1984

1984, 9 months ago

“There you go, now try to add your stupid bugs. See, you can’t!”.

1984, 9 months ago

Super important to sort by Top 6 Hours. If you do that you will see the currently discussed posts. My feed has quite a lot of content because of this.

And yeah, maybe version 0.18.3 fixed issues with Hot but top 6 hours seems great.

1984, 9 months ago

Well I used it to see that many posts from Lemmy.world doesn’t even federate.

Compare this (pick top 6 hours)

vger.app/posts/lemmy.world/local#galleryopen

With what you see on other instances.

Maybe a bug or maybe caused by stability problems.

1984, 9 months ago

Seems to be a web page only: vger.app/posts/lemmy.world/local#galleryopen

1984, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

This can’t be true. Lemmy world is over 100k users now. And it depends on how many are active.

But yes, it would be very beneficial to the entire lemmy network if many more instances could grow and get active communities. Right now it’s like every community is from Lemmy.world or Lemmy.ml. It’s stupid.

Edit: And I just checked out lemmy.world local… There are tons of posts that doesnt even federate to other instances. So the stability problems are pretty much affecting the entire fediverse now since they are so big.

Look at Lemmy world local using Voyager:

vger.app/posts/lemmy.world/local#galleryopen

1984, 9 months ago

Yeah ok. Well honestly I think it’s absurd that they have so many users and communities, and I hope people take this time to spread out.

It’s almost comic how everyone is on Lemmy.world when there is over a thousand other instances with zero problems.

I recommend Lemmy.today and specially if you are not afraid to post stuff. Would be nice to get some more local conversions going.

1984, 9 months ago

He is not wrong… :)

1984, 9 months ago

I saw this and I really like that they are trying to improve it and innovate. Nothing has happened for a long time in the desktop innovation area since the web took over.

1984, 9 months ago

Lemmy.world is super big AND being attacked constantly. Smaller instances don’t have these issues and they are stable and fast. You can still subscribe to everything from Lemmy.world and your instance will remain up even when Lemmy.world is down.

I’m on lemmy.today and it’s fast and stable. Come join us and you will see.

Basically use the fediverse the way it was meant to be used.

1984, 9 months ago

Don’t use the same username (although you can if it’s available). But try to be a bit anonomous here.

1984, 9 months ago

It’s literally like thinking anne@outlook.com and anne@hotmail.com is the same person. :)

1984, 9 months ago

It would be easier but would remove anonymity and allow user tracking.

1984, 9 months ago

Yeah it’s just getting started, and you can start new communities if you like. But no point starting ones that already exists on other instances.

The amount of local communities doesn’t matter much, Im subscribed to like 100 remote communities anyway. :)

1984, 9 months ago

Oh they did… Yeah I don’t know about microsoft these days, I don’t follow what they are doing. :) But yeah, just making a point.

I think it makes sense to use the fediverse in a semi-anonomous way and not strive for centralized login systems since it will lead to being tracked.

1984, 9 months ago

This should be put in large letters on the join lemmy site so people can understand the point of the fediverse…

1984, 9 months ago

That’s the thing about the fediverse, you need to be the change you want to see. Post a lot and contribute.

I will try and post something new every day to help keep new content flowing in. Can’t expect everyone else to just keep us entertained. :)

1984, 9 months ago

I think probably this is it. Db upgrades are scary as hell.

1984, 9 months ago

Yeah I have thought about that, but I think it’s better to have a lot of content than no content. Of course the optimal would be if everyone posted quality content but maybe it’s more important to just have new content now they Lemmy is growing.

I think if Lemmy becomes very big, there will be enough users that people who want a bit higher quality can just skip the meme communities and all that and opt for better quality communities.

1984, 9 months ago

This ties into site subscriptions as well, and streaming TV subscriptions. We don’t own anything anymore because we just rent it, and then the company can just remove our stuff when they feel like it.

100% agree that it’s time to stop accepting this. Piracy is also growing again, I wonder why…

1984, 9 months ago

Then at least a download option. Even that is not provided in standard formats because people would pirate it. But renting stuff like now feels incredibly wrong.

1984, 9 months ago

I miss cats a lot more than people.

1984, 9 months ago

Thats a nice point actually. Sometimes less is more.

1984, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

I’m on the matrix.org server, it works well. Install something like Element as a client if you like and join some rooms.

Some sample rooms:

• Linux
• Decentralized Web: General
• Neovim

1984, 9 months ago

Me too, there is hope!

1984, 9 months ago

Absolutely. And build web sites where all browsers and operating systems are welcome.