Bring back people getting excited about stuff.

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[–] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (21 children)
  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (17 children)

    Wow, piefed is looking better every day

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    I wish it had a dedicated Mobile app. Or a PWA (Progressive Web-App)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    If you mean something that could access all of its features, the reason that isn't happening yet is because the back-end API is still very minimal. But they're working on it, and the progress so far is amazing!! 😍

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    is still very minimal.

    I wouldn't call it minimal, most of the features are available

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (9 children)

    I thought that things like combining comments across all cross-posts, categories of communities, user-customizeable and shareable feeds, ability to block all users from an instance, etc. were not supported yet.

    Perhaps "minimal" is the wrong word though: maybe "basic" would have worked better, with most of PieFed's most well-known and touted features not having been included yet, unless I missed it and they are now?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    IIRC most of those things are available in the API, now it's on the app devs to support them in their apps.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (7 children)

    Oh wow I definitely missed that announcement, that seems major news that the API has improved that much!! (Especially in so short a time)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    Oh but that's 1.4 alpha, while PieFed.world is still on v1.1.5-10-g927213a1 - it's not only waiting on app devs! Plus I could understand if app devs wanted to wait for more than read-only access to such information. Anyway it's progressing forward quickly and that's appreciated!

    And I hope that the webpage method of access does not get forgotten as well, as sometimes seemed the case with Lemmy where so many apps would have features that the basic UI lacked.

    Right now on PieFed the too-wide comment boxes still breaks the entire page sometimes (like the top bar won't even render) and the Preview ability is still hit or miss - e.g. I noticed while editing a comment yesterday that I could not preview how it was going to render, from a desktop browser. So I hope the standard web UI continues to be shown care and attention and becomes more polished.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    Piefed.world seems lagging behind, I asked the admins yesterday when they planned to update, no answer yet.

    Rimu just announced a new feature in the 1.4 API: https://piefed.zip/c/piefed_api/p/684281/poll-and-event-posts-in-the-api#post_replies

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Lemmy.World was also notoriously behind so it tracks that they want to ensure maximum stability before updating:-), not aiming to be at the bleeding edge of having the most features.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    1.2.6 could be an option, with 1.3.1 being out already.

    Piefed.world doesn't seem that popular anyway compared to Piefed.sociak https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    And compared to PieFed.zip:-).

    Probably most people who joined Lemmy.world did so because they did not want to understand how federation works prior to joining an instance, and then simply did not want to move later.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Is this one negative enough for you? 😅

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Haven't been around in awhile, is mbin officially dead or is it still being actively developed just without much use?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Kbin is dead. Hopefully Ernst is himself not physically dead, but has stopped contributing. It was quite the fiasco as Kbin.social had to be defederated from since it was sitting un-administered and thus being used to spread spam across the entire Threadiverse.

    Kbin's fork Mbin is still going strong, though with fewer users as time passes. There is even an app for it now: Interstellar.

    It serves a very niche area though, where you want to interact with both the microblogging style Mastodon on the Fediverse and also Lemmy+PieFed on the Threadiverse (with newer additions being added e.g. nodeBB and flarum) using the same account rather than dedicated ones for each platform. Personally I feel like the UI is too geared towards the former and ignores what is much more commonly observed in the letter. Plus it follows Ernst's trends to rename every little thing where e.g. downvotes are "reduces", except it's more complicated than that bc downvotes themselves still exist - except they don't, in that they don't affect the sorting (or maybe that was the reduces?) - plus they are now publicly visible, except again they are not (actually "boosts" are, reduces are not, and I forget whether they are or not for up and downvotes).

    Even at its peak it never topped 1k monthly active users (according to this site), so compared to Lemmy's ~35k the ~0.7k users of Mbin are practically unnoticeable.

    PieFed is the new hot thing, with many features that Lemmy lacks, and some even that Reddit itself does not have. It is still being polished but its pace of development is extremely fast! 😁

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I was just thinking to myself it's been so good around here, YPTB has barely had any activity for weeks.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Have you not blocked the negative instances? Most of what I see are positive posts, or news articles.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What's a downvote?

    This post was made by beehaw gang

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Even if its displayed it's not tracked here, and with federation even if it were tracked it'd be useless/out of date.

    It's even more meaningless than the other site and every time I see someone talking about it I want to tell them to go back there if internet points mean so much.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago*

    Bring back people getting excited about stuff

    Have you not seen the posts about Valve's new Steam hardware? Excitement everywhere!

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    I haven’t noticed this. And I browse all. If you’re encountering that much toxicity there may be a common ingredient…

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    I can't even see downvotes

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (20 children)

    I haven't seen a negative post in months.

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  • [+] -18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (19 children)
  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (18 children)

    Please elaborate I’m out of the loop

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Brand new account, owner was probably banned for trolling or shit

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  • [+] -12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Heaven forbid Lemmy acquire new users.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Read the comment again and tell me that's the comment of a new user on their first day 🙄

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Lemmy is just like every other community that has a narratives it agrees with and if you disagree with it even a little you get brigaded. Tankies in particular in my experience

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    you get brigaded

    Ah yes, someone is going through the effort of gathering people to downvote you. That makes more sense then it just being individuals disagreeing with you.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    You're welcome to think that. I don't really care

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Is the irony of you being so toxic being evidence of my point completely lost on you or are you leaning too far into trolling?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    Your point was about brigading, not about toxicity.

    Is the irony of you being too sensitive about my disagreeing with you evidence of my point being completely lost on you?

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Stop brigading me!!!

    Yeah, I'm being sensitive lol

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    First you need to make up your mind if that post is me being sensitive or me being toxic.

    (Hint: it's me being sarcastic)

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    How are those mutually exclusive things?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

    Maybe I'll create a community too, for what I don't know yet.

    UPDATE: maybe like a consultancy group for making minimalist website, like the ones you see on Neocities

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

    I disagree that people should always leave a comment as that is going to both cause more arguments over small details and if there are many downvotes then it is going to basically spam their inbox.

    Sometimes it is nice if one of the downvoters explained if it wasn't obvious, but sometimes the comment is just so bad that explaining is worse than a bunch of silent downvotes.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    Nothing was said about requiring it, but I agree that it's a bit annoying when there's downvotes without anyone justifying even a single one of them.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    The downvotes also clearly seem to mean different things to different people.

    Generally I think they're just used for spam, extreme racism/homophobia etc, cruelty, bullying, or offensive content - but some people are clearly just chucking them around willy-nilly for very little reason.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    People having reasons that don't align with yours doesn't make them willy-nilly.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Sorry I wasn't clear, I mean that some people (I assume) use downvotes just to mean "I don't agree with the thing you said" rather than "this is extremely offensive/cruel/horrifically bigoted/spreading dangerous misinformation" etc - even on something really minor like "I prefer this tv programme to that one" or "I like this foodstuff made in this way".

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Some people do use it to mean they don't agree with the thing that was said. Heck, I will down vote certain comments because they are a detriment to the conversation even if they aren't misinformation because they might be derailing or ignoring the context of the conversation.

    I also down vote some comments for being unnecessarily rude even if I agree with them.

    I just have a low bar for what deserves up and down votes, but there is always a reason. Heck, I just upvoted your comment to counter a down vote.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    If something is extremely offensive/cruel/bigoted/etc, it probably needs to be reported and not just downvoted... Unless it's some community for hateposting, that kind of stuff is almost always straight up against the community rules.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Bots and bootlickers. Bots and bootlickers everywhere!

    It's also became way too fucking political

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

    I used to post regularly in a variety of spaces about things I was interested in.

    If you post a single thing that a mod has a problem with, you get instantly banned from the most empty spaces, like WHY? I post a sfw pic to a comm that is loosely associated because there's no more specific place to post and I get insta banned, why why why?

    Not even disrespectful or toxic stuff, literally just posts that don't meet all the criteria of the requirements that aren't even fucking listed unless you go to the comm in a web browser.

    it's extremely discouraging, and after only after like a year on this space, I'm already thinking about ditching Lemmy.

    Edit: idk who replied, but you're blocked, probably after harrasing me.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    You're tagged on my client as toxic. You've got a modlog a mile long on different instances, different comms, different mods, much of it for being uncivil, advocating violence, etc etc. I'll venture out on a limb and say you're the common factor here.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Isn't it great you can just open up a log that lets you delegitimize the concerns of others? Such a lazy and malicious way to think and behave.

    Too bad none of that has to do with my post.

    None of my posts about my interests were uncivil.

    Also, if you can't interact in good faith, I'm just going to block you, too, like the other people who whine at me with invalid arguments.

    You clearly responded here because you felt you would get dopamine being malicious twoards a valid target, you didn't come here to have a conversation.

    Are you capable of refuting any of my claims without invalid personal attacks to get off?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Isn't it great you can just open up a log that lets you delegitimize the concerns of others?

    You mean isn't it great that there's a log that lets everyone publicly tell when someone is lying about why they were banned or if the mods/admins really are being terrible?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    I didn't lie about why I was banned

    You want to pretend I don't have valid experiences by looking at irrelevant shit. -_-

    If I made this comment on a new account you wouldn't be typing

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    If I made this comment on a new account you wouldn't be typing

    I would check the modlog for anyone making posts or comments about their ban--especially brand new accounts--exactly for the reasons I mentioned previously. Either the user whining deserved it or the mods are abusive and that is exactly why the modlog is public.

    And other than the bans from the AI comms, all your bans are because you jump straight to insulting everyone when pressed on anything. So yeah, you did plenty.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I don’t know if some of them are just new to being mods or if they’re crusty, clenched long-time mods but yeah I’ve been banned for absolutely the stupidest reasons here.

    Moderating isn’t really fun, so you have to have a lot of people who want to do it, and Lemmy’s still finding its people.

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