nutomic
@nutomic@lemmy.ml
Lemmy maintainer. Interested in politics, video games, and many other things.
- Comment on Is there any service that provide a community growth chart? 3 hours ago:
You’re in luck, I just modified the instance crawler on join-lemmy.org to collect statistics for all Lemmy instances. You can find them in this repo in JSON format. Now we need someone to build a tool that can visualize it. The stats could even be shown directly on join-lemmy.org.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Lemmy also has an admin setting like that. Additionally there will be private, federated communities available in version 1.0.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
I made a couple of “Help Design Lemmy” posts in !lemmy@lemmy.ml recently to get feedback and ideas, which was very helpful. I will continue to make such posts to improve join-lemmy.org, and also Lemmy itself.
Had a look at the Piefed signup now, choosing categories like that is a good idea. But the question is how these categories get curated. We have something similar with the instance topics on join-lemmy.org but no one is really helping to maintain them. So for community categories it would probably similar. In 1.0 we will have some improvements for discovery, like multi-communities and a “suggested communities” collection which can be set by local admins.
For the Mastodon recommendation there isnt any good alternative software that I can see. So its probably best to recommend a single Mastodon instance, depending on the target audience.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Not everyone likes infinite scroll, but some apps such as vger.app offer it.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Sounds like you are specifically looking for a client focused on image browsing. In that case I would suggest linking to vger.app, phtn.app or blorp which I linked in another comment. Lemmy 1.0 will also have a card view which admins can set as default, where images are already expanded.
see another interesting post, image to small, can’t see so I have to click – lemmy.ml/post/42501566
This is only the link preview (indicated by the arrow icon), not an image post. Is the icon too small?
- Comment on 1 day ago:
And so you decided to spread that misinformation further, instead of simply replying that it is wrong? I’m also very curious in what ways you consider Piefed’s UI better than Lemmy.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Not true.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Why dont you mind your own business?
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Ah yes because one sentence by someone you dislike is enough basis to judge a different person that you dislike. Why dont you do something useful with your live, instead of hating on people who actually create something useful?
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Nice screenshot by the way, which leaves out 90% of the actual comment. Link for comparison. I wont even get into the other deceptions, you really are true to your name.
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People will always find some excuse to do nothing and stay on Reddit. Whether its Lemmy or Piefed you will only ever get a few people to switch.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
In what ways does the Lemmy UI suck? I would appreciate feedback in order to improve it. For what its worth I only use the default UI on desktop and mobile, and like it a lot.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
For different UI you can linnk people to blorp, vger.app or phtn.app. There are also a lot of mobile apps.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Instead of recommending Lemmy in general, you should recommend a specific instance which matches the audience. For example someone posted about piefed.ca in /r/BuyCanadian. Or you can link to a different frontend like vger.app.
I did make a redesign to join-lemmy.org recently so that new users can reach the registration page with a single click. I am also curious about any suggestions you have to improve the onboarding.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
I am really curious, who is it that goes around and slanders me behind my back? Why do they care so much what a random person on the internet says? And these are just some casual comments in an obscure online forum. Does this individual not have work to do, or friends to spend time with instead of this? So feel free to send me a private message with the username who sends these links.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
No, Lemmy is fine. We may have our personal opinions on our things, but we never let them affect our work. A lot of admins and contributors also keep an eye on it. If you dont like how moderation works on a particular Lemmy instance, you can find a dozen other instances with different rules. As developers we could not even ban the clowns on !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works if we wanted.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
And also most of the things you said are simply wrong.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Bullshit, you are lying.
- Comment on Piefed admin settings that allow to enable or disable content filters (they are disabled by default, see body for details) 3 days ago:
That was a temporary measure very early in development, when moderation tooling was still very incomplete. This was to avoid ending up like Voat. Once mod tools were implemented, the slur filter became optional. Simple as that.
- Comment on Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social 5 days ago:
That feature was part of the development version, and never even close to being included in any official release.
- Comment on Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse 5 days ago:
Defederations and bans essentially work like a shared blocklist for all users on that instance. Plus you get a local feed with other users who have similar interests, and blocked users/instances don’t use local server resources.
Subscribing to a blocklist seems risky, because it’s likely that many users would subscribe to a single, popular blocklist. Then it would become a centralisedpoint of control which can silence people across much of the network.
- Comment on Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse 5 days ago:
You can export your settings, remove everything unrelated to blocks, and share it. Then other users can import the json file and it will be added to their existing blocklist.
- Comment on FYI: Reddit trademarked some community names (Digg link) 2 weeks ago:
This is a new feature to federate some popular communities when a new Lemmy instance is created. Previously it would be completely empty. The development code was hardcoded to lemmy.ml for a while, but I already changed this and made it configurable.
- Comment on If a Lemmy user has the same name as a community, how can I tag the community on Mastodon? 2 weeks ago:
This would make instance creation too complicated.
- Comment on If a Lemmy user has the same name as a community, how can I tag the community on Mastodon? 2 weeks ago:
Its intentionally in this order because Mastodon prioritizes the last item (ie the community). If the order was changed, it would be impossible for Mastodon users to interact with a community where a user with the same name exists.
- Comment on we need more users 2 weeks ago:
That is true. I made a post just now to gather suggestions for improving the website, please have a look and comment if you have any ideas: lemmyverse.link/lemmy.ml/post/41719890
- Comment on we need more users 2 weeks ago:
There is nothing preventing apps from providing a registration flow. For example Voyager has it. I suppose the problem is again which instance to choose for signup. You can discuss this in lemmy.world/c/boostforlemmy or lemmy.world/c/lemmyapps.
As for multiple Lemmy apps being available: Most of the current Lemmy users came here in 2023 when Reddit locked down the API and killed third-party apps. Thats why a lot of apps are now available, and everyone can decide for himself which one he prefers.
- Comment on we need more users 2 weeks ago:
Good point, I made a PR to use biased random sort again that we had in the past, so larger instances are always shown near the top.
- Comment on we need more users 2 weeks ago:
The logic it uses is to hide any instances with more than 30% of all active users to prevent centralization, just like you say. There are also some other filters like requiring at least 5 active users.