Bazzatron

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Moving to new platforms/3rd party apps has made me realise everyone else has something against collapsing child comments. in c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
[โ€“] Bazzatron@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

"hide all child comments" was a much beloved feature on BaconReader, at least for me.

I also preferred the card view of content, and that all read content would get hidden.

But this is something new, so I'm trying not to compare them directly - I don't really want Lemmy to just be new Reddit, but something new.

This app. in c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
[โ€“] Bazzatron@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Legit thought Lemmy was serving me an advert for a moment there...!

But yeah, the official R*ddit app is Garbo, they even bought Alien Blue years ago and have just failed to keep pace with Apollo, RIF or BaconReader. This API move is just a monopolisation of their content stream, hugely anti-competition.

Even if they sorted out their app, rolled back API to free, I'd never go back. Fuck Spez.

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Individual control over other federations? (reddthat.com)
 

So I'm new here - I wondered if there's a way to "block" entire other federations?

E.g. I've seen complaints about "exploding head" being a wellspring for undesirable content, so turning that off individually gives users control over their experience without giving a power of censorship to the admin of this instance.

Also there are servers out there where English is not the default language - which is of no interest to monolingual me. I'd rather turn off content from that server entirely rather than just playing whack a mole with every new community that gets federated(?) Across.

TIA! ๐Ÿ™‚

PSA for my fellow redditfugees - there is a lovely person creating a script to restyle Lemmy to look like old.reddit. in c/main@sh.itjust.works
[โ€“] Bazzatron@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Well I'll definitely raise a glass to a new tomorrow! And here's hoping this is a first step in getting us out from under the thrall of for-profit organisations more broadly

PSA for my fellow redditfugees - there is a lovely person creating a script to restyle Lemmy to look like old.reddit. in c/main@sh.itjust.works
[โ€“] Bazzatron@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This whole thing takes me right back to wild west internet days, or the first steps for Blockchain.

It's exciting to see what the community decides is best, and I'm looking forward to seeing if this takes off or at least becomes as natural to me (and others) as R*ddit was.

A lot of things I need to learn and un-learn.

Thanks for your insight - small comments like this are really helping me get my bearings here. ๐Ÿ’š