!lemmy
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Rather than communities being hosted by an instance, they should function like hashtags, where each instance hosts posts to that community that originate from their instance, and users viewing the community see the aggregate of all of these. Let me explain.
Currently, communities are created and hosted on a single instance, and are moderated by moderators on that instance. This is generally fine, but it has some undesirable effects:
I'm proposing a new way of handling this:
The benefit is that communities become decentralized, which is more in line with (my understanding of) the purpose of the fediverse. It stops an instance from becoming large enough to direct discussion on a topic, stops community fragmentation due to multiple versions of the community existing across multiple instances, and makes it easier for smaller communities to pop up (since discoverability is easier - you don't have to know where a community is hosted, you just need to know the community name, or be able to reasonably guess it. You don't need to know that a community for e.g. linux exists or where it is, you just need to visit [yourinstance]/c/linux and you'll see posts.
If an instance wanted to have their own personal version of a community, they could either use a different tag (e.g. world_news instead of worldnews), or, one could choose to view only local posts.
Go ahead, tear me apart and tell me why this is a terrible idea.
When printing conversations in #Lemmy, we obtain a clean readable result, unlike in #Mastodon or #Pleroma where it's crappy.
I'd suggest they talk to eachother to share best practices. :ablobcatwink:
cc @lemmy
@MastodonEngineering @Gargron
Cheers
[Edit: 9 sept. 2024 14:09 CET to clarify what we need as a result.]
For admins and moderators, keeping the comment counts including bot comments visible (especially in a moderators' own communities) may be valuable, but not sure if it's all that valuable for ordinary users.
Would it be possible to make it so bot comments don't add to the counts for regular users, or at least for those that have disabled the display of bot posts/comments? As-is seeing an indication of a comment for a post only for it to turn out to be a bot is slightly disappointing at best, and mildly confusing at worst when their display has been disabled.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2104
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I first became aware of this about 4 months ago.
GitHub issue is 3069:
It would be awesome if we could follow a post to be alerted of new comments added.
As we are at it, why stop with posts? I'd suggest also having such alerts with comment sub-trees would be nice.
I was in a thread in !fediverse@lemmy.world earlier today, and it seems like there is still interest in this feature.
Last I heard, it seemed like progress on this feature is dependent on fixing an SQL Paging and filtering issue.
Any progress on this? Anything we can do to expedite the development of this feature?
We're testing some beta's for the upcoming release, and it had some performance issues, so I had to downgrade and restore from a backup.
We do this testing here so other instances don't have to, and so we can find any bugs before a release. Again, this is my bad, I apologize.
Watch out for that sub. The mods over there don't seem to be in good faith and remove any content they don't like which isn't direct and blatant hate toward religion. If you want to engage in any serious atheist or religious discussion i suggest you to avoid it.
I've got 500+ posts and don't wanna sift through em. Is there a way for me to search for keywords in my profile only. Or filter communities?
On android.
This should be a pretty basic feature, just not having a private message be there anymore. But for some reason that does not work here?
I tried searching for this. I found a year old open issue on GitHub and some reddit users complaining about this very issue.
Talking with some people in the comments here, it seems like some people don't understand that one might not want a message to be in their face. Or the idea that just because something could be recovered doesn't mean we should treat it as an absolute