With a fresh new start we have the power to enforce some unspoken etiquettes on the site in the hopes of a better platform than Reddit.
One great feature I see no one talking about is that we can write our own text when posting links, which is extremely useful for communities that mostly link articles. A lot of the political and tech related articles are mostly fluff, filled with jargon and clickbait only to have a one line news at the end of it all.
We should try to make it a habit to write the main point(s) that the article is making to avoid misinformation and ragebait titles. Ideally, a post without any text backing the article would become a red flag that it’s posted by some bot or mass spammer, and would not be floated to the front page.
Interested to hear what the rest of the Lemmy community thinks!
This might be really useful for communities that require submission statements with linked articles. It would be harder to forget to add one as a comment and moderating the requirement should be easier with submission statements in the post itself, as well as making it easier for readers to see it (in plenty of subreddits the submission statement gets pushed down so if they don’t have an automod comment pinned with a copy of the comment you have to go searching for it)