nutomic
@nutomic@lemmy.ml
Lemmy maintainer. Interested in politics, video games, and many other things.
- Comment on Niche Communities won't be able to reach their true potential until lemmy adds a sort that takes engagement into account. 4 days ago:
If there are still problems you should open a new issue. We cant leave issues open forever because they go stale and dont account for new features.
- Comment on Men: What sequence do you fellow to dry your body off after showering or bathing? 2 months ago:
Just move the towel around randomly until Im halfway dry. Doesnt matter if there is some water left, it will dry soon enough.
- Comment on Mbin instances 2 months ago:
Big words from someone who posts anonymously, and who never contributed anything positive to the internet.
- Comment on Mbin instances 2 months ago:
That’s only one developer, but you were talking in plural. What other Lemmy dev are you referring to?
- Comment on Mbin instances 2 months ago:
I haven’t seen that community before. Some people have way too much time on their hands to keep posting about things they dislike. But at least it proves that censorship on Lemmy is impossible, when not even us developers can do it.
- Comment on Mbin instances 2 months ago:
Wait, when have I ever denied any genocide? I barely even discuss politics at all.
- Comment on What happened with active users on Lemmy? 2 months ago:
Or even some logic to automatically exclude from the list any instance with more than x% of active users.
- Comment on What happened with active users on Lemmy? 2 months ago:
I posted about this in the admin chat on matrix, but you’re right the pull request was merged very quickly.
The lemmyverse link is also a good idea, but users only see it after filling in their email and password. At that point it’s unlikely that they would cancel it and go to a different website.
- Comment on What happened with active users on Lemmy? 2 months ago:
Right, I didn’t think how it would affect the total active user count. Will have to think of a solution for that.
- Comment on Instance admins, how much does it cost you to run your instance? How much does that represent per active user? 2 months ago:
I pay around 80€ per month for the lemmy.ml server, plus a few euros for image hosting and domain. So that’s around 3 cents per active user.
- Comment on Request to lemmy: can you please allow non-latin letters as well 2 months ago:
I believe there is still an open issue on Github for this, but no one was interested to help implement and test it. So use the search function and contribute!
- Comment on Why did the Lemmy instances stopped upgrading the version they use? 2 months ago:
Not true.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
Right the standard is even more vague than I remember. Unfortunately it’s the only thing we have.
- Comment on The Future is Federated: a Show and Tell (part 4: Lemmy, PieFed & Mbin) 2 months ago:
Mastodon is a more mature software so they probably had more time to work on extra features like cross-platform federation.
You would think so, but afaik Mastodon hasn’t made any changes to federation in years. Which means it is left to other projects like Lemmy to reverse engineer whatever Mastodon is doing and implement that, no matter what the standards say.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#public-addressing
Next time try reading the spec before asking.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
Lemmy actually marks votes as private for federation, but it seems that kbin/mbin ignore that.
- Comment on Private voting has been added to PieFed 2 months ago:
Do you have a link? The Piefed docs page is empty for me.
- Comment on How to make the Threadiverse a nice place and effectively make it grow 2 months ago:
Users need to be approved by a mod before they can follow, browse or post in the community.
- Comment on How to make the Threadiverse a nice place and effectively make it grow 2 months ago:
I could certainly see a feature like this implemented as a plugin. But it would need someone to volunteer for the programming work.
- Comment on How to make the Threadiverse a nice place and effectively make it grow 2 months ago:
I think no one ever opened an issue for such a feature, so please go ahead and do that.
- Comment on How to make the Threadiverse a nice place and effectively make it grow 2 months ago:
Posting links with no attached (body) text
We could easily add a community setting to make the body mandatory. I suggest you open an issue for that.
- Comment on How to make the Threadiverse a nice place and effectively make it grow 2 months ago:
This, now we have school holidays and my kids are home 24/7. Takes a lot of time and energy to keep them entertained.
- Comment on How to make the Threadiverse a nice place and effectively make it grow 2 months ago:
I am planning to implement private communities soon, hopefully it can help with that. Then maybe Lemmy can become an alternative for Discord and other platforms too.
- Comment on How to make the Threadiverse a nice place and effectively make it grow 2 months ago:
I don’t have time to respond everything, but just about the growth part: Before the Reddit blackout happened, Lemmy was stuck with around 1000 monthly users for at least a year. It was quite boring compared to now, in 15 or 30 minutes you could read all new posts and comments for a day. It was also easy to recognize the handful of regular posters (cheers). At that time you could easily think the same, that Lemmy will never grow and people will leave. But then the Reddit migration happened and we got completely overwhelmed with a 70x increase in active users.
It seems to me that growth on the internet always happens with short spurts and long quiet periods. There will probably be a time when people come to Lemmy again and we reach hundreds of thousands or millions of active users. Then we will fondly remember the time when it was so small.
- Comment on How to make the Threadiverse a nice place and effectively make it grow 2 months ago:
Votes are needed to sort the posts and decide which ones are shown at the top of your frontpage. If we add different reaction types, it’s not at all clear how each of them should affect the score. We might come up with some arbitrary numbers, but then the system will get a lot less intuitive and more complex.
- Comment on Mastodon handles lemmy communities a bit strangely, doesn't it? 4 months ago:
This needs to be fixed by Mastodon developers, and I doubt they browse Lemmy.
- Comment on Mastodon handles lemmy communities a bit strangely, doesn't it? 4 months ago:
Mastodon would have to implement support for this.
- Comment on Lemmy is a failed Reddit alternative 4 months ago:
Finally, Lemmy appears to be run by developers who appear to be interested in their own issues and regularly appear to dismiss issues raised by users. This is not sustainable.
I would love to fix all the issues that users report, but for that we would need about ten times as many developers. The way it is we simply don’t have enough time to work on everything, and need to prioritize things.
- Comment on Already 61 servers updated to Lemmy 0.19.5! 5 months ago:
I’m surprised that there are still instances out there running 0.18.2-rc2 or 0.17.0. Those versions are full of bugs and miss so many features.
- Comment on Already 61 servers updated to Lemmy 0.19.5! 5 months ago:
Federation doesnt have many breaking changes anymore. The bigger problem is if a database migration goes wrong, then there should be an admin around to fix it manually. Im sure Wordpress has the resources for much more thorough testing so these things dont happen.