I wouldn’t normally recommend borrowing things from 4chan, but: their posts automatically populate the footer-area of comments with a list of links to direct replies. Each direct reply, in the reply’s header area, will then contain a link to the comment it’s replying to, and hovering over these links displays a preview of said comment. The text of these links also displays the ID # of the post or comment being referred to.

@dessalines@lemmy.ml

Reject Reddernity

Embrace BBition

Thanks!

So does this mean it’s possible to access any account that you know the password of if the wildcards are used for the username?

@dessalines@lemmy.ml @nutomic@lemmy.ml

Honestly I think making a post on the TL should be locked until you make 1 or 2 comments, nothing huge. That alone would be enough to stop bots who tend to just be one-shots.

Curious if it’s still cheaper than physical model trains, but personally I prefer how accessible this one is.

Finally a train sim that doesn’t have thousands of dollars in mods.

You guys seriously want more visual clutter no one replies to on here? Most posts on Lemmy barely have any comments or upvotes. Where is the post quality? Where is the site culture? Whenever I post anywhere else I try to tailor things to my audience so they might actually participate, not flood them with so much content they’ll never be able to read it all. That’s not how you build a community.

Isn’t this a browser-level feature?

Excite!

Isn’t spreading obvious misinfo when you should report someone?

My thought on this: people hate making new accounts.

There’s like a threshold in the human brain where the desire for membership has to exceed the loathing human beings have for account creation. Like if Mastodon didn’t require users to make up their own passwords, I bet their userbase would double overnight. It’s the reason why so many apps now just text you a one-time pass, so you don’t have to remember your own.

What Discord does is lure people in with invites from your existing irl social network, your guild, your subreddit, whatever. And once they get you over the password creation hump you’re now part of a walled garden ecosystem with thousands of chatrooms that can be accessed easily if you just have the link. Discord increases engagement because it allows users to be lazy. Anyone who makes a server there taps into that massive snowballing userbase.

It is really funny, though, how the game store didn’t work out. The paradigm seems to fall apart a bit once credit cards get involved. I imagine people don’t want their financial info tied to the account they use to trade porn.

TBH, based on the huge amounts of drama about it at chapochat, requiring visible pronouns (including enby-friendly ones) for new users weirds out a lot of rightos. They will outright refuse to use them and incessantly complain about it. It seems like an effective deterrent for everyone but the more determined trolls.