Yep!!!

I’ve been saying more or less the same for a while … cloning big social platform designs is a problem on the fediverse. That people can’t seem to give up their big social habits is part of it too.

Voting was always a weird thing. Especially the downvote. Still convinced that’s toxic. With sufficient community organisation, along the lines of what you say, voting would be unnecessary and probably distracting.

I can see lemmy being flexible though. Private (or non-all-feed) communities sorted by New, hosted as you say on actual community driven instances like forums, and then for those who want it, more conventional Reddit things on bigger instances.

But yea, the doom scrolling expectation is a problem.

Thanks for the thoughts! And best wishes with whatever you’re up to!