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Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by chamara1999 »

ehsankia wrote: post #253
TulliusCicero wrote: post #235

I have to say, at the very least, the UI is a breath of fresh air compared to new Reddit. New Reddit is just...I can't quite put my finger on it, but it just feels awful to look at.

While I agree that new reddit is awful, I still much prefer old reddit to this. Also what's up with this new trend of having the main content width-restricted, but not the header [0]? The new GitHub UI that went live this week has the exact same problem on wide screens. What kind of UX designer ever approved such a mess and why do so many sites do this? The main UI itself, again very width restricted, but also has st…

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Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by coconut08 »

kenrose wrote: post #389

“Open source federated Reddit” Maybe I’m old, but isn’t this what Usenet was / is?

I'm not sure that usenet could scale to the degree that reddit has. Part of what reddit does that makes it good(though it's both a blessing and a curse) is that a lot of the curation and moderation is handled by the community via the upvote downvote system. That means that you don't need as much dedicated moderation handling things which at the scale that some of the subreddits operate at is huge.

Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by u801e »

takeda wrote: post #30
readnews1 wrote: post #8

"Reddit alternative" "open source federated" What is the difference between this and usenet

I agree with you that Reddit basically overlaps this area, but I don't think access to Usenet is easy these days (ignoring paid services that are optimized for downloading files). Although if anyone knows good servers (ISPs no longer seem to offer them) or even better a way to connect own server to Usenet, I'm interested.

There are still a few servers that allow one to access usenet to access text based groups without a monthly fee. Barring that, you can access usenet newsgroups via Google Groups (groups.google.com), but only via HTTP.

Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by u801e »

generatorguy wrote: post #19
readnews1 wrote: post #8

"Reddit alternative" "open source federated" What is the difference between this and usenet

You might be on to something! repackage an nntp server with a web front end in a docker container and away you go

Dejanews did that many years ago. You can still access usenet via Google groups.

Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by frosted-flakes »

ehsankia wrote: post #372
TheDong wrote: post #309

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are many many people who keep a single window maximized at all times and alt-tab between windows. It's the most basic form of window management, and it works pretty well. It's especially helpful if you want to be able to focus on one thing at a time only, and not have multiple different windows with disparate screen noise visible at once. I often operate in that mode, using a tiling window manager to have a sin…

I agree. I will do side by side quite often when I'm programming or doing a specific multi-tasking work, but my "regular" browsing is fullscreen. I don't see why I would browse the web (single focused task) on the left or right half of my monitor, that just seems... silly?

I maximize the window height, but limit it in width precisely because so many websites aren't designed for wide screens. Windows makes this easy: just double click on the top or bottom edge of the window. It's also sticky, so I can easily drag it to the centre of the screen.

Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by kdtsh »

tootahe45 wrote: post #375
TulliusCicero wrote: post #235

I have to say, at the very least, the UI is a breath of fresh air compared to new Reddit. New Reddit is just...I can't quite put my finger on it, but it just feels awful to look at.

50% of the functionality also doesn't even work on Firefox in my experience.

Seeing as new reddit feels like new Google as far as UI elements are concerned, I’m not surprised - it’s made for Chrome.

Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by guerrilla »

jimbob45 wrote: post #286
ryder9 wrote: post #238

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> nothing wrong with pedophilia or nazis

You’ve got to give people a space to consider both sides of every argument. Better to cordone off that space than have that discussion elsewhere. If you tell someone NEVER GO INTO THE LAST DOOR ON THE THIRD STORY, they’ll endlessly wonder what’s inside. If you show them that it’s your amateur paintings, they’ll never care again.

Nobody wonders whats inside the door of pedophilia and nazism. We know. It's well documented.

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Post by nothal »

marcinzm wrote: post #141
jimbob45 wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nothing wrong with communities like that as long as you keep them segregated like reddit does with each of its subreddits. If those start creeping into your politics, memes, and video game subreddits, then yeah you’ve got a rough problem.

>Nothing wrong with communities like that as long as you keep them segregated like reddit does with each of its subreddits. Which wasn't enough as I understand since those communities would en-mass attack other communities that they disagreed with.

To be fair, this seems like a generally true case of how subreddits work. Leftist subs brigade, Conservative subs brigade, star wars subs brigade, subs about watching other subs brigade still brigade. It's unsolvable so long as people that disagree are allowed to freely access each other's reddits (not that that's a bad thing).

Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by nothal »

zanny wrote: post #386
jimbob45 wrote: post #286

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You’ve got to give people a space to consider both sides of every argument. Better to cordone off that space than have that discussion elsewhere. If you tell someone NEVER GO INTO THE LAST DOOR ON THE THIRD STORY, they’ll endlessly wonder what’s inside. If you show them that it’s your amateur paintings, they’ll never care again.

Insert paradox of intolerance here. We want to act like we are purely rational beings, and maybe some of us operate on that level consistently, but those of us that do not, even for a moment, are ripe to have their animal brains taken advantage of for evil.

The paradox of tolerance is an iffy justification. It's an anecdotal testament of someone who survived the Holocaust, IIRC. Not to minimize the Holocaust or any part of it. That said, as far as I've seen, there's no established historical pattern that fascism is a function of societal tolerance of intolerant ideologies.
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