I have to admit, I don't really think I would use Reddit if old.reddit.com went away, the "new reddit website" is slow, and ugly, and fits very little content on the page. It seems it's largely optimized for posts which contain shallow content like "cat pictures" memes and other rubbish not meaningful discussions. I appreciate RedReddit, due to the fact I can fit many posts on my screen. Reddit also requires quite a bit of moderation as there is a lot very low quality content posted there. It's quite a tiring process.
I think a lot of people are in the same boat, whether it be old.reddit or a third party app. I am one of those myself and I have a really hard time using the new version of reddit on either their phone app or new website. Hence why I'm here along with a lot of other people.
Same, old reddit was fine on desktop, though still suck on mobile so I rely on Boost on my Android. There are some great communities on Reddit (patientgamers, bodyweightfitness, to name a few) that would be sad to lose.
For them it's likely about value of accounts, how much data they can sell, and they will hope that non-tech communities will carry people's "addiction". A bit like an abusive ex "you can't leave me because you'll lose XYZ" so now they've resorted to reining in anything that dare reduces or inhibits maximum revenue stream.
That is exactly the reason. The idea is to let someone else hold the bag, and "oh well" if they figure out they paid more for it than it was actually worth.
I have to wonder how much Reddit will actually be worth when it's just the site of cat pictures and crappy memes. The quality of Reddit dropped significantly when they changed all the default subreddits, this is going back to the days when "old reddit" was "normal reddit" (around that era).
Fidelity has cut their valuation of Reddit (not related to the API issue). The IPO is probably not going to go nearly as well as they'd hope. The market is still wary of social media investmenting.
True. But I'm seeing a few familiar active names including yours here now. There seems to be a core of a community. I have not seen that before here on Lemmy. So maybe one can hope and do ones part bycontributing some activity.
I'm using Jerboa, which works well, & seems to be the only android app available at present. There was another Android App, called Lemmur, which looked promising, but is no longer maintained, & no longer works...shame.
Jerboa is still an early build, but definitely worth another look, there is an option in settings, to alter the main font size, not sure how effective that would be at improving the experience..
I’ve just installed Lemmur, can’t seem to log in on it though
That is because Lemmur is no longer maintained and the log in process is broken in that app. It was a great app when it worked, but now you cannot use it unless someone updates it again.
Wondering, maybe hoping, someone involved with the Lemmur app, might pick it up again, & push on with it. I think with the latest 'reddit API bollocks' another app would be very welcome..
It ceased development, the dev states that on github. But anyone can fork it and revamp it, the code is neat and only needs to be updated to the latest lemmy version.
I would kill for Apollo to support a federated platform like this instead, and I hope he considers it. I use Apollo exclusively when accessing Reddit on mobile, and given the choice between it and literally anything else, I'd rather just stop using Reddit on my phone entirely lol
May I just say, I love all these test... it works comments/posts here and there :D Seeing someone figuring out a new piece of technology is for me a unique and satisfying experience.
This feels like a strawman. It's one thing to use some apple because you must but another to embrace it to the point of using their facial thing as your profile picture (which could be construed as indirectly endorsing it).
The entire thread is an ad hominem debate, so I was simply not engaging with it seriously, because "you use a profile pic made on iOS" is a statement which has no relevance to whether I know about privacy or can open a privacy community on Lemmy.
Could be a good point about indirectly endorsing it though, in reality it was just the first picture I saw in my folder of profile pictures I choose from. I'll probably switch it out 👍
There seems to be some bugs with federation here and there.. for example there are lots of interesting communities you can subscribe to, here are some of them: https://lemmy.one/communities/listing_type/All/page/1
These will all work and they would show up on your front page if you enabled your front page to work like that in your settings. However some are mastodon accounts and who knows what else, it's not super clear.
That one you linked does work (now, apparently). I’ve noticed search can just be slow the first time you search for something on a remote instance, usually when you refresh and search again it shows up.
Tragically, I was looking into this this morning only to find that the sole iOS app is no longer available. Android is really spoilt for decentralized social media apps 😆
iOS has an official app for Lemmy called Mlem. It’s currently in beta testing but it’s open to any one that downloads TestFlight and accepts the request.
This looks pretty good so far, and I'm glad to be here and pseudo-anonymous!
Absolute newbie here so bare with me: I'm seeing a couple features I'm used to from reddit that aren't present. Where do we go to learn more about Lemmy? Is there anywhere to put feature requests? Mods available to be added? My old experience with stuff like this was back in the Invision Power Board and phpBB days.
I see threaded replies can't get collapsed in this thread - that was useful for browsing. on reddit.
Also no downvoting of comments, just an upvote button?
You might want to check out !lemmy_support for asking questions, and !lemmy for reporting bugs and requesting features :)
Mods available to be added?
Not sure what you're asking here? About creating communities (subreddit equivalent) and adding mods for them, see my comment here: https://lemmy.one/comment/536
You can collapse comments, it's just not really intuitive, click this button:
Downvotes are disabled on this instance, because it is a very small community. If you see something against the rules, report it. If you see something you don’t like, go find something you do like and upvote that instead :)
I may consider changing this in the future.
If you have more questions about this instance, lemmy.one, generally, you can also ask at https://lemmy.one/c/meta.
Awesome dude, thank you. This was very helpful. I was curious if we could deploy mods and stuff into communities but perhaps I'll spin up my own instance and give it a go to learn more about it.
Edit: By mods, I mean similar to some of the modificationss I deployed to old forums back in the day when I was an Admin. Guess it probably doesn't work like that here.
How does voting work across federated instances? I appear to have both up and down vote buttons, since I'm viewing from another instance, do they not actually work? Otherwise, what prevents trolls from other instances from brigading a thread?
Downvotes just don't work inside communities hosted on lemmy.one. They might work on your own local midwest.social instance, I'm not sure, but if you downvoted my comment here nobody would be able to tell on lemmy.one, and nobody would be able to tell on other federated instances like lemmy.ml or beehaw.org, because lemmy.one simply would not federate that information to them.
Do you think disabling downvoting will work? While it does encourage people to just downvote things that are already downvoted, the alternative is that you have no way to mark bad/lazy/rude content that isn't actually worth reporting, and you end up in the Facebook-like situation of low-effort stuff filling the space. Hopefully this won't happen while the community is small, but that will probably change eventually!
Don't know! We'll evaluate it as we go, I don't have an issue with enabling them if it's clear that not having them is problematic, but I also don't think people need a negative indicator to know not to engage with low-quality content.
Do you know if it's possible to hide all upvote/downvote scores on comments? I've often wondered if that would kerb the "groupthink" as people wouldn't be pre-influenced by the number, but it would still allow sorting by popular and filtering-out of mass-downvoted comments.
Lemmy does not have this feature as of now. You could create an issue for this feature on Lemmy GitHub. Alternatively, you can solve this by locally hiding the elements in the UI that display score with something like UO's element picker easily after only a minute of figuring it out.
It's not a configurable option. Maybe with a custom interface change, but I'm not convinced that making changes to Lemmy.one that remote users don't experience is the best move.
Looks interesting so far! I'm using Jerboa and it's pretty nice.
I think that multiple communities existing for the same topic across many instances has the potential to confuse some people. I'm sure one or two will emerge as the most popular for each topic, but still.
That is both the advantage and price of being decentralized. Not locking anyone to only one instance/server with only one option for a community on a certain topic is important. However, it creates a much more complex and for some newcomers (who do not understand what federation is) hard to navigate and grasp concept.
Okay, exactly how does a motherboard know how to request a file on the internet? Does it communicate with the drivers on the computer? And if so, wouldn't the drivers be responsible for the download, not the motherboard itself?
Maybe this is just splitting hairs, but I want to understand the process
Microcontrollers can perfectly fine initiate connections and download stuff, and there's plenty of those on a motherboard. I'm not sure if that's also the case/flow here, but it could technically be.
Edit: Many modern UEFI BIOS's can also initiate connections and check for updates themselves.
Does this mean that desktop computers are sending (or at least can send) your Wi-Fi passwords from the OS into the motherboard firmware? I don't know if I want them to do this at all, but if they must, I hope it's being done explicitly.
I just realized there was actually a linked article and... The way they actually do it seems worse.
Eclypsium automated heuristics detected firmware on Gigabyte systems that drops an executable Windows binary that is executed during the Windows startup process.
This executable binary insecurely downloads and executes additional payloads from the Internet.
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