My thoughts are mostly that I wish this were integrated in Lemmy because of a couple reasons:
People might be interested to see comments, see that there’s one in a thread only to realize it’s a bot
The sorting algorithm of lemmy makes no difference between bots and users so it can give a much higher importance to posts which attract bots (namely news)
It has support for specific news sites, I don’t want to rely on some automatic text extraction because those are prone to breaking. Here are the content extractors themselves, each for one site. If a post that contains a link to any of the supported sites is found across all of Lemmy (that the bot can see), it extracts the text and then summarizes it using this. It takes 6 sentences directly from the article that look most important to the machine learning model it uses. Then it posts it as a comment.
That title is a bit misleading. Reddit mods might have stopped protesting, but the news of the implosion was quite significant. The existence of Lemmy is a testament to this. I don’t think their IPO is going to be as strong as they had hoped. That financial impact is quite opposite of the victory they claim to have achieved.
Also, the posts on Reddit and the responses have declined in quality in my opinion.
It’s a frequently requested improvement, you are not alone. But there are no workarounds that I’m aware of either. There’s enough apps out there that maybe one of them has better handling of hidden posts… but I follow a lot of lemmy app news and I haven’t noticed any reports of it being done well.
one of the mentions that you added to your post (along with thelinuxEXP for some reason) makes it appear in a Lemmy community that’s focused on Linux news, not screenshots.
Someone posted this over on Reddit right when it happened and I apparently saved it. I’m cleaning out my bookmarks and came across it. I hought you’d like to see why it’s good news that we found Lemmy....
Just a little rant. When I first visited Lemmy Sites a couple of months ago it felt empty. Besides the really mainstream community pretty much everything else just felt empty....
I agree somewhat, I think Lemmy has a way to go though because there are some real big headlines that seem to be missing from Lemmy on certain communities, and often a lot of posts with 0 comments or very few. I know it’s early days but until Lemmy is a reliable source of news for my various hobbies I’ll still be using Reddit alongside. At least on Reddit for all it’s flaws, if there is something big happening in a certain scene, it’ll be there. It’s a one stop shop for all my information.
Since the API change RiF was still usable in logged-out mode, however, it’s now consistently not loading posts anymore. They recently updated the “logged-out user experience” (see link below), which may have also been used to finally kill any RiF stragglers....
My advice: reply to 7-21 day old posts! Go to !chat, !askbeehaw and speak your mind! !chat needs more posts too! OPs there still tend to respond to those posts.
Lemmy is first and foremost a link aggregator you know. So it’s not surprising there are a lot of news links. I think each community is different in terms of the percentage breakdown between news, discussion and meta-discussion.
I don’t have a clear idea of what you’d want out of Lemmy, but I’m open to hearing it for ideas to make an effort to make Beehaw a livelier place that I could try contributing to myself.
Edit (2023-08-07 T 08:50 Z): It occurred to me that I forgot to directly mention traits that might bias what I offer. On top of a general confidence and enthusiasm for Beehaw, I’m also a moderator for !creative and !askbeehaw. I strive to keep things balanced and outside of my biases, but it feels right for me to explicitly bring that up for transparency.
I can respect it’s a tough issue to put briefly, but I think I get what you’re putting down. “Our content isn’t diverse enough”, I suppose? “We have too much news and not enough anything else”? I 'unno, but I get the impression that you’d like to see more content that isn’t news. I’m not too sure what to make of conflating that with “a more positive, uplifting, inclusive place”, but I’d think it’s got something to do with “negative to downright doomscrolling doomerism.” Do let me know if I missed the mark here or there and I’d be down to talk that out, but I’m confident enough in that perspective to run with it at least for an initial comment.
And, welp, yeah. I think there’s some truth there. What’s up with that? I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s people with a better read of the room, and there’s definitely people that are more properly active than I am, but I’d like to say I’m passionate about Beehaw’s fundamentals and continued success. Hopefully that’s good enough to say I have some theories as to what’s up and what we can do about it.
I’d wager there was a sort of honeymoon phase with Beehaw and the Lemmy fediverse with the initial API scramble and Reddit following through on that. I’d also wager that honeymoon phase has been over for a few weeks now. So now we might be doing things like spending less time on Beehaw than we first were, or taking off the rose-tint shades that often come with a honeymoon phase and realizing that Beehaw’s means and ways has imperfections and drawbacks just like any other platform inevitably does.
Put another way, finding a positive sounding community is easy. Engaging and creating that positive sounding community is harder.
I’d think that the Reddit migration is also going to bring elements of old habits from Reddit, both in Beehaw and in people accessing it through federation. I think that Reddit’s content leaned pretty heavily on news, so it wouldn’t surprise me if a fair chunk of Reddit migrants continue to lean into posting news content.
I’d imagine that our federated activity amplifies that aspect. !technology is a pretty good example of this. Our site sidebar stats say we clock in around 12.7k registered users. !technology has 34.2k subscribers, and that’s not even considering federated users that might be lurking or posting without subscribing. There’s like a whole 'nother Beehaw and a half in there. Admittedly it wouldn’t surprise me if these federated users are less in touch with Beehaw’s values or intentions. That’s not a knock on those that go through the due diligence to inform themselves on how we like to do things, but Lemmy makes the barrier of entry for federated users a pretty low bar without granular ways to raise it.
This is all to say that we, as in Beehaw users, might not be as active as it seems, and that something is gonna take space.
Regrettably I’m not so sure if there’s an easy answer to this. This runs the risk of coming off a bit like a smartass answer, especially because I wouldn’t call myself a bastion of activity, but I really do think it’s the best means to help resolve this issue: use the thing the way you’d like to see it used.
Create things and share your progress and end product. Share the cool stuff you excel at, but share the small and goofy stuff and the experiments in other things too. Share the successes, share the failures. Take pictures of neat things you see in person, get the links to cool stuff you see online, and bring us in the loop about it. Give people some discussion and context in your OP’s body—some hooks to help egg on conversation, if you will—and find ways to get in the conversation down in the comments.
I was hoping to get more active after my vacation at the top of the month, but I’ve been swamped with family errands and it’s been a bit of a bummer. But I got some neat photos burning a hole in my pocket, creative projects I’m itching to get back to, a few neat links to share, and ideas of topics to talk shop with in a community or two. It’s been a kind of epiphany rocking around my mind, thinking about how to generate community engagement. We could talk days on end about stuff like our philosophy, gray areas with content, community activities, or indulging in Tea. I’m starting to think that the most powerful solution to engagement and content issues is both the easiest and hardest: just get busy posting. Gotta plant flowers in the garden to bring in the bees, y’know? 🐝
i think my first personal action towards that is to stop giving a damn about trying to aim for “Prime Time” and just start posting, even when its O-Dark-Thirty by US hours 🥴
I think the main subs are at a sustainable level, but not the niche subs. But Lemmy needs more than just politics and general news and complaining about Reddit to sustain itself.
If you think all bots should be banned, then good news! On Lemmy, bot accounts are (should be) labeled as a bot, and in your profile settings you can disable seeing posts by bots.
I have used YouTube, Reddit and Mastodon for news related to certain topics. Now I want to be more independent in finding my own news sources. However, there are so many sources on the internet I wouldn’t know where to begin to find them by myself.
I have used RSS before and didn’t like it felt like I was wasting my time scrolling through I kid you not thousands of news topics just to read through only a couple of them that I found interesting now I use Twitter, YT, and a little bit Lemmy as a news source I don’t care that much about being up-to-date with the latest news I read whenever I feel like it
Now that we have clients like geddit that don’t use the api, might a logical next step be to try to create a lemmy instance and/or bot that mirrors posts from reddit to lemmy?...
I repeat: geddit.social (this instance) is not a client. Nor is this community about that. You are confused between two different things called “geddit”, neither of which are alike. We have nothing to do with them.
This website - geddit.social - has nothing to do with the other - unfortunately named - reddit client for Android, nor are we affiliated with reddit in any way, nor do we code anything that accesses reddit. I promise, we aren’t lying to you. You are confusing two different things based on a similar name. You can go ahead and argue the point with me but your suggestions are not going to reach their intended audience & you’ll be wasting your time.
Here’s the difference:
That app, also named geddit, has a github page, which you’ve mentioned. Did you look at their about section? It’s on the right side of the page. Humour me and go look. Did you notice the website that is listed there? You might want to open it and check…because this isn’t it. The two couldn’t be more different visually. This website has dark mode on default. That website has a blindingly white background. The difference is extremely striking.
This website (geddit.social) is a Lemmy instance owned by stux (you may have heard of the cat who runs mstdn.social, masto.ai, mastodon.coffee, among other fun services), which is an open-source alternative to reddit, linked to other services such as Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc in something called the Fediverse, which you appear to be familiar with since you’re posting from another Lemmy instance (lemmy.sdf.org). In fact, if you actually go to our website, geddit.social (humour me and go there, I’ll wait), there are links at the bottom of every page that explain this is a Lemmy instance, just like the one you are using to post here.
Once again, that app and this website (geddit.social) are completely different entities (one accesses reddit, the other does not) and only share a similar name. We aren’t an app or a client, let alone do we have anything to do with reddit. This is a website. Not an app. People use Lemmy apps to access this instance. Lemmy is a Fediverse server software that other apps access. I couldn’t make the distinction any clearer. The name for this instance was chosen when we had no idea anything similarly named existed. It is just an unfortunate coincidence.
You are posting in !geddit - which is a community (on the geddit.social instance) about the instance itself (where we post news all our users should know). Nothing to do with anything that may or may not share a similar name. This is a completely different entity.
Once again, no, this website is NOT a client for reddit. In any conceivable sense. Nor do we have such a thing here.
I didn’t need to block communities when I first started lemmy, but then predictably became necessary as time passed so went block crazy and now feed is easier again to try and find intersting communities when browsing all over news agregators.
Currently I’m on iOS, but I took this news to whip out my S10. Sync was always my preferred reddit client. Great to see it working on Lemmy now as well. Works great! Unfortunately it’s not on iOS so won’t be using it much
I’m using a web app (brave mobile browser) to view Lemmy. Android is set to dark mode and all the apps respect that setting. I have never visited Hacker News with this browser.
That being said: why the fuck would Asahi go with a Red Hat distribution!?
EDIT: found the setting that was causing the problem: “night mode” was activated by default on Brave.
Yep that’s pretty much it. While I value seeing the most important news in each category, I could also get that through my normal interactions on Lemmy and other places.
It’s nice to have a regular feed I can fall back on
What new Lemmings joining the party see (lemmy.world)
The rules for bots (docs.beehaw.org)
After some discussions in https://beehaw.org/post/6945406, we came up with the conclusion we should adopt rules surrounding bots....
The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won. (gizmodo.com)
See own posts when “hide read posts” is on?
I can’t see my own posts in my profile. However, when I disable “hide read posts”, they do show up....
I am looking for an RSS app
An app that is open source and can extract the page content in a simplified “Reader Mode”.
This is real: Investing in what makes Reddit unique: Introducing Contextual Keyword Targeting and Product Ads - Upvoted (www.redditinc.com)
The corporate and advertising jargon reads like something utterly obscene and wrong....
This is real: Investing in what makes Reddit unique: Introducing Contextual Keyword Targeting and Product Ads - Upvoted (www.redditinc.com)
Someone posted this over on Reddit right when it happened and I apparently saved it. I’m cleaning out my bookmarks and came across it. I hought you’d like to see why it’s good news that we found Lemmy....
Lemmy is slowly getting better
Just a little rant. When I first visited Lemmy Sites a couple of months ago it felt empty. Besides the really mainstream community pretty much everything else just felt empty....
RiF is finally dead?
Since the API change RiF was still usable in logged-out mode, however, it’s now consistently not loading posts anymore. They recently updated the “logged-out user experience” (see link below), which may have also been used to finally kill any RiF stragglers....
I am become death, the destroyer of Mac and Windows (lemmy.world)
I like the web app more. (lemmy.world)
Beehaw lacks community
Apologies for the clickbaity title or for the messy wording to follow. I’m not great at articulating myself....
It Took 23 Days for Lemmy Posts to Double from 1 Million to 2 Million (lemmy.world)
Source: lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=90
What does everyone think of bots on Beehaw?
How do you all feel about bots?...
How do I find news without using Social Media?
I have used YouTube, Reddit and Mastodon for news related to certain topics. Now I want to be more independent in finding my own news sources. However, there are so many sources on the internet I wouldn’t know where to begin to find them by myself.
Reddit to Lemmy Bridge
Now that we have clients like geddit that don’t use the api, might a logical next step be to try to create a lemmy instance and/or bot that mirrors posts from reddit to lemmy?...
What are your favorite lemmy communities?
Is there any community or communities you like the most?
It's so nice to see them all growing, but this is just the truth, sorry. (lemmy.ml)
[It is LIVE!] Sync for Lemmy - Apps on Google Play (play.google.com)
Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix - Asahi Linux (asahilinux.org)
Meta to end news access in Canada over publisher payment law (The Guardian) (archive.is)
Move comes in response to Canadian legislation requiring internet giants to pay news publishers...
What are your favorite news sites?
Regardless of the kind of news. I’m working on a TLDR bot and I’d like it to support the most used sites on Lemmy.