nutomic
@nutomic@lemmy.ml
Lemmy maintainer. Interested in politics, video games, and many other things.
- Comment on peertube recomendation algo alpha build 23 hours ago:
Algorithms are definitely needed to discover good content. There are some good videos on Peertube, but its very difficult to find them due to all the low effort spam. Lemmy also had different algorithms from the beginning and no one ever complained about them.
The problem with algorithms used by Reddit, Facebook etc is that they are completely intransparent, and include factors which dont benefit the user, such as “engagement” or advertising. As long as Fediverse algorithms are focused on benefitting the user and are transparent there is nothing wrong with them.
- Comment on Mastodon to Lemmy post formatting rules questions 2 weeks ago:
Lemmy dev here. Making the same post to multiple communities is not possible, so you need to post multiple times tagging a different community each time. Links are taken from Activitypub attachment, but Mastodon only seems to support image attachments. So it is not possible to add other types of links unless Mastodon adds an option for that. Markdown would also have to be supported by Mastodon.
There are various other microblogging platforms on the Fediverse which may support these features and may be better suited to your purpose. For example Hometown, Pleroma, Misskey or Mitra to name just a few.
- Comment on What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
Thanks, good to know.
- Comment on What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
It could be backported, but there are now significant changes between the 0.19 and development branches, so it would take some work.
- Comment on What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
Fair enough, its just a bit strange that this particular critique comes up regularly.
- Comment on What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
Keyword filtering is about to be merged into Lemmy. Other features will also be added over time.
- Comment on What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
We are working on new moderation features all the time, for example 1.0 will correctly federate instance bans which is quite complicated to get right. There will also be a plugin system which allows for much more flexible mod tools. Its just that our time is very limited for all the work that needs to be done on a project with over 50k active users.
- Comment on What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
These performance results are only from the browser side, but dont cover server performance. The database for lemmy.ml is 60 GB, and that is with 6 years of history. Not sure where your 10x claim comes from. The lemmy.ml server costs 70 Euros per month and doesnt have much load.
- Comment on Federated wiki software? 4 weeks ago:
There is an API so you could write a script to import any kind of data.
- Comment on Federated wiki software? 4 weeks ago:
Its similar to Lemmy in many ways, so like Lemmy posts are redundantly mirrored across instances, the same is true for Ibis articles.
Getting Wikipedia federated would be great, but it will take a long time for Ibis to be ready for that scale.
- Comment on Federated wiki software? 4 weeks ago:
For now my focus is to make it federate with Lemmy and the rest of the Fediverse. But you’re welcome to open an issue for that kind of feature.
- Comment on I reckon this is the usage distribution of Lemmy servers that we'll end up with. 4 weeks ago:
Lemmy’s AGPL license doesnt allow forking the code into a proprietary server. All changes need to be open source as well, otherwise the operator can get sued. So a proprietary Lemmy software would have to be developed from scratch which would take a long time.
- Comment on Federated wiki software? 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for linking my project. Im happy to answer questions about it. Also here you can find the git repo.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update 1 month ago:
Your improved onboarding features sound very useful, and Im sure other Lemmy admins would also like to use them. Do you have a repo link so that we can add it to the mod tools list on joinlemmy? (at the bottom of the page)
Also congratulations on becoming a parent, it will definitely change your life in a good way :)
- Comment on [PSA] Lemmy account deletion is a mess 2 months ago:
Originally account deletion would always delete your posts, comments and everything. This was changed in 0.19 to make the content deletion optional (otherwise a lot of posts and comments would disappear unnecessarily). Unfortunately we forgot to add the new option to the user interface for 0.19, but it was added probably around 0.19.4.
Its hard to say why the federation didnt work properly, maybe there was a network error, or a bug in older Lemmy versions that got fixed in the meantime. Or there is still a bug which only happens in some cases.
- Comment on [PSA] Lemmy account deletion is a mess 2 months ago:
When deleting the account did you mark the checkbox “Delete all posts, comments and uploaded images”? Lemmy.world is running an old version so its possible that this is missing.
- Submitted 2 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Be the change you want to see in Lemmy 2 months ago:
That would take a significant amount of work to implement, and we dont have the resources for it. But all the code is open source, so youre welcome to give it a try yourself.
- Comment on Be the change you want to see in Lemmy 2 months ago:
We haven’t banned anyone for trying to contribute. If you’re talking about bans from lemmy.ml, that doesn’t prevent anyone from contributing on Github. Besides, the whole purpose of Lemmy is that there can be different instances with different moderation policies.
- Comment on Be the change you want to see in Lemmy 2 months ago:
There is usually an about page with the source link, or the joinlemmy apps page usually has a link.
- Comment on Be the change you want to see in Lemmy 2 months ago:
I definitely plan to read the Silmarillion, because the history of middle earth sounds so interesting.
- Comment on Be the change you want to see in Lemmy 2 months ago:
Its best if you improve the existing site, that way you dont have to worry about hosting, or directing users to your new site.
- Comment on Be the change you want to see in Lemmy 2 months ago:
I dont think its a good idea to give money to Google or Bing for advertising. It would make Lemmy appear like a commercial project and give false expectations. And we barely have enough money for development so in my opinion money its better to donate. However if you have money and want to spend it on advertising, nothing is stopping you from doing that.
- Comment on Be the change you want to see in Lemmy 2 months ago:
Are you referring to join-lemmy.org? It has a randomized order for the instances, so usually smaller ones are near the top.
- Comment on Be the change you want to see in Lemmy 2 months ago:
Instance topics are defined here: github.com/LemmyNet/…/instances-definitions.ts#L1…
- Comment on Be the change you want to see in Lemmy 2 months ago:
I do, although the sections in Mordor are a bit tedious to get through. But its worth it for all the details that were left out of the movies.
- Submitted 2 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 106 comments
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 months ago:
Like I said you’re welcome to make pull requests. Lemmy is not a corporation employing multiple designers, but an open source project run by volunteers. So if you want to see something done, it’s best to do it yourself.
- Comment on Onboarding experience needs to be simpler for mass adoption 2 months ago:
Who gets to decide which instances match that description? Everyone will come up with a slightly different list.
- Comment on Onboarding experience needs to be simpler for mass adoption 2 months ago:
Pull request welcome!