Yes you are right - it’s not immediately presented to people at the top, so easy to miss. On the other hand, like the page that I am on now replying to you, there is only your comment and this one I am writing now, so it is much easier to see the rules at the bottom of this page than if there were let’s say >1k comments to have to scroll past. Although if someone knows that the info is there, it somewhat makes it easier to find information from it while writing a reply or even just reading other comments - I’ve done that on YPTB for the more rarely used acronyms before.
More generally the more apps there are, the greater diversity of methods of access to the Threadiverse (starting with the underlying Lemmy vs. PieFed vs. Mbin, also Mastodon, Friendica, at some point nodeBB and flarum - if that plan isn’t cancelled now), and then all the 3rd party apps available for each platform.
Another thing that PieFed helps solve is when people scroll through All and downvote content without realizing what it is all about, a subset of the OP issue, but PieFed provides the ability to restrict voting to only accounts that are subscribed to the community, if the mods enable that setting (I believe it only affects PieFed instances though, since PieFed cannot restrict if Lemmy wants to federate an upvote or not). I like the idea of this since that would affect users regardless of what front-end UI method of access they use.
Yes you are right - it’s not immediately presented to people at the top, so easy to miss. On the other hand, like the page that I am on now replying to you, there is only your comment and this one I am writing now, so it is much easier to see the rules at the bottom of this page than if there were let’s say >1k comments to have to scroll past. Although if someone knows that the info is there, it somewhat makes it easier to find information from it while writing a reply or even just reading other comments - I’ve done that on YPTB for the more rarely used acronyms before.
More generally the more apps there are, the greater diversity of methods of access to the Threadiverse (starting with the underlying Lemmy vs. PieFed vs. Mbin, also Mastodon, Friendica, at some point nodeBB and flarum - if that plan isn’t cancelled now), and then all the 3rd party apps available for each platform.
Another thing that PieFed helps solve is when people scroll through All and downvote content without realizing what it is all about, a subset of the OP issue, but PieFed provides the ability to restrict voting to only accounts that are subscribed to the community, if the mods enable that setting (I believe it only affects PieFed instances though, since PieFed cannot restrict if Lemmy wants to federate an upvote or not). I like the idea of this since that would affect users regardless of what front-end UI method of access they use.