That would be sooo good

I’d like the Reddit style flairs. On communities, mods could set up a bunch of flairs for people to choose from when making a new post. Also be able to assign a user flair.

I think this is useful for distinguishing e.g. questions from debates or memes.

Twitter-style (hash)tags, I understand why they exist but I don’t care for them. Everyone just puts all the tags into every post anyway. Communities on Lemmy serve mostly the same purpose anyway. Like, would technology posts on technology communities have technology tags? Silly.

Long tap works in the last two versions.

But I was hoping you were asking about preview of the actual web site rather than the url, ha. Anyone knows the solution to that? Some apps have a simplifier browser that can view web pages in reader mode.

It works differently on top/day, and top/6 or 12 hours have other differences still, like how they handle showing seen posts and such. It’s not consistent so you can hardly say what is expected. I’m not filing bugs because it’s not the end of the world and devs have other things to do, but yea it is odd.

Sometimes it starts loading more when I scroll some way up and then back down. My guess is, the app is very prone to “network errors” and when it encounters one while scrolling, it gives up.

It’s not the only app or website with this problem… Damn scripts.

But I think there’s also something about Lemmy here. For example, when browsing “top/hour” posts, at some point it stops loading as if there’s a hard limit.

Sounds good, but with how the Fediverse operates, you’d be sharing all your information with everyone. It would need to be a lot more secure and reliable than it is.

There’s no push notifications in Jerboa.

I’m blocking a couple hundred. But it happens that a comm I’ve blocked becomes unblocked - idk what’s going on.

could have come off as weirdly fetishizing

Another trap one can easily fall to even for just being friendly

don’t really like having to go through someone’s post

If you’re gonna accuse someone of something, then yes you better make some effort to be reasonably sure. This is the other side of vigilantism people don’t like hearing about - accusing everyone of being evil and making everyone just walk on tiptoes around you isn’t really the outcome you want, it will eventually come around and bite you in the ass.

Reporting everything and leaving the police/mods sort it out only works if those police/mods aren’t overly trigger-happy to shoot you on sight.

If you’re on the fence and it feels like the only people who listen to you with respect and sympathy are the anti-trans people

This is what people just don’t seem to understand. The “you’re 150% with us and declaring it on every turn, or you’re against us” rule just makes completely normal people end against them.

This really goes for every kind of issue that may come up, not even just for the typical “left-right” feud bullshit.

The thing is, it’s not even required to be nice and keep explaining shit or whatever - there’s always the option on an individual level to just ignore stuff.

Like with the joke in this story - no, you don’t need to be the police to immediately report and flag everything that’s 10% over the line. You don’t need to see red all the time. Just ignore it and move the fuck on, you’re not getting any extra social credits for beings overly sensitive and protective.

The obvious counterargument is “well if you ignore everything, they win”, but that’s still just the same paranoia, the same dividing between us and everyone else, the same overprotectiveness. You don’t have to let everything pass, that doesn’t mean you have to police everything everything either.

Besides there will always be a ton of people willing to do online vigilantism, so you’re really totally fine to just ignore most things and not run to the mod about everything.

It’s like those zero-tolerance policies in some schools (American schools of course, where else) where forgetting a pink plastic water gun or a nail clipper in their backpack can get a 10yo kid arrested and expelled. It’s not helping anything, it’s not addressing the actual problem, it singles out random people as examples, and it just makes everyone hate you.

be careful of ‘whataboutism’ so hey, fun tight rope

If I see someone using the term whataboutism, I know there’s no discussion to be had with them. Another originally sensible word that has been destroyed by overuse. I’ve been accused of whataboutism by just adding some extra information about a game console history. Holy shit. You can tell that person’s entire mission in life is to just scope the internet of any sign of disagreement about anything they find holy, no matter how trivial.

It’s like with most people really. The majority just wants to live their lives in peace, but there’s that small group of militant assholes that make life difficult for everybody.

In this case, they also happen to belong to a disadvantaged group, so in addition to being assholes, they can also accuse other random people of just about anything, and you can’t really say anything against them.

The only possible end result of this is that it will blow up, nobody will be happy and the wave of sympathy can even turn around. Like Amber Heard killed the whole MeToo movement, but it was on its last legs already due to similar shitty people.

I’m not surprised. While I’ve created quite a corner of an online life for myself here, in the back of my mind there’s always the thought that I’m half a step from being misunderstood and reported, banned, or at least least dumped on.

I’ve encountered a bit too many people here who are paranoid and apparently only looking for the worst in everyone else. And since I’m probably older than average, and from the eastern half of Europe, I’m just more used to using abrasive language sometimes without needing to constantly announcing my tolerance for some particular selection of specific things that happens to be in the news this month. That’s obviously not the preferred vibe here.

Dope. Now I kinda want all my icons in this Vanced Light style…

Pretty cute. I’d like the Vanced ones without the circle, just transparent.

Well either way, now the Jerboa icon looks out of place in my folder of Lemmy stuff since everything else is uglier.

It’s ironic, considering how much we’ve been fighting over whether to let Meta in or not.

Fuck me, that’s exactly how society works, some bully doing something, the normal people fighting over it, then the bully going “never mind lol”.

Ok I don’t need sleep after all.

Federation is the most natural form of human society. We’ve developed to exist in small communities of a couple dozen people. Some groups talk to each other, some don’t, and every one has its own identity. Sometimes a member leaves and gets assimilated into another group.

Existing in large communities with thousands and millions of members - other species do that, like ants.

Ok weird analogy, but I think that’s the gist of it really.

Uniform places like Facebook, with one queen/master, perfectly organised, never really seeing outside, being just a cog - that’s a life of an ant.

Small, agile communities, sometimes a bit messy and complex, especially when it comes to outside interactions - we can handle that, because of our huge human brains.

It’s time for moving away from being ants back to being humans.

No, the creator might not know of all the communities where the post might be relevant. You’d end up either with everyone bugging the poster to xpost it everywhere; or everyone just copying the post, making things worse.

Seeing an xpost might lead you to finding nee communities you didn’t know, it’s one of the best discovery tools.

Been browsing with Jerboa for 2 hours now, no problem here.

People have been asking the admins directly and never got an answer (AFAIK). Maybe on Mastodon it’s been discussed more thoroughly.

But anyway, when you’re federating, you’re only “sharing” what the user wishes to be public anyway.

You’re not federating their personal information (like email address), which is your responsibility when it comes to stuff like data protection and locality. But what your users post online is not your responsibility, as long as you take reasonable precautions against illegal activity etc.

It’s not unlike email and such - if a user sends an email from your service, they can request to delete it from your server, but it’s not up to you to delete it from recipient’s servers.

Considering EU likes to promote interoperability of services, I’d say they are aware of such limitations. Just make sure to make your service compliant, and make users know you have no power over other servers.