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Cake day: July 26th, 2023

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  • Names are a discrete and contested domain and honestly I don’t see how Lemmy being also a person is a hindrance. Coke is also a drug yet no one complains, certainly not the big corpo.

    Protip: you can search for more than one word on search providers. Something like “lemmy social” or “lemmy server” for example.





  • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgtoFediverse@lemmy.worldwe need more users
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    7 days ago

    too complicated

    Nani? It’s 2026, getting an account on some lemmy and start posting is nearly two orders of magnitude easier than trying to sign up to an email account!

    That people are brainrotten due to excessive Fortnite and Instagram is, unfortunately, not our problem. At some point, the answer is “just get better users”.



  • 1.- and I’m going to emphasize this a lot.

    PAGING

    (or at least some concept in the vein of “show only a finite amount of information at a time”)

    Lemmy does it well, but Mastodon sorely requires it for example. Anything that induces the pattern of autorefreshing, auto-filling, constantly changing timelines only empahsizes the addictions that antisocial media is working with already.

    2.- More and better reactions than simply “upvote” and “downvote”.

    A upvote or a downvote can mean things in different categories, from “I don’t like this” to “this is uninformative” to “this is misinformative!” to “enough Musk spam!”. Condensing and factoring such results into how threads are found and sorted artificiates any or all of popularity, consensus and usefulness. So, being able to “react” (add a singular tag to a message without the need for a reply) to a message with more options than “upvote” and “downvote” would be useful. I’d count at least three axis (axeses? switchaxes?) that are useful to gauge: “agree - disagree”, “informational - misinformational” and “verified - debunked”.

    3.- Global, or at least shareable and moveable, user identity. Won’t comment on this more because others already cover it enough.

    4.- Fucking decouple instance identity from DNS. DNS is the layer that big corpo will rein in next, depending on it to validate who an instance is is playing an eventually loser game.



  • It’s not wrong to want to reward someone for providing an above-baseline service, which is what we (usually) can at most do here. Among other things, they are literally asking for someone to hold their hand. That’s instruction-level commitment, not just “passerby internet comment”-level commitment, and I see it as fair to both request the service for a price and provide the service for a price.