Martineski

I'm confused, what's the "hmmm"?

Hello~ please change the title to "hmmm". Thank you. 🧐

This is a link detection and not an image one. Two wildly different things. It also wouldn't handle images with slight differences like an edit here and there because again, doesn't handle images. Same goes for varying levels of compression. In fact it wouldn't even detect the exact same images with different sources or when reuploaded by users. Even if there were people who source images from the same place it would still be irrelevant without an overwhelming share of the users doing that to make the feature actually relevant. And EVEN if there was this high coordination then any trackers, shorteners, arguments, etc. varying the link to the same source they would be treated as a different links without recognising them as a duplicate like with youtube for example. So users would need to be a literal mindhive to coordinate on this level and at this point the tools would be pointless because the knowledge would be shared between everyone anyway.

Having this feature would help immensely both as a poster and as a mod to handle the images with high probability of being a repost. But at the same time I know it isn't feasible due to image processing requiring quite a bit of computing power so it will continue to be a dream.

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"FUCK"

I use a bridge to matrix for private messages to the bot accounts, reports for posts for which there are multiple bot accounts on different instances because federation is broken for reports, and new posts to the communities (where the last one was merged just few hours ago). We are also contemplating getting ourselves the functionality to automatically message users when we take action on their post/comment.

It's crazy how far we have to go to make moderating stuff easier/more pleasant to do. I hope lemmy improves in that by a lot at some point.

My another gripe is no ability to detect image reposts because in image heavy communities they're very common and remembering what was posted and when is a massive pita. That would fall under a bot category and not integrated feature (but would be cool if it was deeply integrated into lemmy so situations where it would tell you if it's a repost BEFORE you even post it could be possible) but it's still something that makes it harder to moderate. Same goes for posting to other communities because you need to check if it was posted recently or not if you aren't chronically online to know that already.

I will just mention that including the direct link is friendly for mobile app users. Voyager for example keeps me on my account when clicking links that are in this format: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/36114134

E: Lemmyverse.link takes me outside the app to the browser.

Ye, I meant tweaking the numbers. But we will see how it goes with this post first I guess.

Maybe a simpler solution like giving a stronger per user voting power but putting the overall limit lower would make sense?

Purely as an example and not suggestion, 1/50 voting power but limited at +/- 5 votes of max influence.

Edit: Alternatively instead of putting a hard limit a soft limit where upvotes and downvotes past a certain amount have less influence in case posts gets viral. So upvotes in the amounts 1-100 would be counted as 1/50 of a vote and anything past 100 as 1/100 or 1/150 for example. (Again, an example and not suggestion on what the specific numbers should be.)

"Apples? Bananas?"

I'm for the ban of the links but not the screenshots. Screenshots without links will provide the content without giving an easy way to move the traffic there so it would be a positive change without hurting the activity on lemmy. Banning screenshots would add a lot to the modding workload as well which isn't great either regardless of if it's the mods taking care of it or the admins.

I think it may be better to collect ideas first and then create a new post with all the entries as comments. Currently whatever gets commented first has the advantage of time to collect the votes. Just a thought tho.

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