I’ve registered on a bunch of Lemmy instances, but I stuck with lemmy.ml because for the most part it seemed to have the least amount of downtime IME. Though I think they’re all pretty stable these days anyway.

What you said is very true though, it helps to try out and especially actively use alternatives, since that’s how you end up with software like Chrome (not really but kind of, you get the idea).

I think the bigger issue is Ernest simply refused outside help. He took everything on himself and didn’t allow outside contributions, which is just not sustainable for a project of that size. It’s a shame because I really wanted to like KBin, especially since it’s written in PHP and I’m a PHP developer, but Lemmy ended out winning.

It’s true, we are za warudo.

Yep, this is why I have multiple Lemmy accounts. That’s even one of the biggest strengths of Lemmy.

I think the problem with projects like that is they end up with stuff like this: https://i.imgur.com/PRX4haL.png where the only recommended client is one that is unmaintained.

Though I hope Revolt succeeds because Discord has way too big of a monopoly.

The enshitification is very, very real. This is why the Fediverse is so important.

The protocol used for it is a bit of an older protocol, but basically it uses the RSS protocol. It came out in the 90s and hasn’t been updated since 2014, and I haven’t touched any code related to it since before 2019. Otherwise, it’d just be standard HTTPS for websites like Spotify etc and whatever podcast discovery system they have on their site etc.

No worries, glad to hear you got it up and running again :)

Oh that’s good to know, thanks.

Awesome, glad to hear those issues are aware of! Best of luck with fixing them, it does sound like a challenging bug.

For the new comments having yellow being poor contrast, is that something that could still be fixed? It seems to be really poor contrast and hard on the eyes, a couple of my friends noticed this too.

For the pageCursor not using page number, is that intentional or could it be fixed to use page number again?

Honestly, I have some problems with this update (and some things I’m super happy about too of course), I hope my feedback is seen so the problems can be made aware:

1. I’m not a fan of new comments having yellow, the contrast is poor at least on darkly-compact and it just looks weird and out of place. I’d suggest maybe making them a slightly lighter or darker shade of the existing color to make them stand out, not an entirely different color.
2. It seems the main page/posts pagination uses pageCursor instead of page number now, whereas profiles still use page number. Using pageCursor is an SEO downgrade and usability downgrade, it’s a weird decision IMO if that was intentional and not a bug.
3. I think I might have run into a bug, Lemmy no longer seems to save my upvotes or something. When I upvote some posts on the main page/posts list, even if I wait a few seconds, or 10 seconds or even 30 seconds, when I refresh my upvotes are gone. This one seems fixed now?
4. With “Top Day” sorting, there used to be multiple pages of posts, now sometimes I don’t even get a full page of posts: https://i.imgur.com/4LiZzJG.png (it looks like it’s showing posts from only one community, I have it set to subscribed communities but I’m literally subscribed to like 50 different communities) but other times I get one full page of posts plus multiple other posts which is how it always behaved before 0.19. Since it seems to be inconsistent, I’m thinking that’s a bug.

I’m super glad upvoting comments doesn’t discard the comment you’re writing, that’s a huge improvement. I also see import/export settings, that’s super awesome, I absolutely love features like this!

Thank you for your hard work, Lemmy is such a cool platform.