Here is our regular update that explains what we have been working on for the past two weeks. This should allow average users to keep up with development, without reading Github comments or knowing how to program.

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  • db0
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    233 months ago

    Adding local site settings to reject federated upvotes or downvotes.

    Yisss!

    • DessalinesOPM
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      153 months ago

      Yep this has been a growing problem, with ppl using various alt accounts on different servers to downvote things. Usually it’s pretty obvious because these accounts are all from the same servers, and have little or no comments or posts.

      With that setting you can be sure that all the votes at least are coming from your local users, keeping vote anonymity, and without disconnecting from the bigger servers.

      • db0
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        3 months ago

        I actually want to suggest an extended feature where you can use an allowlist of servers allowing voting in your instance, creating in effect a affinity group of instances. I’ll make a formal issue later

        • DessalinesOPM
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          63 months ago

          Cool, I originally thought about doing it that way, but maintaining allowlists and blocklists for all the different types of activities could get cumbersome (especially if we add things like blocking posts, comments, communities, messages, etc). But ya that’s a good issue to have.

    • Corgana
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      63 months ago

      This is one of those features that might not seem very huge but is a core thing that Reddit can’t have. Very cool.

      • db0
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        3 months ago

        finally gives something to do with hesitated instances on fediseer!

  • Blaze (he/him)
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    113 months ago

    Thanks for sharing and your work!

    How far do you think you all are from the 19.6 release?

    • @[email protected]M
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      193 months ago

      In principle it’s finished, but last time we put it on lemmy.ml for testing there were performance problems and we had to revert. So far it’s not clear what caused those problems, so we need to try again somehow.

  • Avieshek
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    3 months ago

    Are the ::: spoiler spoiler spoiler ::: normal on Lemmy yet?

  • Corgana
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    63 months ago

    Post scheduling is huge! Lots of good stuff in here.