Automoderator is dead. I’m going to have to do this manually for now… won’t I?

  • @dragontamerOPMEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    Initial hot-take on the Beehaw drama.

    Sucks for Beehaw to have that happen to their community, defederation also sucks for everybody… especially for a large instance like Beehaw. The choice of server does seem to matter to both users who sign up and communities who wish to participate (and possibly push the rules of any server to their limit).

    It looks like everyone’s being adults on this matter though, and defederation seems like a good solution to the problems the Beehaw community is facing right now. But it is not quite like how Lemmy was “sold” however as a happy-go-lucky federation.

    Lemmy (and the fediverse) are going to have a HUGE influx of people with this #RedditBlackout, and we can expect plenty of misunderstandings (and drama) from people when this happens. There are buttons and concepts that people don’t understand, and everyone will get confused by this and get rather dramatic about it.

    With regards to the former /r/RealTesla community and [email protected], the Beehaw instance was never an option for us to begin with because they closed the ability to make new communities. Their communities were nicely moderated and active, but they have their server to take care of. I expect most of the Fediverse to remain compatible with lemmy.world (and therefore accessible to [email protected]). So making this community (or test community) here on lemmy.world was the right move, even in retrospect.

  • @dragontamerOPMEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    Thoughts on Lemmy so far:

    1. The only missing feature so far is “Flairs”, where we flagged topics as “Shitpost”, “Teslagenial”, and other such flags to help people filter out shitposts from their discussions. Hopefully Lemmy implements Flairs (or tags), or some other equivalent.

    2. I think… that’s it? Everything else feels pretty similar to Reddit. We got Markdown-based discussion and messaging. Posts-and-replies seems to work, subscriptions, etc. etc.

    I guess I need more than just 2 or 3 hours on Lemmy before I figure out what’s wrong. But I can see this working.

    • @dragontamerOPMEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      “Mark as Read” is a bit of a change from Reddit. Looks like posts in your mailbox have a “checkmark” that you can click to say when you’re done reading, or you explicitly click the “Mark all as read” button, rather than the auto-magic browsing behavior Reddit used to have.

      I’m neutral on this change. I think I can get used to it.

    • Adam CookEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Yeah. I agree.

      I feel at home here (at least as at home as I was moving from Twitter to Mastodon).

      And I actually feel like Lemmy is “closer” already to Reddit than Mastodon was to Twitter (which was sort of a turn off on the latter).

    • Adam CookEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      So, a possible bug in Lemmy… I am not sure yet though.

      It looks like when I was composing some recent comments… if you post something in another thread… it like “shifts” my comment over to your thread…

      I do not know if it because you are a mod or something, but it was quite surprising behavior.

      If I did not just go crazy or something, I am certain that someone else would have noticed this by now.

      • @dragontamerOPMEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        Well, you’re the safety expert. You know how bugs are in software, so mysterious and appearing and disappearing on us!

        I’ve seen a couple of “phantoms” myself. I suddenly got 300-alerts all at once, and then… nothing. I’m thinking the frontend / Javascript layer of Lemmy isn’t quite perfect yet. Its probably best if we kept a log of any particular bugs we come across. Phantoms or not, I’m sure that the Lemmy community and developers would appreciate it in the long term.

      • Dr. DabblesEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        There seems to be a good sized list of bugs, unintended behaviors, and features that flat out don’t work when more than a few thousand people use the system. If there are rust devs in the comments here, I’m sure your help would be appreciated.

        • @dragontamerOPMEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          I would expect my bug to be UI-based.

          https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui

          So it’d be unrelated to the number of users IMO, but maybe due to the fact that I’m using say… Firefox, and maybe the behavior is slightly different than Chrome or something.

  • @dragontamerOPMEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    I decided to edit the title, rather than post a new one.

    Just to be different from the /r/RealTesla roots.