I don’t know what Cohost was but I’m pessimistic about Lemmy these days. Note that the link is to an article moaning about the centralization of sites like Reddit and that Cohost (whatever that was) failed because it was run by the same type of people. At first I didn’t click on the link because it says “audio” so I expected it to be audio and I didn’t feel like listening to one. It’s a written article though.

wtf.

What is this thing and who is supposed to care? It looks sort of like Mastodon: is it related?

IDK what Boost is here, but Voyager and the standard web UI can both turn off the vote display.

I turned off vote display and rarely miss seeing the votes. See also Facebook Demetricator.

Live chat doesn’t really fit though I don’t see why it would have large storage requirements. Posting on profiles might be a good idea though.

Either of those would be a general Lemmy thing, not specifically lemmy.world which is just one instance.

Oh that’s an interesting approach. Yeah I might try that. Thanks. I’m used to the magnifying glass icon being right next to the search entry field, but as long as it’s just a link anyway, I might as well use a different link.

This is about getting issues to the devs, not hosting a copy of the code. Git is easy to self-host and that’s what I do with my own repos.

Shrug, if this gets to the devs I’m sure they’ll consider it. The main thing bugging me is the Microsoft angle that their suggested channel requires.

I don’t want the software to interpret the results, I just want to get them sorted newest first without having to click an extra time. Also this being a free software activist project, the idea of adding on a paid feature seems pretty far out of place.

Aha, I didn’t know about or forgot about old.lemmy.world. I’ll try that now. But, I’d be satisfied with whatever default, as long as there is a way to change it.

Thanks, but that is showing posts and I am hoping to sort search results. Like:

https://lemmy.world/search?q=trump&type=All&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll

First result is a month old. There is a pulldown to change it on a single result page, but no way I can see to change the default.

I feel like video is a Borg that assimilates every communication medium ever invented, and turns it into crap after a while. So this report doesn’t excite me.

Paywalls just don’t mix that well with federation. The teasers are basically ads, and why would fediverse volunteers want to propagate some company’s ads? The non-federated model they are using now seems fine.

Wait their articles are paywalled. Are they only going to federate the clickbait teaser intros?

It’s better than nothing if you record that account X voted in poll Y without recording how they voted. Just keep count of the # of votes for each option. After the poll closes, delete the list of voters for that poll. It might be possible to do something fancier to get more privacy.

I’m kind of against this unless people’s responses are kept private for real (i.e. not stored on the server). Otherwise it’s just more kompromat piling up.

It’s somewhat private. Like when you enter your email address to make a Lemmy account, the address is stored on the server. The admins can see it and it could potentially escape in a server breach, but it is not intentionally made public. So most of us don’t worry. The interest in encrypting pm’s is that they can potentially be more sensitive than email addresses.

Yes basically. And also use the pm system for literal crime, bringing heat on the admins.

Of course you can PM your email address to someone. It’s not encrypted but it’s not exactly public in the sense that spammers can see it.