Also on Reddit being a poweruser meant that you could probably sell/loan your account to shady advertisers, which isn’t as much of a problem here since the Fediverse isn’t monetized by ads.

Additionally, I think power users are a problem if they’re just blindly spamming posts without engaging with the community, not so much if they’re just organically filling the void with posts.

I <3 lemmy’s prolific posters. o7

Thank heavens for your unhealthy posting habits, we need to clone you Stamets

Also, Google is a (the?) major source of funding for Mozilla, so they have a lot of clout with them.

because I also host an instance

Ah! That rules out filtering. I don’t envy what you have to trawl through all the garbage to keep the rest of us safe!

I totally get what you’re saying, and those things drive me up the wall too.

I’ve ended up curating my feed heavily, blocking and filtering words, users and communities that don’t interest me. Since then, I rarely see any of the whining. If your client supports filtering by keyword, it might dramatically improve your Lemmy experience :)

Him and Stamets

OMG, LilDumpy left another comment! 📸

LOUD NOISES!

Looks yummy! There’s something very aesthetically pleasing about the labelled before photo.

You’re tripping, I’ve donated :)

Agreed. I think it dilutes user engagement, because people will leave comments on these bot threads, never to be seen by anybody else.

I went ahead and blocked it and spend time on HN along with Lemmy instead. HN discussions on those posts are always so much livelier than those sad, but interesting copycat posts.

Looks amazing!

Nice work!

I just had an idea that might make the browsing experience better. Hitting Esc should take you back i.e. do the same as clicking the back arrow button in the UI. I think this would make the UI seem more responsive. I think this would work well with the other UI change you’re considering with making posts look more like Alexandrite as well.

I would love this!

That’s fair. Instance blocking at the lemmy level will be a hugely popular feature. The backend feature is merging very soon!

I would recommend using a client that allows instance and/or keyword blocking. I believe Sync and Connect on Android offer these features amongst others. I would also raise this issue with the dev of whatever client you’re using, as a lot of clients now have this feature.

The Lemmy backend is also getting instance blocking shortly.

Also, any idea why only some articles have this option?

Huh, interesting. I’m finding it a bit difficult to tell which parts of the text are being pulled in.

Thanks!

Edit: actually, I’m pretty sure that’s not it. It doesn’t seem to have pulled out any of the text from this links in this post:

Post in question: https://derp.foo/post/207682