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Cake day: October 24th, 2024

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  • I have never visited either Mastodon or Bluesky before this week, but I finally did a test yesterday. I wanted to see how easy it was to find mention of that Reddit group fedinews that “everyone” seems to be talking about lately. Note, I’m not trying to promote Reddit here, it’s a legitimate trend and I wanted to see if there were meta-discussions about such.

    First, on Lemmy there are zero mentions of this term that I could find with a search from the past six months.

    Second, Mastodon.social had like 1-2 items tops.

    Third, Bluesky had the topic plastered all over the front page, without me needing an account, making it darn near impossible for someone to miss even if they tried.

    TLDR: the content is either on Reddit or Bluesky, unless we are talking about using Arch btw, or promoting violent overthrow of the entire Western philosophy and way of life (having a bank account = being a landlord btw). Yes there are tiny niches on Lemmy, and I love them, but if our goal was somehow to replace Reddit or X for a source of discussions as to what is going on in the world… then we would have failed.

    Bluesky seems to offer people what they want. I suggest that Mastodon copy that, if it is capable of doing so.

    Edit: also, getting back to the original point, read this essay on features in PieFed, a Lemmy alternative, that will help offer democratization of moderation, putting the power back into the hands of The People to choose what they want to see or not rather than relying solely on a mod to make those choices for someone. e.g. there are icons that can go next to a username (“account is <2 weeks old”, “posts >50x more often than comment, could be an unregistered bot?”, “uaer offers controversial content, receiving >20x more downvotes than upvotes”, etc.), and people can choose to auto collapse comments with lots of downvotes (easily opened with but a single click though!) or even automatically hidden entirely. Different users can share the same community and each get the experience that they want out of it. PieFed is still not fully developed, but all of these features that I’ve described here already exist, along with many other highly-requested ones like Categories of Communities, hashtags, YouTube embedding, the ability to block all users from an instance of the users choice without requiring admin approval, and more. I have lost most hope for “Lemmy”, but PieFed gives me the hope again that I once placed into Kbin, only reluctantly transferring that to Lemmy.





  • Your post is visible from lemmy.world (here) but it says it was 2 hours ago (probably bc you edited it), yet it appears sandwiched between posts that say 22 hrs and one day ago. I don’t know how to figure out when it came in.

    Usually a delay of a day in federation like that is deadly to a post’s visibility bc when it does come in, it slots in to the original post time rather than the receipt, i.e. it doesn’t show up well when sorting by “New”, and ofc people haven’t seen it yet so it also doesn’t show up in Hot or Top or Active either.

    This one looks a lost cause, probably bc of federation issues.




  • It’s probably our internal modifications, but Jira especially iirc is known to be quite “fragile”.

    Edit: ofc the main point here is that companies pay to test only on Chrome, then consider the matter settled, even while Firefox decides to strike out on its own in so many ways regardless. I have no choice but to use Chrome… or to find another job.