andrew_s

@andrew_s@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PieFed, a FOSS Feed Aggregator alternative to Lemmy, but faster⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh okay. Might be though, in the future, if platforms (like Sublinks) get released - it's not really a relevant issue at the mo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PieFed, a FOSS Feed Aggregator alternative to Lemmy, but faster⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I couldn't really do justice to his opinions about things like that. I just replied because I recognised your name, and wanted to let you know that the software / instance wouldn't be a good fit for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PieFed, a FOSS Feed Aggregator alternative to Lemmy, but faster⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  They must have been talking about the Lemmy devs (the main PieFed dev is a lefty but no-one has ever accused him of being a tankie). To give you an idea: piefed.social blocks lemmygrad and hexbear, but it also block hilariouschaos (set up by the old exploding-heads guys).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PieFed, a FOSS Feed Aggregator alternative to Lemmy, but faster⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You can't, no. PieFed and Lemmy are operating in similar spaces, but are completely different architecturally. PieFed doesn't yet have an API. Unlike Lemmy (and a lot of other modern web platforms), it doesn't need one to operate, so copying Lemmy's to the extent that you'd be able to plug in something like Voyager would be overkill. It would probably also be against the TOS for Voyager (Jerboa actively prevents it's use with anything other than Lemmy, even if the API is the same).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨community not federating⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. Funnily enough, my comments are coming through to Lemmy as 'Undermined' too (just a PieFed bug, easily fixed), so the fact that you saw it (as well as the comments by the others I mentioned) means it's not a language thing. That's good, in a way, because it should be physically impossible to actually de-select it.

  So, sorry - at least we can rule one thing out, but I don't have any more suggestions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screenshots of texts from other social media are pretty boomer-ish⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe, but image posts drive more engagement than text ones. You can see on !lowqualityfacts@lemmy.zip that the text posts, which are no worse LQFs than any other ones IMO, score noticeably lower.

  I like sites / Lemmy frontends that provide some kind of 'teaser' for text posts (they also show a bit of the post's body in the main feed), meaning you can often see both the feed line and the punchline for a post without going into it (it works well for 'dad jokes' for example). But the default frontend - lemmy-ui - doesn't do that, so it hobbles the potential of text posts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It has happening. If you look for news of, e.g. "Arnold Schwarzenegger endorses Harris", most outlets just say 'X'.

  In my results, The Guardian, the BBC, The Independent, Fortune, MSNBC, The Washington Post and The Hill just used 'X'. Politico said 'on social media'. Only Forbes did the 'formerly Twitter' thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A community to find or validate facts. You can also share other works of similar fact finding⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There used to be one - https://lemmings.world/u/communitylinkfixer

  It looks like it was de-activated 3 months ago.

  If you make a new one, please consider limiting it to just this community (and maybe communitypromo), and to not translating a link if the OP has also already provided a ! one, and to not translating links inside code blocks.

  Drive-by bots can seem easy to make, but the problem is that they can be a bit too easy, and then end up as yet another annoying one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Conversations like this are why I want more people, especially "normies", in the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That comment chain demonstrates a real appeal of Reddit. Even for something like a post-episode TV discussion, a critical mass of people means that not only can you have the discussion in the first place, but there might be some extra info from someone who worked on the set, or attended an audience taping.

  You can click to see the rest of the comments to see plenty wrong with Reddit too, but it's not like there's any particular drive to prevent the elements of Reddit culture that I find annoying from coming to Lemmy too.

  I'd be surprised if there's ever a critical mass of people on a federated app though. If there is, it's more likely to be on something with the proper funding, that hides the details from regular users (e.g
  it'll be BlueSky, not Mastodon). On Reddit, Lemmy has a reputation for being too complicated, for the mundane reason that is. Too much stuff that should happen doesn't, and the answer to why are the stuff that 'normies' don't want to hear (LW and PD instances are both a bit unstable atm), or they're so unintuitive that that they'll need answering forever (e.g everything around discussion languages, instance blocks, newly-discovered communities , etc etc).

  I've just seen a user accidentally submit the same post to the same community multiple times (the worst I've seen is 4 times). Preventing that is some real 'web dev 101' shit. Federated apps can be an interesting hobby for inexperienced devs (like me), and mildly diverting for anyone who wants to use them as a user, but a critical mass of users?! Forget about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microblog posts that are adjacent to a sub but won't qualify as a thread there⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm assuming that this is about your earlier post that ended up in LW's technology community. Microblog posts like that seem to be more intended for whoever is following you as a user. If MBIN insists that you also have to choose a 'sub' then I think it'd be best to put it in whatever it considers a dumping ground (ideally something that doesn't federate out), so the 'random' magazine sounds about right to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is a filter for muting Lemmy 'power users' possible?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This feels like something that would be scriptable using Lemmy's API - see https://lemmy.readme.io to view and demo the endpoints.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My blog now has Lemmy comments⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Neat. It took me a while to realise what was going on: the post on Lemmy and the blogpost are two separate entities. The Lemmy post is a link to the blogpost, and the blogpost uses the post_id to fetch the comments (so I guess this means you have to make the blogpost, make the Lemmy post, and then go back and edit the blogpost with the correct id?)

  The script is inspectable on the blog - I can see it does:
  const url = 'https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/comment/listpost_id=21617067&limit=100&max_depth=8&sort=Top&type_=All';

  So I suppose there's an inbuilt limit for comment depth and number of replies, but if you start down the road of working on that, you'll eventually find that you've re-invented a front-end, and there's no end to it.

  What the duckquill guys are doing is a bit fudgy, in that they're getting another website to do the federation legwork for them, but the results are pleasing enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peanuts - A community for posting about the Peanuts comic by Charles M. Schulz⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you type a ! link using lemmy-ui, it auto-completes it so that MBIN sees it as an absolute link to the community on midwest.social (Blaze's link is without the auto-complete). Lemmy, like Mastodon, can be a bit "fuck you if you aren't us" at times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Add any RSS feed to any Lemmy community⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, right. I was confused by this before, but I understand it now after reading yours and Otters answers, and seeing https://rss.ponder.cat/c/medicine@lemmy.ca - the bot posts to its local version of a remote community, and it federates out like it it normally does.

  Am I right in assuming that - API wise - the bot only interacts with ponder.cat, and doesn't make calls to the remote instance? (I'm wondering if there's any barriers to it operating with communities that aren't on a Lemmy instance).

  Does the bot resolve the human first, check what they moderate, and then resolve the community if they moderate it, or just always resolve the community, and then compare its moderators with who made the request? If its the latter, this could be a way for bad actors to crowbar a community onto your instance (assuming it doesn't purge it if things don't match up, of course).

  What would have happened if Otter had sent /add https://lemmy.ca/feeds/c/medicine.xml medicine@lemmy.ca ? Would this be like that time when someone put 'google' into google.com, and the Internet blew up?

  Thanks.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨feddit.online will live on as a PieFed instance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That's a different Jerry! (Jerry Bell)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He's posted before that Day 1 sales covered the cost the device itself, so a decent chuck of everything after that will have been pure profit. It was probably always doomed, what with YouTube being YouTube, so it doesn't look like he's too shaken up about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HBO should use a different bumper for streaming.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  HBO Max, for the brief period of time it existed, had a more fitting 'bumper'. Hacks, which started out as a 'Max Original' still had it in season 3, but The Penguin, which was a Max Original until it wasn't, has the fuzzy version (I've had players that struggle with it a bit, but I doubt HBO gives a shit about the quality of my experience pirating their stuff)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Network Rail: Twenty railway stations affected by cyber-attack⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Poor old Northern Rail - they only just got WiFi in the last couple of years (that's not even a joke).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered - Announce Trailer | PS5 & PC Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought the Last of Us 2 upgrade, so I can't really criticise anyone buying this, but I've played this game to it's absolute death - had every conversation, completed every mission, even played through on the hardest difficulty to get all the trophies - so I can't imagine ever playing it again. It's Guerrilla Games' own fault - if they hadn't made it so good, they could have had an extra tenner from me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub - WinampDesktop/winamp: Iconic media player⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Crikey - it was only added a few hours ago and it's already all kicking off on their GitHub's Issues page.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mars brings Marathon name back in UK as nostalgia rises for retro sweets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I've finally fully mourned the loss of the 'Marathon' name to the clearly inferior 'Snickers' - bring 'em back at the size Marathons bars were, that'd be a thing!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any communities dedicated to product reviews?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All the other comments except from that one are from alien.top (Reddit users turned into bots), which your instance is defederated from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Manual hobbies - active communities promotion thread⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  textiles/needlecraft combo projects: !bistitchual@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Games - weekly active communities thread⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Trailers: !gametrailers@lemmy.wtf

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Matrix let-down⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I've only ever used Element for Android. The source is here: https://github.com/element-hq

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Matrix let-down⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In my experience it looks like a case of matrix clients not doing a good job of communicating that things happening in the background haven't finished yet, and throwing generic error messages (a bit like lemmy-ui does sometimes).

  I've been able to join invite-only rooms on other instances - it said 'failed' at first, but when I went back later it turned out that I had actually joined.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post upvotes are like github stars⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it's the strange thing about engaging post titles - people seem to be so busy answering them, they 'forget' to also upvote them. In contrast, a meme that's funny but about which there's not much to say, is more likely to get an upvote as some kind of compensation for the lack of discussion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are some peertube instances/channels not being federated with lemmy.world⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy and PeerTube hasn't worked for a few months now - you'll have to fetch the vids manually if you want 'em.

  There nothing wrong from PT's end - they fed with PieFed (e.g. https://piefed.social/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel@tilvids.com), MBIN (I believe), and Mastodon, but some change in Lemmy broke something.

  Old post about it: https://lemmy.ml/post/15180175