Lemmy

The idea for me is to build a client which is solely focused on media consumption.

Currently the client is working completely without a separate backend, storing everything locally and these things are already implemented:

• Search communities
• Show recently visited communities (split by safe/nsfw)
• Login to view NSFW communities
• Different sort modes
• Link extraction from Posts for albums
• Saving posts locally (without images)
• Show saved posts by community or all
• URL mappings to remap from full URLs to embed URLs per provider
• Keyboard navigation (Prev/Next Post/Image, Save Post)

These are planned additionally:

• Proper instance selection / Login
• See (follow) user posts (F keybind)
• Block user posts (B keybind)
• Show original post (O keybind)
• Auto advance images (adjustable time)

Probably needs a nicer web UI as well but I plan to push it live this weekend to get some early feedback. Do you have any more suggestions?

I have installed connect for lemmy on my phone, but I don't particularly like the way the website looks, are there any web apps for lemmy?

Just wanted to ask: what do you not like in Lemmy (Lemmy as communities, server and clients)?

This is just a way for me to get some feedback from the community.

Subscription models only make sense for an app/service that have recurring costs. In the case of Lemmy apps, the instances are the ones with recurring hosting costs, not the apps.

If an app doesn’t have recurring hosting costs, it only makes sense to have one up front payment and then maybe in app purchases to pay for new features going forward

Otherwise, if we have a lot of medium sized instances but the most popular communities are hosted on just a few huge instances, doesn't that defeat the purpose of distributing load across many instances?

If that's the case, how do we solve the cumbersome user experience of having to subscribe to the same community over and over again across a ton of medium instances?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding how the Show Context link is meant to work, but I would think when you click Show Context, it should show the comment being replied to so you can see the...Well, context.

Currently, at least on Lemm.ee, clicking Show Context does nothing. No parent comments are shown whatsoever, so the comment being viewed remains isolated & without context. The only way to see the context is to open all comments and search through for the comment you were linked to/saw and then read what it was replying to.

You can find it here. Source code in the link.

The platform/service is still in beta and opening up invites to its first users now.

The main developer is on mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@reiver

Their webpage if you want to signup for early access: https://spacehost.live/

From what I've gathered, they intend to support a variety of fediverse platforms, but have started with lemmy with kbin close behind.

I'm getting tired of every time I load a post that it defaults to sorting comments by Hot, and I prefer sorting by Top, so I have to load each post I read twice. There's only a setting to default sort posts this way, not comments in posts.

I ask generally out of curiosity. I was just thinking that as big social media fractures, old school isolated forums might become "cool again", and that one of the achievements of lemmy might be as a nice platform for simply running a forum for whatever community you want all without needing to worry about federation.

If it turns out that work of federating data is a substantial part of the resource overhead, and that an isolated server would actually be quite efficient, that'd be quite a nice feather in the lemmy cap I'd say. Hexbear seems to have been using lemmy this way for a while and it seems to have been successful too.

Currently if you archive a Lemmy thread you can see all the posts and comments but all replies to all comments are hidden in a “X# more replies ->” which if clicked it tries opening it forever and the replies never load.

Edit: updated title and body so its more clear im asking about how lemmy can be updated so its easier for the wayback machine to also archive the replies to comments

Example: https://web.archive.org/web/20230801065606/https://lemmy.world/post/2398000

My block list is quickly filling up with communities that I don't have anything against, I just don't speak the language. Does such a setting already exist? If not, are there any plans to add one?

I swear I made a post to a community and lemmy automatically detected that it had the same URL link as another post in another community made by someone else and listed this post as a cross post.

Was this always a feature before? Is it new? Did I misunderstand what happened?

This is something pretty small but extremely annoying.

So I was writing a really long and thought out reply to a comment, but right before I submitted it, I decided to upvote the comment to get that out of the way first. Imagine my surprise when the reply dialog disappeared and I lost the five or so paragraphs I was writing. And yes re-opening the reply dialog just gives you a blank text box.

I'm not sure what the internal GUI logic is that causes this, maybe something to do with how React/Inferno handles dynamic elements like this? But it's really bad UX and I imagine not too hard to fix.

Also reporting this to see if it's actually a GUI issue or if it's something wrong with my browser. Has anyone experienced this?

In the meantime, if you're writing a long comment, I suggest at least saving it in your clipboard from time to time, just select all and copy. That way you can restore it. I've decided to start doing this until the issue is fixed because I write walls of text almost every day, probably should just get into the habit of it in general. Even better if you have clipboard history since then it's persistent.

Basically what the title says, while the page is loading sometimes I will see someone else's username and pfp in the top left corner before it switches to my own when the page finishes loading. I have seen this happen twice now.

Posted this over on asklemmy but they deleted the post so posting here now..

cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/232185

Hey all,

I’ve got an exciting thing to announce today, Canvas — Lemmy’s r/Place!

We need to get our own traditions over here in the Threadiverse, why not start off with our own r/Place

This weekend, we will open up a canvas to all Lemmy users, each user will be able to place 1 pixel every minute. This event will last 72 hours, starting midnight EST on the 4th and ending at 11:59pm EST on the 6th

Some instances that are joining in:

• toast.ooo
• lemmy.zip
• lemmy.ca

Join the Lemmy Community [!canvas@toast.ooo](/c/canvas@toast.ooo)

Join the Matrix Space #lemmy-canvas:matrix.org

I've updated the bot and added the possibility of translating hardcoded links (like this one: https://lemmy.world/post/2355178 or this one: https://lemmy.world/comment/1863672) to posts/comments with links from your instance when you mention him. I'll show an example in comments.

Down with the algorithm telling us what to read. I just want to see most recent first. Thanks.

I've read some people saying that it's better. How has it changed?

Having said that, is it really the end of the world if large Lemmy instances have ads to make up for any shortfall in donations? Otherwise, how are large instances expected to be sustainable long term, especially if they're going to ever reach the kinds of traffic Reddit sees?

Sorry if this is obvious question

I'm subscribed to quite a few communities now but my subscribed feed is still pretty barren. Whether I sort by hot or active I'm seeing the same few posts a lot of the time, often with very few upvotes or comments. I also see months old posts popping up again and again. There is a post on one community with -39 score from 8 months ago that I see every time I open the app. And one from 3 years ago with one comment from months ago.

All feed isn't much better for me either.

Is there a way to fold the comments besides the minus on top?

It's annoying to be 10 comments under a a parent comment and having to scroll up to the parent to collapse. The lines are already there. Couldn't we just have clicking on them collapse to that level?