Atemu

I’d highly recommend you actually read it. Once you look past the LLM-ish phrasing, it quickly becomes clear that the actual information contained is human-made with a great amount of valuable thought put into it.

I’ve been here for a long-time (go and check if you’d like). There wasn’t a single thing in that post that made me think the author hasn’t understood the principles of the fediverse that make it so valuable or reasoned wrong about them – quite the opposite.

This post idenifies many (if not most) of the major problems that I have had with Lemmy over the years. The onboarding improvements you’ve seemed to have at least glanced at are just the tip of the iceberg.
I use Lemmy despite of these limitations but I am also a technical person with quite a bit of tolerance for such technological pain. The high-level improvements proposed here would meaningfully diminish these; allowing less technologically capable or tolerant people to benefit from Lemmy too.

This is actual UX requirement engineering.

If broader (and less technical) user adoption is a goal of the Lemmy project, I’d consider the vision outlined in this post to possibly be one of the most valuable non-technical contributions to Lemmy as a whole.
Seriously.

This wouldn’t really solve the issue as the user could rather simply create as many accounts as they like to circumvent per-account limits.

Thanks for letting us know. Blocking you now since replying to you in a public forum would be a waste of time if you’re going to delete it immediately after.

Always running in the background.

These can however get stuck sometimes. It’s harmless but you can fix it by re-subscribing and then reloading the page.

July 1st was over a month ago.

I think that’s an absolutely valid concern.

In the fediverse, we have some tools against abuse of this though because every Gold application would be public just like upvotes are.

if you also target low score posts first

That’s not a good metric either. There are many low scored posts I found on Reddit that were immensely helpful for some niche issue I was having.

While I’d still prefer to keep it, I’d agree that content meant for entertainment such as memes aren’t as valuable for long-term archival though. You can always get entertainment in so many places and forms but you can’t revive lost knowledge.
The most value memes could have would be for historical analysis.

I liked Reddit Gold when that’s all there was. A super-upvote conveying “I’d pay money for this posting”.
The weird tiers they added later weren’t an improvement on that but fine I guess and the stupid icon thingies they have now? They’re horrible.

So, I’d be in favour of something like the old Reddit Gold but I wonder how it could even work in the fediverse.

How well does it work currently?

actual Nazis or like far-right wackos and MAGA nuts

Is there much of a difference nowadays?