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Fedi On Fire (mementomori.social)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

According to the feedback, I just shut down this project, perhaps permanently. Sorry for all the harm I caused.

Anyone know if this harm was anything more than just hitting API limits?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's a pretty strong no-scraping (and scraping-adjacent) sentiment within Mastodon

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

People are upset that the things they posted publicly are viewable publicly?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

The feeling is that simply having it be public isn't an automatic license to re-use or "re-appropriate" the content outside of what's required for normal network functionality. From that perspective, federating a post to a normal Mastodon / fediverse server = OK, viewing that post in your browser = OK, but many other uses = not OK.

This subset of the userbase want the norm for "extracurricular uses" of people's posts to be opt-in only, even for public posts. I kind of envy the idea in some ways (aggressive requirement of consent), though in the world we currently live in, it does seem unrealistic without a team of lawyers behind it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I have no idea.I tried yesterday to figure out what that ment....but the original site is down.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

People really do be needing to look at the Local and Global timelines. There's a lot of chatter about regular, non-linuxy things there.

Honestly, I think I'm completely sold on the idea that the Local timeline should be the default.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Honestly, I think I’m completely sold on the idea that the Local timeline should be the default.

That's already the case for a few instances

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I know. But the post is about Mastodon.

As far as I know, Mastodon doesn't even support assigning a default feed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Misskey forks do, if you are interested

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I love the idea of the decentralized services, but trying to browse global all is a nightmare. Even browsing local all I have a ton of communities blocked and add more every day. The only downside is when communities I like migrate to a different instance. I still try global all once every few months, but it never lasts long.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Subscribed should definitely be the main feed for most people, that's the best way to get a curated feed.

Getting multiple personal feeds would also help.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Discoverability is my biggest issue with the subscribed feed. If I'm using subscribed, I'm not finding new communities. Curating a set of base communities that I want to see does seem like it would be worth the effort, though. Thanks for the suggestion.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

On Lemmy I browse Subscribed until I run out of new posts. Then I switch to All and look for communities to add. Over time I've been spending more and more time on Subscribed, as my list grows.

This post is about Mastodon, I haven't been able to figure that place out yet.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

this is why I usually browse Lemmy in new/comments/all, I just wish it had more than one page at a time or the ability to set more posts in one page

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Photon has infinite scrolling :). lemmyusa.com runs it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hello,

When are you planning to update to 0.19.8?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Here in the next few weeks. I want to ensure nothing breaks, but I really just haven't gotten around to it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

Nice!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Summit offers that, I'd imagine plenty of other clients do too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Pretty much every client I've used doesn't handle hexbear emojis particularly well, so I stick to browser. I'll give that a try though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Summit seems to deal with inline images fine which I would guess covers that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

it renders them correctly - I just checked- but it doesn't show the site-specific emoji picker, it just has a default plaintext one:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I would guess that's because it's not standard Lemmy code, I think I read recently that hexbear uses it's own fork to add things like that

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

This is so cool

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

This is what people didn't want. But it was inevitable that eventually that people would stop complaining about the newest iteration of this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well, not to shit on the idea too much, but right now as of posting, looking at ~100 posts in the feed and the majority are bots, automated posts, or otherwise "brand" posts, not just regular people, and a few are Threads users or bridged Bluesky/Xitter accounts.

Doing a quick label:

That's getting close to the 5k character limit, but you get the idea. This has actually negatively influenced my opinion on fediverse activity. I didn't realize that such a high share of the activity wasn't actually just "normal users".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

I have tried to use Mastodon, and I appreciate what is is, but I just don't see the appeal. It feels like I'm trying to interact with nothing, and no one, ever seeing it. Feels like speaking to the void.