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I would add greater actual engagement between people, like is occurring here, to that. Probably the two go hand in hand.

Nothing sounds more fun than a paroxysm of analysis with every 'doot

A volcano can fix these types of immortality

Accepting a financial gift from someone led, a few months later, to me causing another person's death.

Probably impossible to implement but, man, just way less reposting of the same stuff. I'm hoping a system that places less emphasis on "karma" will help?

I doubt the fediverse ecology will be any better (and maybe even worse) at (a) helping people prior content that, e.g., will answer a question they have and (b) have a system that encourages the reviving of prior posts rather then the propagation of the same content as a new post.

"I'm a simple man. When I see a 'this' I upvote."

Generally, shifting away from a binary system could be beneficial. What would be the options? What's enough but not too many options to cover the gamut? Maybe two types of positive ("I agree" and "This is quality") and two types of critical options ("I don't agree" and "This is poor quality") ?

For this to work, the upvote would likewise have to cease meaning "agree" and instead mean "good answer." Unfortunately that'd be a step too far for most people. At the end of the day, entertainment, not edification, is the primary driver for most people to be on social media. So they need a way to express favor for answers that are enjoyed even if they don't lead to deeper discussion.

Perhaps a three button system would work.

All that said, I also would love there to be less lazy comments.

I'll definitely play around with it

You know, I never quite realized that, in fact, reddit does front-load lots of petty drama to keep me on there. I've basically been little better than someone watching the Kardashians or something.

Crap.

Currently use Standard Notes to dump, in a semi-organized way, kind of everything from jottings to links, recipes, lists, ad hoc wiki (e.g. for how to use kbin).

Is Logseq, or Obsidian, a step further from this? Say, with greater ways to interact with what I collect?

Head's up for anyone on kbin.social: drop the "!" from the beginning of the instance url otherwise it likely won't show up in your search.

So [email protected] instead of [email protected]