Living fossil.
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I get your point, but I agree with RobotToaster. We’re still at a point where the Fediverse is a very niche thing and a very niche term. For most regular people “Fediverse” is a nonsense word that tells them absolutely nothing, while “decentralised” (albeit a technical term) is at least a concept most people can grasp.
I’m not saying your sentence is inaccurate, but send that description to a regular person and it will either cause their eyes to glaze over or cause them to run in the other direction.
Subscribed/Scaled, mixed with occasionally keeping an eye on Local/New (as I’m on a small instance).
I never ever touch /all.
Summit.
Since the recent inbox revamp the red notification number icon on the inbox is slow to disappear, sometimes requiring multiple refreshes even after clicking Mark Read or replying to my last unread comment.
I wish the push notifications were faster. I still have Boost and Sync installed on my device and I get push notifications from them much faster than from Summit.
Completely agree with you.
I really like your solution!
How much can people be trusted? How well does an open modlog and the ability to move instances work as a means to keep abusive mods in check? That’s basically what the question comes down to.
I have no doubt that well-meaning and good natured mods could put post and comment editing of others to good use to improve the end user experience for most users. But these kinds of tools are also easily abused, and in worse ways than simple banning and deletion. For this reason, disallowing editing is definitely safer. But is that tradeoff actually better? I don’t know.
Death of third-party Reddit apps due to exorbitantly increased prices for API usage.
Would be a great feature, trying to follow ongoing discussion in a thread you’ve already visited is annoying currently.
No, that’s not how it works. Instances absolutely interact, that’s the whole idea of federation. It can get more complicated than that if you want to get into the details of how it works, but that knowledge isn’t in any way necessary to just use the platform.
Loving these development updates and it looks like you’re making good progress, I really appreciate all the work that you guys do. ❤️
I had a look at the join-lemmy redesign too, and it looks slick, much better than before.
Completely agree. I can think of many examples of an instance whose content I don’t want on my frontpage (foreign language instances for example) but whose users I still want to interact with in communities on other instances.
Dedicated users posting is the best way to slowly grow communities like that. It’s much less likely others will post if it seems like a ghost town, but if someone is posting others are much more likely to join in. And at the very least there’ll be content to engage with when new people find it.
This would be a great setting, especially if the toggle is easily accessible in the UI. I personally want to change between Top/New comments fairly frequently.
Feddit.nu upgraded to 0.18.3 and I can confirm Hot seems to be working now.
Top 6 Hours and New Comments are still both useful sorts, though.
The Hot algorithm seems to be working properly after the new update, even on a smaller instance. Feddit.nu just updated to 0.18.3 and I’m no longer seeing months-old posts on the frontpage when sorting by Hot!
And the database improvements are incredibly impressive, thanks for all the continuous great work!
There seems to be two bugs with the calculation. First of all the count doesn’t sum properly, secondly it resets to 0 when you delete a comment.
It’s also worth adding that Karma calculation on Lemmy - at least currently - is even more meaningless since it doesn’t work properly. Not only does it fail to calculate your score well [1], deleting a comment resets your total comment score to 0. [2]
Not sure your example formatting for spoiler tags is correct, this is what it looks like on my end (using Jerboa)
But how many will actually do that, though? That doesn’t really sound like how regular people would react. Like, if regular people were capable of reading up and looking into things on their own accord as part of the sign-up process we wouldn’t need to have this conversation about a snappy and succinct summary sentence about Lemmy in the first place.