Yep, which is why you don’t need to throw out the knife lol

Interesting thought experiment lol, what’s the difference between the knife stabbing a human vs an animal (meat)

I wish they would just allow 3rd party share menus, like launchers

For anyone who wants to follow the GitHub issue

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4039#issuecomment-1858728555

Not necessary, 0.18.5 didn’t have any database changes. But even if there were database changes, upgrades run the upgrade scripts sequentially anyways.

There’s a discussion here https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2631

@UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee

Other apps are currently just polling for notifications every hour or so, works fine for now

Another issue with Reddit is that you can’t comment or vote in old posts because they become archived. Even if you could comment in them, it wouldn’t matter because Reddit doesn’t have a sort method for new comments like Lemmy does, no one would ever find it

yes Mastodon allows you to follow Lemmy users, here’s mine for example

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@Die4Ever@programming.dev

and as you said, communities work too

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@stauf_mansion@lemmy.mods4ever.com

I wonder if this will change when voters are counted as active users for communities, how that will affect the scaled sorting

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4235

so basically you’re saying that it might be difficult to find an instance for your account that federates with the community you want instead of just signup up on the same instance as the community you want? that does make sense

although you could look at the posts on the front page of the instances community and see what instances those users are from, or the instance sidebar could have some suggested instances for creating an account

but yea it could be a little awkward

I’m not sure what you mean, don’t they already have that power?

I’m just saying that Lemmy is a software not a website or service, it’s a bit unfair to assume that everyone running the Lemmy software will host all of the content from different sites, you don’t see this issue with Reddit because no one else is hosting the Reddit software

It’s something we could improve, but I also think that it’s not right to suggest all content hosted on any Lemmy should be visible on every other Lemmy. I mean the users who enjoy the Beehaw community probably aren’t interested in seeing Hexbear content anyways, so this is actually a good feature for them. Each instance admin should have a target market/demographic that they want to appeal to, so they curate their content to match that for the optimum experience for their users.

Similarly Reddit users probably wouldn’t like it if all 4chan content was mirrored to Reddit.

the issue is being tracked here https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3069

the issue is being tracked here https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3069

Or rather, “content not found in their single instance is not present in Reddit as a whole at all”.

That’s the point here - it’s true for Reddit but false for Lemmy, as content available in one instance doesn’t need to be hosted yet again in another.

“Content not found in lemmy.ml’s single instance is not present in lemmy.ml as a whole at all”

It’s not like Reddit represents the entire Internet, IDK why you’re giving them special treatment to exclude content without criticism.

But we are working towards more tools that will allow for defederation to be less needed and hopefully just a last resort. Remember Lemmy is still alpha software.

I do think we need defederation to be separate for communities, posts from users, and comments from users. I could see it being useful to allow the communities and posts from and instance and only banning their comments. Or have default ban lists (of instances, communities, users, posts from instances, comments from instances, etc) that the admins set and users inherit from but can customize personally.

Your feed depends on which instances yours is federated with. So you either deal with the fact that you won’t get content that you’d otherwise want, or you register into multiple instances to check multiple, partially overlapping feeds. One by one.

I think soon you’ll be able to block all the users of an instance but still see the communities from that instance, but yea instance admins should be able to separately choose to defederate the users or the communities

storage issues (raising the requirements for people to create their own instances), and it’s a big liability (cue to CP being posted to LW, and every single admin team removing it from their own instances).

I believe v0.19.0 has the option to disable storing remote images and instead proxy them on demand (I think the proxy might also have a temporary cache to help)

@haxor@derp.foo

https://derp.foo/u/haxor

You could just use !hackernews@derp.foo

I know it’s a bot driven community but somehow they actually pulled it off. Lemmy users are actually leaving comments and voting over there.

There’s also !hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans but it seems like a less active version of the same thing

On Reddit we had r/hardware which was great for this

Here we have !hardware@lemmy.ml but I haven’t checked it out much yet

yea people get drowned out by these bots and they feel less inclined to contribute. I know I was less likely to leave a comment on Reddit when there were already many comments. I was less likely to post on Reddit when a subreddit was already getting many posts. I post and comment more here on Lemmy because it doesn’t get drowned out. If we wanna grow then it needs to be natural, not via bots.

everyone do yourself a favor and go to your settings page and uncheck the option for “Show Bot Accounts”, it’s unfortunate that I can’t keep the few good bots visible but there’s just too much bot spam now.