@ericjmorey
@programming.devDiscord is designed and implemented better than all of the other options I've used. I think I've used 10 of them.
Is it self-centered if a lot of people do it, though?
Everyone can be self centered at the same time. Not sure why you think that wouldn't be possible.
Is voting “a self-centered” action, or a community one?
Depends on the voter.
My point is that it doesn’t matter why they do it. The platform allows it, so it’s fair game.
It hard to see why you expect that the "Admins" would be able to prevent anything they don't prefer so casually.
It would be nice if the software allowed for many more things but it is limited, development is slow, and prioritizes what they get funding to work on. If you look at the issues list, you'll see that there are many desired changes, so the current release is not how the developers intend it to function.
admins should have an option to disable voting from people who are (1) browsing All and (2) not subscribed.
I would really like this feature, but it doesn't exist. If I were an admin a lemmy instance, I would not consider it fair game to downvote a post on a community that you're not subscribed to. It would be a lot of work to enforce that. Just like there's a lot of work to reduce SPAM. I wouldn't call SPAM fair game because the developers haven't created a perfect SPAM filter (currently, they don't have one at all). I would consider SPAM self centered even if many people do it.
They complain that thier feed is being "polluted" while actively censoring the feeds of others that subscribe to communities. How is that not a self-centered and irrational thinking?
It's probably not subscribers to the community but people who insist on browsing all
with no effort for curation of their feed. Many people complain of others polluting their feed as if they have no way to effectively filter by topic.
My interpretation:
It means unstable (expect the beta version to be different than the alpha version in possibly fundamental and significant ways), and possibly buggy (let them know what problems you run into). If you're okay with that, have at it!
People on Lemmy instances really hate any mention of AI unless it's a negative statement about AI.
He has an account on Fosstodon where he posted the same: https://fosstodon.org/@carlrichell/112832250760720085
Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
I see a lot of people learning to program struggle to think of project ideas. This is an attempt to provide a means to get past that mental block. I feel it fit the purpose of the community which is offering to help those that are learning to program. I appreciate that you and others can disagree with that.
It seems you've interpreted this post as giving suggestions which must or should be followed as written rather than a way to inspire ideas for projects one might be interested in. With that view, I can see why you'd think that these specific suggestions are not good projects as they are intentionally silly and useless and poorly defined. But to answer your specific concern about what's the point of taking on a nonsensical project, it's to identify something that you don't know how to do but have interest in doing then learn how to do it and have a bit of low stakes fun while doing so.
Thanks again for giving your opinion. It's clear that this approach isn't going to resonate with everyone.