was thinking this while starting a new gen, erasing the starter stuff, and hitting save.

Why do new generators start public?

it’s a nothing gen with nothing on it yet. Shouldn’t it start private and then, when I’m ready for it to be public I toggle that setting? or is generator page filled with: the ideal? What if, instead, it contained only what people INTENTIONALLY made public?

Im not saying ‘weed out nonfamous people’. I’m asking whether new gens starting public is really what’s best. I also don’t even strongly have this stance since it’s just an idea I had today so don’t viciously attack me like if I’m tearing apart your soul. I’d think a newcommer, when ready for people to come to their gen, would have no problem toggling to public. Discussion welcome.

also i already know this is too big a change to actually happen. curious any comments tho

  • Danno@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Yah, me too, and it will probably rid the ‘recently added/updated generators’ list from a lot of straightforward ‘I wonder what the [save] button does’ copies.

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    6 months ago

    People (myself included) are lazy and usually won’t bother to make a change unless they have a specific reason. If the default were private then we wouldn’t have the huge compendium of interesting pages to look through that we do.

    Please keep the default public.

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      6 months ago

      as a gen owner that’s pretty careless doing so and deserve being hidden unless manually turned on. I find careless gen uninteresting.