Crossposts are broken in 0.19.4?

I already reported this a while ago and it has been fixed in a newer version. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2441

I never understood the idea behind these kind of automatic slur filters.

First of all, why even allow the comment at all? Why not just remove the whole thing? Censoring just the slur doesn’t help that much and can just be confusing.

Secondly, by filtering the slur like this, it’s less likely that the person posting the slur would be reported and thus no moderator sees the fact that someone posted slurs (unless slur-filtered comments are auto-reported; are they? I don’t know). That’s the opposite of what you want! If you have slurs that should be disallowed, get people to report those that post them and tell people not to do it or ban them if they keep doing it.

When it’s filtered like this and nobody reports the comment, the user posting the slur will probably just continue doing it.

And of course in addition to all the above, there’s the problem that it doesn’t take into account the context at all, which is what leads to the image of this post.

Blocking instances certainly has its place, but keep in mind that it only blocks the communities of that instance. You’ll still see comments from the instance and the instance will still influence your feed via their voting.

It is generally better to choose an instance that defederates from the instances you don’t like.

I don’t think this is such a big problem as you present it to be. Reddit in fact started out with only “All” and only later added subreddits. There are also certain benefits to “all-feeding”, like making communities easier to discover.

I think disallowing votes (down or both) from non-subscribers would defeat the point of the all feed, which to me is to display the most active/interesting posts on the Fediverse right now. You can’t have that if it is only community subscribers that vote.

Also, as far as I know, it is quite uncommon to follow communities on Mastodon, so you’d exclude voting from there potentially. In general, you need to always consider the implication for not just Lemmy but how it works underneath on the ActivityPub level and the interaction with other software.

I think it is to be expected that we have a lot of all-feeding here in the start when there is not too much activity. In short, it requires a lot of effort to use the “all-feed and block”-method on reddit as you would need to block a ton of subreddits. So subscribing to the specific stuff you want is easier. But on the Fediverse there aren’t as many communities yet so “all-feed and block” is easy enough. This will hopefully change as the Fediverse grows.

Maybe you could somehow have both? I.e. when browsing all, take into account all votes. When browsing a specific comm, have a toggle for including or excluding votes from non-subscribed users in the feed. But not sure how hard that would be to implement.

You should check if there is an issue on GitHub for this. If not, open one.

Intuitively, showing both the upvote and downvote count would display the full information. The total and the percentage can be derived from that (and yea humans are bad at maths but you’ll be able to estimate well enough probably).

I also like showing both counts separately so that a +50 -10 post doesn’t appear equivalent to a +100 -60 post.

Could you perhaps show some screenshots of how the different options would look? Preferably on both mobile and desktop. I think that would make it a lot easier to choose.

I’m not sure but I believe from Mastodon’s point of view, you are already replying to a group that is the community you’re posting to. Or tagging that group in a way. So in that way, it is discoverable by looking at the group, at least in theory.

I don’t think any protection is necessary. What you write on the Fediverse is public. Everyone can access it. Companies can use it - but they can all use it, no single company has any advantage. It’s like open source software with open licenses in that way.

So I’m not that worried about protecting the data or preventing anyone from using it. I say use it - just know that everyone can use it. We’re helping everyone, not just one company.

I’m also a fan of Ghibli, but this one didn’t hit the mark for me. But your opinion is just as valid :)

Lemmy.world is still not on 0.19 so it might be missing a big chunk there 😅

That site says about 38k monthly active users. I’m not sure if people who only vote are counted in that number (vote-only users is actually a significant chunk).

I wasn’t too impressed tbh. The plot felt a bit too messy. I liked Across the Spiderverse better.

Same, I prefer lower case. Every other language has keywords in lower case, why do you need to shout when writing sql?

Type signatures help you to know what a function takes and returns. With dynamic typing, I have to read the entire code of the function just to know this (sometimes even this doesn’t tell me what will actually be returned due to duck typing).

More importantly, type signatures help the compiler verify the types.

Both of these get more and more important as the code size increases. I’d suggest you widen your horizon about static typing.