The All-Feed is very important to increase the content-quality of the threadiverse and therefore, ensure its existense. However, for smaller instances, there is only limited reason to put the All-Feed prominent in their UI, because their posts will never be present there. However, if they push people toward their the Local-Feed...
One of the fundamental strengths of a federated approach is that I can, with no muss or fuss, see only my local instance.
I understand where you’re coming from, but you’re presuming that most instances are simply clones of each other, and that’s not true. (or at least that’s not how it’s designed to be).
For example, my home instance is mstdn.ca. Ostensibly, with a single button, I can focus my entire Lemmy experience on things important to me as a Canadian without wasting through everyone else’s bullshit. Canadian news. Canadian politics. Canadian hobbies, etc…
You’re idea presumes that all instances are trying to carry the exact same content, which is false.
Looks promising! Will check it out. I‘m a little wary of lemmy integration since I see lemmy as a forum, kind of. Mastodon makes more sence to me for a blog.
I tried to make a subreddit for a project in the past and it didn’t work at all. It’s just not the best fit for a forum imo except if the project is highly adopted already and discussed. For news and updates, a blog makes more sense.
Because WinRAR is popular and I have not seen it posted as much? My motive was to spread awareness, because of its sheer popularity. I see no harm in this.
This CVE being a month old does not mean its an outdated thing, because the potential of users getting affected is massive. Too many RAR 3.x and older packaged archives circulate around the world, and WinRAR does not automatically update for people, unless you are a techie that uses winget or choco.
I remain on top of such news usually, and if I missed it, there is a very good chance many have. Yes, I see myself as a benchmark of sorts, considering how seriously I treat and advocate privacy and security. If you want to just look good for calling me as a mod out, it is very unnecessary, unless there is some malicious intent or a low effort post being made.
Edit: you say it was posted “a lot” on Lemmy. But I only see one post each on Beehaw and Lemmy.world, which, for a CVE of this potential is… very bad? This news should have been plastered all over in relevant tech subs for maximum awareness.
I went back yesterday to check out the NFL power rankings. They never did a week 0, and they’ve yet to fill probably a third of their rankers. I’m just going to use the ESPN power rankings from now on.
Only reason i use Reddit now is the panel show subreddit, I check in about once a week to see task master news.
Hopefully the British tv Lemmy’s will pick up here.
This is the official Lemmy documentation for text.
I don’t think indented sub-items are possible in a list, but there may be some wizardry I’m unaware of.
Tables are possible, but can be confusing. You might find this helpful.
what is the “URL” field at the top of this post for?
That’s if you want to share a link to a news article or video or something, rather than create a discussion post. Your post will automatically provide a link to that URL, and will also try to generate an appropriate title that you can use if you want (generally by grabbing the title of the page you’re linking to).
How do I make “minor separations”, where you have multiple paragraphs, then a paragraph with more white-space between it, but not like a header or a line. It’s related enough that I want it connect, but separate enough that I want some separation
I’m not sure if it’s exactly what you have in mind, but I find a triple dash to be a good minor separator.
How can I make Paragraphs have indents? (I know they aren’t needed grammatically anymore, but in some cases, a paragraph just doesn’t seem “right” without an indent…
I’m just about ready to give up. I knew Lemmy wasn’t going to be Reddit, but to be honest it feels like everybody here is trying to make something work that isn’t, and it’s exhausting blocking all these stupid fucking communities made for extremely specific weird shit.
Oh and if you haven’t noticed, there’s only a handful of people who are responsible for most of the news and politics posting, they always post certain takes in issues as well. seems pretty suspicious to me and while I know you guys all think we escaped “big media” and the gross amount of state sponsored misinformation on reddit, but I’m pretty sure they’re here already and they are practically running the information communities.
I still think a Usenet like service would be brilliant and it’s a shame there isn’t a Lemmy-like service that has that.
To clarify, what I mean is decentralised infrastructure (you go onto the news server you want) with shared content (ie the same was that every Usenet post ends up on every Usenet server, if that server carries that newsgroup) - it gives all the advantages of federalisation (don’t like your server, just go to another, you lose little or nothing) without the disadvantages of unintuitive discovery and fragmentation.
the glaring lack of college football content on lemmy has been the biggest disappointment I have had. When I left twitter, I couldnt get real time sports news updates, /r/cfb filled that void. There is no comparable community yet in lemmy, or if there is, I havent found it
I use a mix myself. I browse lemmy on mobile with Voyager, and Reddit on PC. Now if lemmy had active communities for my personal interests I’d be more interested, but it’s mostly generic news and such right now
I mean, how many articles do you need that you’re never going to read on Reddit? You can load up Lemmy with enough communities to keep a good feed of news going.
I refuse to use their shitty app, but I still use old reddit on the desktop. If they remove old.reddit.com, I will probably not use it at all.
On mobile, I tried a few apps. Lemmy feels very empty and devoid of content and communities. Mastodon is not that interesting. I feel that hacker news is the best alternative right now. Even though it doesn’t have that many users, the fact that it has a single “community” helps it feel far less empty, and more focused towards technical people.
I still use it via the limited 3rd party apps that are still available, but my usage has dropped by 90%.
Lemmy is mostly fine for news sharing and commenting, but my more niche subs aren’t really built out enough here yet. I’m relatively hopeful that Lemmy will continue to grow, and the non-meme communities will grow with it.
JFC the meme communities are everywhere here. I block all that I find. Maybe that’s how Reddit is now as well, but my subs had been curated and fine toned over a decade so I didn’t see the content I wasn’t interested in.
The RIF app developer now has an app for Tildes called Three Cheers, but I find Lemmy way more comfortable to use, and of course it’s not in beta so there is an actual audience (if small compared to R*ddit). I’ve got it installed and requested access to Tildes when the news about API access came out, so I guess I’ll be ready if it ever takes off. Still worth a look imo, if only for Three Cheers. Sync for Lemmy is excellent as well and so far is my go to.
But, I do have something to say about the lemmy experience. It’s not that there’s less. There is but i don’t think that an issue.
What I do have an issue with is the insane amount of politically charged posts. It’s almost making me return to that other place.
Like I get it, the rich should all die horrible deaths, you’re socialist, not communist, you do support freedom just not capitalism.
Aren’t we all deep down inside socialists?
I mean jesus started it, we’ve been spoon fed it for 2k years. It’s just that We’re all also greedy and egoistic sacks of shit so there are some weaving flaws in that system.
Great. Can we now get back to real content? Let’s not talk about politics. Let’s talk about world issues, Foss, games, books, movies, news (Libya, morroco) I dunno anything but politics.
Politics and religion never unite. Fun stuff and real tragedy does.
I’ve deleted all my reddit accounts and haven’t added any new content to reddit since I switched, Though I must admit I still end up there from time to time when I search for specific things… mostly related to niche topics. I use Lemmy for mindless browsing, news, laughs, etc.
I have. Lemmy is especially good for content geared towards news, tech, FOSS, privacy, memes (if, unlike me, Reddit-style memes are your thing), et cetera. For me, that checks off all the boxes for what i used Reddit for, so when i started using Lemmy, there wasn’t really anything i was missing from Reddit. So, while i’m willing to miss out on some content in order to drop Reddit, i haven’t really needed to.
However, this definitely isn’t the case for most people. If people are just using Reddit for certain things they just don’t see on Lemmy, that’s totally fine (though i hope they’re using an ad blocker or something), especially if they stick around for when Lemmy does start having that kind of content.
Growth isn’t a straight line and there will be points of fluctuation, stagnation, and decline.
I dropped reddit for sure, but can’t say I’m exactly an avid Lemmy user. There just isn’t enough things I’m interested in. I pop in every once in a while but I’ll probably drop this too soon. I have absolutely no idea how I will even get any news, since I don’t watch tv, and that kinda scares me. On the other hand, I started reading books again, which I hadn’t touched ever since I became a redditor
Like a lot of the new users here I too am a former Redditor. I was on Reddit for 15 years, it was my main source of news and information. I didn’t agree with many of the changes to reddit but kept on, till recently when I learned the app I’d been using “Infinity” would no longer work, I guess that was the final straw,...
Telling someone to “just be happy” when it’s not that easy is just like telling someone to “buy not rent” when again, it’s not that easy.
For the latter, it is tho. And since all but a few of yall commenters have been so defensive, it just sort of enforces the idea that you guys HATE being reminded you are living your lives and are in control of it. It’s easier to shitpost on lemmy tho I agree.
News flash bud, it’s not helpful.
If it wasn’t my original comment would’ve been buried without much notice. At least now you’re aware that crying in your bed isn’t a viable option for success.
Also I never said I was 16 yo
Actually you did. I’ll provide the proof after you point out where I said I knew nothing of US housing markets. After that we’ll talk about your earlier comment on the holocaust, that was just sick man.
See, I can be as intelligent as you are :)
Spoken like a person who has never had to struggle.
Getting banned from roblox isn’t a struggle kid. I’ve had my worse moments, but I’m in control and I made it better. It’s literally that easy.
But shitposting is lemmy is way the fuck easier so keep at it. Do NOT make your Lords life any harder, they deserve their holiday at the Bahamas.
Those I know drive tesla and porsche, spend their long holidays traveling the world in expensive places, and have higher entry salaries than management in banks, with larger bonuses.
But apparently you guys know different engineers that struggle to survive… Fine with that. I might know only the lucky ones.
Otherwise we are all proletariat. Which is a news for me. I can finally complain with my “real proletarian” friends that I am as well a proletarian sharing the struggle, although I am definitely not.
Anyway, I will stop arguing. Apparently labeling google engineers as proletariat is an important topic in Lemmy, that users do with extra passion
It’s all over my front page. Even the few that I am subscribed to, I kinda need to be because of the fragmentation. There are 3 main Android communities. If I only pick one, I miss news, but if I pick all 3, I get a ton of duplicate news.
Lemmy is flawed. They need to publish an update where Lemmy condenses these posts into one post with a drop down where you can open and choose which instance you want to view it from. Shouldn’t be hard, and to prevent any issues, allow the user to condense a certain time period. For example, allow me to condense all posts that are the same URL that were posted in the past 6 or 24 hours. Make the most popular post the “main” one, and have a drop down to view the other ones.
I know it’s possible because I used to have an extension to check if any URL I was currently on was posted to Reddit, and if it was, show me every single instance of it. It was useful to see exactly where the news article I was viewing was posted on, or the YouTube video, etc.
I had very high hopes for Lemmy, but the fact I’ve been here for a month before the Reddit API changes, I have seen the clusterfuck that Lemmy has become. There’s no way new users are going to even sign up when the front page is repost city.
Yesterday, you probably saw this informal post by one of our head admins (Chris Remington). This post lamented some of the difficulties we’re running into with the site at this point, and what the future might hold for us. This is a more formal post about those difficulties and the way we currently see things....
Yeah, like… I’m not on beehaw myself, but if beehaw goes, I’d probably end up leaving myself. One of my biggest complaints about Lemmy in general is the lack of special interest communities. There’s politics, porn, general news, technology news (which is mostly complaining about That One Guy), Linux discussion, general memes like you’d see on Twitter or Reddit, and a trickle of more niche memes. There’s a complete dearth of content for niche communities like individual games or special interest hobbies, because the userbase is simply too small to support a healthy special interest community. If Beehaw migrates off Lemmy, it will take a big chunk of that already too-small userbase with it, and the problem will be exacerbated even further. If that happens, I don’t know if it’s worth sticking around.
I’m pretty protective of my online privacy so I have a tendency to make alts rather than allow disparate interests to be correlated to the same user (I’d rather have 3 accounts than a single account that show that I’m a person with my hobby with my career living in my city), so I’ve scattered my lemmy alts all across the lemmyverse (less beholden to instance downtime or an admin trying to correlate users).
There’s a complete dearth of content for niche communities like individual games or special interest hobbies, because the userbase is simply too small to support a healthy special interest community.
At this point, lemmy doesn’t even have much in the way of communities on some mainstream topics: sports, lifestyle/advice, food, cars, fashion, television, film, music, local issues in major population centers, etc. I mean, back in the 2000’s, these were topics that were mainstream enough that they were able to publish printed magazines or even newspapers for newsstands, but we can’t even get a critical mass of commenters for many of these topics on lemmy.
Yes, linux/FOSS and video games and tech are relatively niche interests that do have robust discussion here on lemmy, but that’s mainly a function of who tended to adopt use of the platform. Is lemmy going to be like Hacker News or Slashdot in that it never makes the jump to the mainstream?
We need a new Explore-Feed (similar to Mastodon), which consolidates the All- and Local-Feed (lemmy.world)
The All-Feed is very important to increase the content-quality of the threadiverse and therefore, ensure its existense. However, for smaller instances, there is only limited reason to put the All-Feed prominent in their UI, because their posts will never be present there. However, if they push people toward their the Local-Feed...
ActivityPub 1.0.0 released for WordPress (wordpress.org)
Changelog...
[CNN] How a sea otter became a serial surfboard-stealer (youtube.com)
This has been on the news for a couple of months, but I haven’t seen it on Lemmy yet, so here it is....
[URGENT] WinRAR 0-day that uses poisoned JPG and TXT files under exploit since April (Update to WinRAR 6.23 now!) [ArsTechnica] (arstechnica.com)
This is critically important for everyone and is shared for wide reach.
superior (feddit.de)
Some formatting questions
So, I have some questions about formatting on this site:...
Hypothesis: Insufficient moderation tools lead to instance protectionism, which leads to a decline in the overall discussion quality on Lemmy (lemmy.world)
USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix (www.theregister.com)
BAM! A toxic blast right to the face. (startrek.website)
OC. (as always, feel free to steal any meme I post!)
How many people actually dropped Reddit for Lemmy?
It is possible to estimate?
I'm glad I left reddit
Like a lot of the new users here I too am a former Redditor. I was on Reddit for 15 years, it was my main source of news and information. I didn’t agree with many of the changes to reddit but kept on, till recently when I learned the app I’d been using “Infinity” would no longer work, I guess that was the final straw,...
I'm going to buy a House! (file.coffee)
Credit: Pervis (@PervisTime) - Twitter...
The proletarianization of tech workers (doctorow.medium.com)
archive.ph/hMZPi...
Reddit repost bots are ruining Lemmy.
Beehaw on Lemmy: The long-term conundrum of staying here
Yesterday, you probably saw this informal post by one of our head admins (Chris Remington). This post lamented some of the difficulties we’re running into with the site at this point, and what the future might hold for us. This is a more formal post about those difficulties and the way we currently see things....