaningful posts and comments is harder.

While any abuse is bad, spam posts and comments are a bigger concern right now. AI generated spam / link spam is obnoxious and we deal with it often (as admins/mods). While someone could make lots of accounts to inflate MAU, it only really affects the community ranking against other communities and not day to day usage. Lemmy is already considering removing the trending section, and admins usually step in if a bunch of similar accounts are created at once.

5. Easier to Track: No need for complex user tracking. Just count posts and comments.

I’m not sure I understand this point. Are the vote/comment/post calculations very resource intensive?

All that being said

• I don’t see any downside to listing the info in the places you mentioned
• If people want such a sorting option, then sure why not. Give people options

deleted by creator

I wonder what happens if a comment is deleted

This is good feedback, and I agree. I try my best to limit moderation to content that needs removing, and simply vote on the rest.

One thing I find is that mods are more likely to remove/nuke a thread when they’re stretched thin or there is a wave of rule breaking content. Bringing on more active mods can help so that each mod can spend more time scrutinizing each post.

The other great thing about the Fediverse is that you can make your own version of a community if you disagree with how one is being run. I’ve joined a few communities with different styles of moderation

What communities do you check that are more quiet now?

I think it’s because it’s just memes and also quite hard moderation and downvotes

Could this be specific to the American election?

I feel like I’ve seen more items in the moderation queue recently. I can’t say I’ve had to act on more items though

I can only speak for myself:

I’m here, still reading and voting, but I haven’t posted/commented as much recently.

Life got a bit busy, should be back to normal in a bit

It might be helpful to be able to set default per community for something like this. For example, [email protected], it would be a jumbled mess to have it be all in one thread

Well this is duck duck go, I don’t think that is personalized?

I believe the issue is that both settings change at the same time, so either the mouse feels backwards or the trackpad does.

There were some third party tools to change that