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Cake day: March 14th, 2023
  • Rentlar@lemmy.catoLemmy@lemmy.ml•Is there is a way to see downvotes on my instance?English
    5·
    6 months ago

    Reddthat has downvotes turned off, only upvotes are recorded on your instance. Jerboa (if that’s the client you’re talking about), has options to display downvotes as a percentage, up and down or net score only. Those options will only function if your instance records downvotes.

    You can’t just get scores from other instances, that’s not how that works. The scores shown from each instances varies slightly due to different instances being linked. That’s helpful because if an egotistical admin spins up an instance with 5000 self-made accounts that all upvote a post that admin made, defederating that instance will remove the stuffed votes from the score.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.catoLemmy@lemmy.ml•Algorithmic post orderingEnglish
    4·
    6 months ago

    Mastodon’s filter system works wonders, where if you’re seeing too much of some keyword you can block that temporarily or permanently, and either erase it entirely from your feed or hide matching posts in a spoiler. It would be awesome if something like that could be adapted for Lemmy.

    For current client-agnostic solutions, you can do any of the following on Lemmy:

    • wait until the drama dies down
    • select Top [time period], Active, Scaled, New Comment sorts until you find something you like
    • change your scope to Local (for you that will be lemmy.ee only so nothing from the shown communities), or curate the comms you like to see and change scope to Subscribed.
    • block the community you don’t want to see, then set a calendar reminder for when you can go to your settings on the web, find the blocks tab and unblock it.
  • Rentlar@lemmy.catoLemmy@lemmy.ml•We seem to be getting attacked.English
    39·
    1 year ago

    Mods everywhere be careful I guess? Did they obtain mod or admin permissions or any secret data or is this just another case of spammers?

    From the screenshot I can read:

    Hello! I’m Itoh Akihisa from criminal group “Black Cat Server”. Our organization from day-to-day contributes to society…

  • Rentlar@lemmy.catoLemmy@lemmy.ml•PSA: You can upload images to a Lemmy instance without anyone knowingEnglish
    23·
    2 years ago

    I have no issue with your post itself and discussing this issue it is important to highlight things like this. Thank you for bringing it up, and sorry if I sound mad at you for doing that.

    I will point out, the specific thing that bothers me is that the heading

    How come this hasn’t been addressed before?

    contains an incomplete answer that ignores work that is currently in progress by devs to address. I don’t blame you for not knowing the answer but for including and answering that question when you don’t know the answer. To me it’s reminiscent of Tucker Carlson-style questioning, where some issue is brought up, questions are asked but then the answer is sparsely researched and the viewer is expected to come to some conclusion of who to blame. This specifically is what gets on my nerves.

    If you can include where work to rectify the issue had been discussed and is in progress like github issues, discussion throughout Lemmy and other things, I’ll edit my first reply to note my concern is assuaged.

    E: Here are some of the relevant issues and discussion:

  • Rentlar@lemmy.catoLemmy@lemmy.ml•PSA: You can upload images to a Lemmy instance without anyone knowingEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    Fair point. That question itself is what bothers me even if it is a valid one people have on their minds. The answer to that question should highlight more clearly what has been done, and if OP doesn’t know, then IMO it would best be to not include that question/answer.

    I have no problems with OP’s post and the fact to bring up this issue and dicsuss it. Including that question with an incomplete answer bothers me like a clickbait headline for an article does, or how Tucker Carlson’s show asks questions. This serves little purpose but put the people working on fixes in a bad light acting like they haven’t been working on anything.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.catoLemmy@lemmy.ml•PSA: You can upload images to a Lemmy instance without anyone knowingEnglish
    32·
    2 years ago

    I understand and raising the issue and discussion is fine. With all due respect to OP, I take it personally when the discussion is framed with the implication that the developers should not have released a project with some bugs and they should have put more effort here or there. I’ve contributed to Lemmy both in coding, translation and small donations, but I’m not here for people to push blame on devs. This is why bringing up the question “Why hasn’t anything been done?”, while I recognize it is a question on some people’s minds, it gets on my nerves. It bothers me like a clickbait/ragebait title does for many.

    I would rather the discussion focus on where efforts are made or will be made to mitigate and fix the problem.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.catoLemmy@lemmy.ml•PSA: You can upload images to a Lemmy instance without anyone knowingEnglish
    816·
    2 years ago

    How come this hasn’t been addressed before?

    Because pictrs and most other components of Lemmy was designed for a much smaller use case by a very small development team. It was designed primarily by people volunteering their time and expertise. Most of the contributors have other things to do on a full-time basis. If you really want to see a change like this implemented NOW, then code it in yourself, file a new issue directly on their page with potential solutions, or donate to the people working on it.

    Your post is good for the most part, but my patience is limited for the kind of entitled attitude you show under that heading specifically. Thanks for hearing me out.