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by brokenmachine 3442 days ago
> b) a respect for language and words, which comes across in lots of different places in the interface.

Can you please give an example of how Lyra encourages a respect for language and words, when it is not moderated?

I'm trying hard not to be rude, as I respect anyone who produces their own platform, but as I see it, the only thing that makes words extra important in Lyra is the fact that it doesn't support images and other media.
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lyra_comms 3442 days ago
Hello! Lyra encourages respect for language by providing editing tools, and display tools, that respect language. For instance, we never truncate comments (like Facebook). We offer users the chance to write a nicely formatted message rather than a "poke" or emoticon. We use paragraphs (an exquisitely tuned tool for guiding the eye across a section of text, evolved over several hundred years.

We are basically saying: your words are important, and we won't hide them.

Another massively important way in which we value language is that we don't build tools for the viral spreading of clickbait into our platform.

Moderation is a separate issue from whether you respect language or not. Lyra is carefully designed to be harrassment-proof without the need for moderation. We do this by prioritising people rather than online spaces (like forums or subreddits).

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josepi_ 3442 days ago
That's my hangup. This promises a lot but only delivers on not having algorithms for your content and not having ads. That's great but adblock takes care of the ads and the algorithms are often not so big a deal (e.g. when subscribing to a small subreddit). I see literally not reason why it would encourage the language buzzwords.

And frankly, the UI is clunky af!

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lyra_comms 3442 days ago
Hello! Adblock doesn't take care of the fact that everything Facebook does is built around the concept of serving ads. Even if you block them, you're still using an ad network.

Lyra isn't aiming to move into Reddit's space. Reddit is a machine for sorting strangers' comments by interestingness.

The UI is constantly improving; can you tell us some specific issues you have so that we can look at them?

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