This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they’d like to @nutomic@lemmy.ml and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.

Note: This will be the thread tmrw, so you can use this thread to ask and vote on questions beforehand.

Original Announcement thread

  • @Vent@lemm.eeEnglish
    20•2 years ago

    Any thoughts on adding emoji (or custom) reactions to posts? Might be a fun free alternative to Reddit’s award system. Might just add clutter.

    Edit: nvm, found an open issue where you said you’d like to add it but there are lots of other things to do first: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2541

      • CaptainBlagbirdEnglish
        5•2 years ago

        just one special award award that you can grant once per day

        Sounds good at first, but sooner or later it would result in users using alts to highlight their own comments. Even if it was granted only once a month or less.

        Sure, bumping your comments is already possible with alts, but it’s not so effective and distracting like an award would be.

        With Reddit Gold, you at least had to decide if you really wanted to spend your real money on it.

        I like the concept of users saying “hey that comment helped/entertainment me a lot and really deserves a special spotlight”, but it shouldn’t be too easy to abuse.

        Maybe Lemmy Gold Spotlight should be available to give away once you’ve made a donation. Maybe there would be other problems with that.

        • @Bucky@816am.ddns.netEnglish
          5•2 years ago

          I think it should be generated by participation that is upvoted. If you contribute enough quality stuff, you get one gold to give out. And yeah it should just be gold, and multiple golds would have just one icon, with a number;

      • @solarbabies@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3•2 years ago

        Could it be limited to only show the top 3 emoji reactions on the UI (like on LinkedIn), or simply show the number of reactions, and require an extra click to view them all?

      • DessalinesOPMEnglish
        2•2 years ago

        This is more about reactions like mastodon has, IE they’d live alongside upvotes, but not affect the sorting.

    • ᗪᗩᗰᑎEnglish
      5•2 years ago

      Here’s some lemmy gold for your contribution

      ✨🪙✨

      Edit: I see its silver on Macs, so… lemmy coin?

    • @elauso@feddit.deEnglish
      4•2 years ago

      I generally like awards, but on Reddit I’ve completely ignored them on posts. It was just too many of them.

      I liked the awards for comments though, as they helped pick out comments from the bottomless pit. Not really a problem on Lemmy yet…