Lemmy is a decentralized platform that uses ActivityPub to offer an alternative to Reddit, but I’ve come to the conclusion it’s lacking serious development....
and therefore my critique is obviously unfair to sone extent: who am I to point out what’s wrong with Lemmy?
But you didn’t cite that. Is there a reason to leave that out of your citation?
You’re completely missing the point. Going back to Reddit isn’t contradictory, because the number of users far exceed the downsides.
Good to know it’s possible to delete an account. Did you actually try it or are you only looking at the user interface? Because I know there’s a button. That’s not the issue.
Nobody thinks it’s a good idea to improve education, medical care, urban problems, rural poverty, transportation, Medicare, Medicaid and labor unions? Right?
Some OPs are commented to with a large number of comments. It would be nice to get a visual indication how many new comments were added after the last time the OP was opened and (when the OP is opened) see what comments are new.
Timmermans is a very important candidate in The Netherlands that is having snap elections in November after prime minister Rutte finally decided to not run for his party once more after thirteen years of neoliberal governments.
It’s an ideal moment for Timmermans to switch, because waiting until EU elections would mean he could not participate in the upcoming elections in The Netherlands.
That would likely mean the neoliberal VVD or farmer’s party BBB would become largest and might even form an (extreme) right wing coalition just like happened in in several member states.
It’s probably better for the EU that Timmermans switches now.
I think the chances are significant that Timmermans becomes prime minister (The Netherlands is a Kingdom and has no president like France).
A Dutch prime minister usually is an elected member of parliament that is a member of the political party that received the most votes. The reason is that the largest party has the first chance to form a coalition and the largest party gets to appoint the prime minister if a coalition is formed. In theory an outside person might also be appointed prime minister, but that has never happened in history.
Yes, division of the political landscape is a problem in The Netherlands as well, but the new right wing farmer’s party has more left wing social standpoints than the more conservative right wing party of current prime minister Rutte. The farmer’s party is mostly upset about environmental changes that are required due to nitrogen deposition caused for about 50% by livestock. Timmermans already had a meeting with the farmer’s party leader in his role as EC commissioner and that didn’t result in some enormous backlash of problems. So that might be a sign the farmer’s party is open for negotiation about nitrogen, as long as farmers aren’t squeezed into a tight and speedily process to reduce nitrogen emissions. Timmermans is very knowledgeable about the topic and can probably work out some scheme where both benefit somehow.
The other reason why this is the time for Timmermans to leave the EC and try to become prime minister is that the green party and Timmermans’ social democrat party have decided to run with one joint election list with candidates and (as we know as of today) Timmermans as leader.
Many people think Rutte’s party will finally not be largest after all these years, but indeed, that still doesn’t mean it’s easy to form a coalition.
Hello, I’m having trouble logging into the lemm.ee instance on the vger.app site. I was previously able to log in without any issues on the old wefwef version, but since the update, I’ve been experiencing difficulties. I’m hoping someone can help to resolve this issue, as the Voyager (wefwef)is one of the best third-party...
It is a limitation of a PWA. A native app (wrapper) will likely be coming though, and a custom Capacitor plugin could theoretically interface with the native API to switch out icons. Theoretically. No promises though :)...
Interesting. But that’s more like the Mastodon favorite I guess. And considering the heavy Mastodon/Kbin similarities, that’s not surprising of course.
There’s also a downvote and upvote section, but those are all empty.
I’ll deliberately try to downvote your comment to see what happens.
Edit: indeed, there’s no downvote. Just one less upvote. How does this work?
Edit2: I’ve undone my downvote and now two favorites show again. But what’s weird is that my downvote simply removed the upvote of the (first?) upvoter of your comment. Is this really what Kbin does? You cannot start removing upvotes of random other users can you?
Yeah, I agree this unwanted behavior of Lemmy. It’s a variation on ‘security by obscurity’. It’s ‘social security’ by obscurity. Except that it isn’t obscure at all.
I didn’t know Kbin users could see the upvotes, but I’ve just discovered that kbin users only see favorites. Just like on Mastodon.
Check out the Kbin page @banaflip shared in another comment. You can see who upvoted your comment under ‘activity’. If you upvote my comment, my comment favorite count increases with one. And you can see you are one of the ‘upvoters’ under favorites.
If however you downvote my comment, one of the favorites appears to get removed. By you. Even if you didn’t upvote before. At least, that’s what I think happened when I tried this on another comment.
Set your Interface Language to your main spoken language
I already had selected them all including undetermined, because I want to read and reply in any language.
If your Interface Language was already set, the issue you have replying to comments can be related to the language of the parent comment or post.
That’s what I think, because it only happens now and then.
As @UnanimousStargazer mentioned in their comment, if you try to reply to a Undetermined comment/post in Lemmy via browser (not Voyager) it just shows a spinning loading button when you hit Post.
That’s my own comment.
A work around is to reply to the comment directly on your Lemmy server via a web browser (not in Voyager), and select a language other than Undermined on the dropdown near the below the text field of your comment.
That’s what I indeed did.
The parent comment/post issue is with Lemmy rather than Voyager, but Voyager are tracking the issue here.
Might I suggest Proton sets up their own Mastodon and Lemmy instance? But in such a way that only employees can get an account.
That way, the accounts are instantly authorized. And you don’t use bandwidth paid for by volunteers and donations.
Proton owns and uses the proton.me domain. Which means it should be possible to setup for example social.proton.me. That way, Proton could create their own Mastodon accounts:
[Opinion] Voyager developers should first spend time on Lemmy development to fix fundamental issues
Lemmy is a decentralized platform that uses ActivityPub to offer an alternative to Reddit, but I’ve come to the conclusion it’s lacking serious development....
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[Feature request] Highlight or indicate new comments as a new comment
Some OPs are commented to with a large number of comments. It would be nice to get a visual indication how many new comments were added after the last time the OP was opened and (when the OP is opened) see what comments are new.
[Feature request] Visual indication that a subscribed community has new content
Lemmy communities by default offer RSS as an alternative way to subscribe to content and quickly get insight into new content that was published....
Frans Timmermans bids to return to Dutch politics (www.politico.eu)
Login Issues with Lemm.ee instance on vger.app Site (lemm.ee)
Hello, I’m having trouble logging into the lemm.ee instance on the vger.app site. I was previously able to log in without any issues on the old wefwef version, but since the update, I’ve been experiencing difficulties. I’m hoping someone can help to resolve this issue, as the Voyager (wefwef)is one of the best third-party...
Senate report about the Rental Contracts for Independent Time Act published today
Senate has started processing the Rental Contracts for Independent Time Act (Wet vaste huurcontracten)....
Is it true that a social media platform that allows anonymous downvotes has the potential to become a toxic environment?
Should social media platforms only allow upvotes or favorites?...
Voyager might become a native App in the future! (sort of)
It is a limitation of a PWA. A native app (wrapper) will likely be coming though, and a custom Capacitor plugin could theoretically interface with the native API to switch out icons. Theoretically. No promises though :)...
If I understand correctly, Kbin users can see what Lemmy users upvote or downvote their post. Is that correct?
I stumbled upon this issue on github:...
100 upvotes on Reddit is 1 upvote on Lemmy
At least that’s my calculation right now
Problem posting your comment. Please select a language in your lemmy profile settings.
I think it’s very unclear what this error message wants me to do....
Is this the official proton community?
In other words, a community where proton does official announcements, such as downtime for maintenance, new services and so on?...