MentalEdge

Oh I’m not against the interoperability, the opposite, I want it to be better.

Comments do work.

Right now it’s really convoluted and I’ve seen people accidentally post to lemmy while thinking they were just pinging a user, when it actually was a community.

And following communities from mastodon is a mess because they obviously then fill the feed with way more posts than a single person would. And they all look like they’re posted by the user/community instead of the actual user that posted them TO that community. Not to mention they don’t see votes and have to no good way to sort community content, except chronologically.

Yeah, that’s why Reddit was the only platform I ever got into. And now Lemmy.

Obviously a post on Lemmy will look like a Lemmy post, but the interoperability is kinda cursed when you look into how it actually ends up working.

Good! But it definitely didn’t back when I implemented it in Thunder half a year ago.

And the way I want it to work is the way it did in Relay. The button dismisses currently loaded read posts, but scrolling further will still load in read posts, and refreshing brings them all back.

They don’t get permanently hidden, nor do you need to untoggle a setting to see them again next time you refresh.

Is that how Voyager does it?

I don’t use sync. I installed it to check out whether it had that feature I wanted.

It does, but I’m sticking with Thunder.

So it does! I didn’t find it when I tried it, I guess.

But if one doesn’t want to pay to rid Sync of ads, Thunder is an open source, free, actively developed alternative. It’s still not feature complete, but I’ve been happily using it since I hopped over from reddit. And contributed a good few features myself, like user and community sidebars.

The next update will include my work on an indicator that shows if and how many new comments a post you’ve already visited has received since you last opened it (like in the webUI). And some other guys on the team have gotten notifications implemented.

ATM, you can’t. Normal mastodon posts are not understood by lemmy servers. They don’t know how to handle content that is not associated with a community.

Most of the fediverse is like twitter. Users making posts to their own “microblogs”/profiles, following each other or browsing a timeline of all posts by everyone. That’s mastodon, and it has by far the most activity.

Lemmy doesn’t support profile posts, and you can’t follow users, only communities.

Basically, all content on Lemmy is posted to groups, while all content on Mastodon is posted to the users own profiles. While the networks are technically connected, the content type is not compatible.

I hear mastodon is getting support for groups, though, which might be something that can be interoperable with lemmy communities. Then they could look at communities as if they were user groups, and post to them, and we could sub to mastodon user groups, and see their posts and feeds as if they were communities.

But until Lemmy implements support for “user” posts and “user” following, we won’t see the majority of content of that type, coming from mastodon.

There’s already some funky interoperability that comes from the underlying structure of communities kind of being user accounts, where mastodon users can follow Lemmy communities, and post to communities by mentioning them. But it’s not pretty.

If you liked Relay, try Thunder. It has the dismiss read feature that made Relay my go-to. It’s the only app I’ve seen that has it, maybe because I joined the dev team to add it.

It’s a chicken and egg problem. Roundabouts are well-liked by those used to them, and despised by those who aren’t. A product isn’t bad because it’s an acquired taste, and there’s no solution that doesn’t involve trying it until you get it.

It’s kinda funny how these comments are proving Randall’s point, that people don’t know to lane-shift in roundabouts.

You’re not supposed to ever get to the middle. It’s “technically navigable” because you can lane-shift your way out.

The joke is that you have to lane-shift to get out, the way you have to in most large roundabouts already.

Something people not used to roundabouts seem afraid to do, hence this is a design that “doesn’t coddle them” because if they don’t lane-shift, they end up in the middle.

Simpler solution, just add a bottomless pit or small singularity in the middle to absorb excess traffic.

Not anymore, both liftoff and thunder are now on both iOS and Android.

IIRC there is a way to do this in the settings of mautrix whatsapp, if that’s what you are using.

However, it should only be used if you will be the only user to ever use this server. This is because the puppet accounts will be used for everyone, so if a given whatsapp user is in the contacts of multiple users on your server, and is also in a group chat with both of you, that user would now have two names. One from your contact list, one from the other users contact list. This will cause problems. A user cannot have a different display name depending on who they chat with.

The way I’m encouraging growth on my subs is to first sub to them using a couple secondary accounts on other instances.

This way posts get visibility across more than just local.

Then I post once or twice a day, so there’s a fresh post that people can come across in “all”. This is how people do discovery on the fediverse, they see good posts, and find and sub to communities that way.

There’s only so much I can do alone, and some of my subs I’m not posting to as diligently as others, not to mention other communities I want to help get discovered, not started by me.

So yeah, more people helping keep up that daily post would help, but going past that, like what c/digitalart was doing at the start, gets real obnoxious with how it saturates “all”.

Sopuli.xyz has been serving me nicely!

I don’t know of any app that lets you do community management yet.

Twitch looking at their top creators leaving for other platforms.

Increasing our revenue share, unilaterally, should fix this.

Congrats.

You’re about to be the first person I block on lemmy.

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