Hello users of hexbear after some discussion we mainly wanted to get your thoughts on the two pinned megathreads, one general and one news.
We've noticed that the news mega has basically become the general mega and the general mega has kinda slowed. Some are thinking that it might be time to tell people to stop posting random shit to the news mega because some appreciate the ever so slightly more serious, focused tone of the news mega
As of now there is not much of a standard for comments however we wanted to discuss with you regarding making a change. Where the news megathread is for discussion on current events and their history/implications for future while the general megathread is for commenting on one's life, interests, or for shit-posting.
This would result in the news megathread being more heavily moderated to actively remove comments that are a better fit for the general megathread or off topic.
Please comment with any thoughts, opinions, comments, questions, or concerns.
I don't understand why there is even a news megathread at all. Lemmy is a link aggregrator software. Nearly all of the posts on the news megathread are people just posting links. It would make way more sense for people to post news links in the news comm.
Yeah it made sense during the week of the invasion as containment for all the news happening in a tsunami.
I have a very high level of respect of what 72T does as well, and I say give them the keys to the comm, and continue posting the bulletins there.
What do you mean by "give them the keys"? SeventyTwoTrillion is already a mod of c/news.
72 is our Peter now.
I don't feel like I have any real say in this discussion but I wanna throw out that the stuff that gets shared in the news mega (also?) being their own posts would be very nice as a person who browses from another instance. If all that stuff showed up in my subscribed feed, instead of me having to browse huge comment sections, I would be thrilled.