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  • Czernobog
    261·
    5 years ago

    I hate reddit because of the toxic community. You say something even slightly which people don’t agree with, you’re heavily criticized and downvoted to hell. On top of that, the popular and all page is filled with American news, American stuff, All about USA. As a non American it gets very annoying very soon. I do like some of the communities especially for tech support. Or rather Linux support. I hope Lemmy develops and has great success in future. Good luck guys and thank you!

    • nutomicMA
      18·
      5 years ago

      On top of that, the popular and all page is filled with American news, American stuff, All about USA. As a non American it gets very annoying very soon.

      I agree with that, and really hope we can avoid it. Like by having better support for different languages.

          • heird
            22·
            4 years ago

            If you didn’t mean it to be, then it’s probably better to say that this instance is Anti-fascist.

            Because Antifa is being used a lot recently regarding a specific political movement in America.

            • nutomicMA
              7·
              4 years ago

              I mean what I said. The first Antifa was founded 100 years ago in Germany, and the name literally means “anti-fascist action”. So if you have a problem with that, this instance is not for you.

            • madk
              4·
              4 years ago

              That’s not true at all. Antifa has a long history in Europe, these are some groups are associated with the name antifa and they are a lot older than the current Trump namecalling.

  • SirLotsaLocks
    22·
    4 years ago

    I’m sure this has been said quite a lot but damn if this site doesn’t have the cleanest interface I’ve ever had the pleasure of using.

  • konky0418
    14·
    4 years ago

    One thing I really love about lemmy over reddit is the ability to post pictures as comments, it’s a great and really obvious feature that reddit still doesn’t have

  • Gilgamesh
    11·
    5 years ago

    Quick question, has there been any thought on redirecting users from https://lemmy.ml -> https://lemmy.ml ? Entering the former does not redirect you to this wonderful site and thus I thought why make this one of the reasons for the newcomer to complain about ;)

  • SnowCode
    9·
    5 years ago

    I just wanted to know how tf did you grown the community of Lemmy so fast xD it’s really incredible. Also the software grown so well in one year! I am really impressed!

    Did you had this community before?

    • DessalinesOPMA
      4·
      5 years ago

      thanks :thumbs up: I think this community is new.

      • SirLotsaLocks
        8·
        5 years ago

        I’m here from the reddit AMA, I’d wager a lot of other people are as well

        • falx
          6·
          5 years ago

          I also joined from the reddit AMA and just learning about fediverse (how have I been a software developer for 15 years and not learned about this thing is beyond me). Looking forward to seeing how this thing develops, it is an amazing idea.

          • SirLotsaLocks
            6·
            5 years ago

            I’ve known about the fediverse for a while now but I have struggled actually getting into it for a long time but this was the tipping point. After using this I got a PeerTube account, then I got into mastodon. This whole thing is an amazing concept that I love to death now and I look forward to watching it grow and expand!

        • abbenm
          5·
          5 years ago

          I’m also here from the reddit AMA. I’ve bounced around reddit, mastodon, hn, tildes, and some half-baked attempts at reddit alternatives. This one is easily, by a country mile, a much better reddit alternative than anything else out there. In terms of design, the mission, the awesome personal politics of the devs who I 100% support, and the fact that it plugs into a bigger mission of federation, unlike, say, tildes.

          • DessalinesOPMA
            5·
            4 years ago

            Thanks :smiling face with sunglasses: If even a few ppl are happy with it, then we’re doing a good job.

          • SirLotsaLocks
            4·
            4 years ago

            I agree wholeheartedly with everything you said. It’s the perfect upgrade from the reddit ui, it’s super fast and the personal politics of the admins really makes it infinitely better than almost every other alternative because they almost always go for “absolute free speech” leading to the people who got kicked off of everything else to end up there like voat (though tbh it could have started racist idk enough)

  • DessalinesOPMA
    8·
    5 years ago

    I’ve been tweaking a lot of things on the comments to make them look better on mobile, and have the tree stand out better. Taking a lot of ideas from slide and boost, some native reddit clients. whaddya think?

    • dietcokke
      2·
      5 years ago

      So far I think the comments are looking pretty good. For more inspiration you can look at Apollo on iOS. It’s a fantastic reddit client. Honestly, the current comment structure is pretty close already.

    • big
      2·
      5 years ago

      beautiful in darker modes, though the reply quote is thicker/brighter and can make the double line messy. I wonder if down the line the person’s quote can be made the same color as that user’s assigned color for the reply thread.

      I’ve been tweaking a lot of things on the comments to make them look better on mobile, and have the tree stand out better. Taking a lot of ideas from slide and boost, some native reddit clients. whaddya think?

      I was going to suggest top level replies deserve a little more breathing room between the above replies, when there is only one or two replies to each it’s a little claustrophobic.

      • Serge Tarkovski
        3·
        5 years ago

        Please add submitting comments on Ctrl+Enter, that’s for the desktop though.

      • DessalinesOPMA
        1·
        5 years ago

        Unfortunately I can’t do the color of the quoted text be the same as the left bar, plus that’d be a little confusing, but I can make them the same pixels.

        I can mess with spacing between replies too.

  • dreamland
    6·
    5 years ago

    Avoid discord at any cost.

    Why?

    Because discord does strong fingerprinting instead of the traditional cookies for identifying people. That’s bad for privacy.

    I don’t mind the concept of having chat, but who gets to provide that chat can make or break the feature. If it’s some creepy, invasive group like the people behind Discord, it’s a hard pass for me.

    • DessalinesOPMA
      6·
      5 years ago

      We already have a matrix room, this was just an announcement for a kind of chat here, since these rooms are live updating after all.

  • AgreeableLandscape
    6·
    5 years ago

    I’m not sure about removing colors from the username link and score distribution. IMO it makes it harder to discern what is what at a glance.

    • nutomicMA
      4·
      5 years ago

      The upvote buttons for comments are also weird like this. And i dont see any advantage at all.

      • DessalinesOPMA
        13·
        5 years ago

        I do have to make the vote scores more clear, but I’m mainly trying to recreate slide, and boost for reddit. The native reddit clients are way past reddit in terms of UI, so I’m trying to recreate that experience not just on mobile, but on desktop, as best I can.

        In addition to the slide example below, here’s boost:

  • nutomicMA
    5·
    5 years ago

    Actually the new ranking algorithm could make sense for threads like this, where you want to be informed about new comments. But it doesnt work for new posts.

    Maybe we need to rank different types of posts differently?

    • DessalinesOPMA
      6·
      5 years ago

      I’m leaning towards splitting these into two sorts.

      • Activity sort, IE its called hot right now. It’ll be default, and its basically hotRank(score, newest_comment_time)
      • Hot sort, which is what we’ve had until last week. Its hotRank(score, post_creation_time)
      • nutomicMA
        3·
        5 years ago

        Thats where the explanation for the sort options becomes important. And maybe better naming, because those two dont explain it at all.

        • AgreeableLandscape
          6·
          5 years ago

          This is a huge problem with Reddit. New and Top are pretty self explanatory, and everyone’s familiar with Hot (not that it’s well explained either), but what exactly is Rising, Controversal, or Best supposed to mean?!

        • AgreeableLandscape
          1·
          5 years ago

          By the way, I like the idea of using tooltips (AKA help text) to explain the different sorting options. Just my suggestion.

    • DarkenedFax
      5·
      5 years ago

      A Raspberry Pi would work well for a lot of things. It allows you to have full control over your data, frequently troubleshoot more effectively, etc.