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Something fun on the point about dark / light modes, the screenshots on this page swap between dark and light versions when the site theme is toggled
I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer to use.
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Note: I’m moderating a handful of communities in more of a caretaker role. If you want to take one on, send me a message and I’ll share more info :)
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Something fun on the point about dark / light modes, the screenshots on this page swap between dark and light versions when the site theme is toggled
The home page is here, and the Get Started
button links to it
We cut down on a lot of text from the initial drafts, so we can bring some of it back if the start is too jarring
Yup it did, we mentioned it here but I maybe we should make it more prominent? That video was one of the better explanations that I have seen so far, and there were a few things that we thought would be good to highlight on top of what it mentioned
This isn’t really a federation problem, and more that there isn’t a clear “winner” yet.
Even on centralized platforms, you end up with multiple communities for the same topic, until one of them grows enough to beat out the rest. Then eventually a scandal might cause it to fragment again. There are also separate communities that keep going independently because of ideological differences. See the various international news subreddits
The movies communities here were like that, but now there is a pretty clear “main community”
New Reddit gets a lot of complaints too (loading issues, freezing), but it’s aimed at Reddit as a whole since newer users don’t know that old Reddit is an option.
At the same time, if I only ever used new Reddit, I would also think that old Reddit looks wrong
It’s also less likely to happen now. Back when that happened, users didn’t have the ability to block instances and so it was up to the admins to do that for everyone.
It’s now possible to block instances at the user level
Also, the ux is pretty much the same as Reddit.
The default one is a bit minimal, but we have many Alternative UIs are as modern looking as new Reddit.
They also work much better while being modern looking. There’s a reason so many of us came over here when they got rid of third party apps, the new Reddit interface is… bad.
How does this compare to Bookwyrm, or say Trakt?
Congratulations! Looking forward to trying this :)
hey it looks like you posted a few times. Two of them have discussions already, but maybe you can delete this one?
For astronomy there is !astronomy@mander.xyz. The communities on mander.xyz are STEM focussed and usually well moderated.
You could also try
As for the instance, stay wherever you feel most comfortable. I have a few alts on other instances, including lemmy.world. You’re also free to move later if you decide to.
If it helps I am based in the UK.
You can also check out the instance / communities at
In case that link doesn’t load for some users: https://framapiaf.org/@debian
You might be better off looking for a community where the moderation optimizes for that kind of discussion (ex. Removing low effort comments, requiring citations, academic oriented, etc). It’s harder to find an entire instance that matches those points, but there should be a few communities like that
Then you can use the subscribed feed only, or block the communities you don’t like
tempted to set up a cheap forge in my garage
Cool! Do you have plans for what else you want to make?
I think this might be the self hosted guide?
https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy-Cloud/blob/main/doc/DEPLOYMENT.md
(Swapped the link)
I should have linked those, thank you!
There are a few browser extensions that can detect RSS feeds, which can help when they’re not advertised openly
Past that, this add-on was decent:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/feedbroreader/
If you’re into self hosting:
It does help with it though
For profit platforms have more of an incentive to keep the bots going, for engagement reasons. Non profit managed ones should want to get rid of such bots?
Well, whatsapp has stories also, but I don’t see people using them. I don’t like to give my phone number to everybody. And it is very easy if someone has a profile, to look them up and send a follow request. That stuff you won’t find with signal stories.
That’s a good reason yea
Though, pixelfed lacking stories should be possible to overcome right, given the protocol. If two users can handshake, and the instances accept the handshake, then they should in theory be allowed to send each other stuff. Like, in other fediverse platforms you can also send private messages
The problem I think is that we can’t guarantee that the other federated instances will respect the private setting, or the risk that other instance admins might be snooping on the posts.
A proper E2E solution would be ideal
We can do that, which page do you feel needs it?
For example we moved some of the Lemmy introduction content to the detailed explanation page, and we can move more.
For some of the topic specific pages, I was thinking that anyone who was linked to the page might have already have gotten a brief TLDR from whoever linked to it