Right now, if I want to hide a post, I do one of two things: I either upvote the post (because I feel guilty downvoting just for hiding it) or click on the comments, forcing loading more data, even if I don't care for the comments of a meme picture, for instance.
In both cases I have to refresh the whole front page, putting even more unnecessary load on the server. Reddit third party Apps used to have a simple hide function that would solve the issue.
Is this unwanted to kind of force participation? I don't want to up- or downvote posts I feel indifferent about.
Most stuff on reddit is aggregated content anyway (or even reposted). Can't somebody write a script to get the top contributions of the day and "crosspost" them to a suitable sub on lemmy? This would work better for certain content than for another, but stuff like funny memes would be no problem, right? I'm not looking at cat videos from Youtube and shitposts for the deep discussion in the comments.
@Elektrotechnik
@lemmy.world