(I haven’t submitted an official rfc yet, want to see what people think)

This is inspired by Ruqqus, a now defunct Reddit alternative.

The idea is simple:

  1. There is a “global” or “default” community with no topic or extra rules, moderated only by admins
  2. Community moderators, when they feel a post is inappropriate for their community can “kick” a post to the global community

The reasoning is as follows: a good amount, probably the majority of posts that are removed by mods, are not removed because they are inappropriate for the site as a whole, but because they are inappropriate for that specific community (off-topic, banned site, low effort, etc.). But currently the only option they have to deal with this is a full blown removal, which is quite frustrating for the poster.

This proposal would allow mods to keep curated communities without needing to do unnecessary removals.

As a bonus, this would create a default community where people can post when they’re not sure where to post something. Posts can be later be crossposted into more specific communities.

  • AedisEnglish
    3•3 days ago

    I thing there’s something here. I don’t think that this is the solution though.

    What I think is good:

    • A default place for posts
    • A way to remove posts from a community without nuking the user’s post
    • Possibilities of cross posting and for de-duping efforts

    What I think is bad:

    • A default community managed by admins (unscalable)
    • seems like a huge deviation from the current activity pub spec (which is kinda terrible ngl)
    • will need a very specific adapter to keep compatibility with other existing activity pub front ends.
    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      2•3 days ago

      We could certainly have mods for this default community too, that’s not crucial to the idea.

      Could you expand in where this conflicts with activitypub? I thought AP was too general to care about something like this

      • ladfrombrad 🇬🇧English
        2•3 days ago

        We could certainly have mods for this default community too, that’s not crucial to the idea.

        It is thou, and why /r/reddit.com got archived eventually since the reddit admins (mods) couldn’t keep up.

        Where do you pool them from?