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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 jedberg »

boring_twenties wrote: post #346
ehsankia wrote: post #253

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Wow, you're right. It did improve quite a bit. Not in an "OMG I'm switching right now" kind of way, but definitely in a "maybe I'll play around with this and see if I can configure it to my liking." Never would have happened if someone hadn't made a post like this, so thanks! edit: Aaaand instant regret, wow. Are you guys seeing this "Top Broadcast Right Now" shit? The best part for me is not just the ~1000px high ra…

I just did the same thing. I lasted one minute on the new interface.

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

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Post by pedrocx486 »

_8j50 wrote: post #11

Sorry, don't like the name. Also, when you say a reddit alternative, to me it gives the impression that the redditor culture will remain so why would I sacrifice the content rich reddit for a new platform? Federation doesn't mean much to me as a user that justs wants [social]entertainment and news (and commentary on them). There's only one thing that can change my mind a little: if you guarantee email is not and will…

I made a new reddit account until recently and still could register without email, when it asks you for email you can just press continue without providing an email.

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

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Post by ashtonkem »

smabie wrote: post #407
ashtonkem wrote: post #343

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The idea that anyone wouldn’t maximize all applications, especially their browser, is utterly bewildering to me.

It's bewildering to you that people want to look at multiple windows at the same time? Really?

When I have two apps side by side, they’re both maximized in split screen mode. This is a rare occurrence.

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

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Post by smabie »

taylorlunt wrote: post #404
newacct583 wrote: post #351

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Yeah, exactly. I immediately knew when I saw "federated" in the title that my job was to drop this link in. This comment seems like the right spot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communiti... Lacking global moderation, eventually every one of those subreddits will end up in Lemmy. Also somethingawful/4chan/8chan style "asshole feedback loops". Everyone at HN likes to claim they want free speech an…

I want subreddit-specific moderation. That way I can sub to a hatepost sub if I want and a mature tech sub if I want and get the best of both worlds. Everyone here who disagrees is just saying, "I don't want to join those communities, so they shouldn't even be allowed to exist."

What I've learned from talking to people is that though people say they support freedom (specifically, freedom of speech) almost no actually does. Almost everyone wants to restrict what other people say, even if they're never going to hear it or see it. People want to destroy everything in the world they don't agree with, including discourse itself.

This isn't a new trend of course, but I personally find it sad that the very people who claim to champion freedom and civil liberties are now actively trying to destroy them.

I think the diversity of people and their opinions in the world are scary. In the past, you could ignore or were unaware of just how different other people seemed. Now, this diversity is in the forefront, and people are scared shitless.

Ultimately, I believe that being exposed to people that disagree with you existentially shakes you and exposes you to the most scary thing imaginable: that nothing is actually true and that nothing matters. After all, if some guy believes everything I don't believe and vice versa, then maybe what I believe is arbitrary, made-up, and confabulated. And if that is the case, maybe none of us know anything at all. Or, as Heidegger would put it, this contradiction of beliefs removes us from being-in-the-world, and replaces it with being-towards-death.

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

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Post by smabie »

ashtonkem wrote: post #413
smabie wrote: post #407

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's bewildering to you that people want to look at multiple windows at the same time? Really?

When I have two apps side by side, they’re both maximized in split screen mode. This is a rare occurrence.

I guess I don't have a split screen mode on my window manager, so I just keep a bunch of small windows floating around.

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

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Post by noobermin »

gopiandcode wrote: post #410
Afforess wrote: post #24

How is lemmy going to avoid the fate of the last reddit alternative (voat)? Voat attracted the communities banned from reddit, e.g the worst of the worst: jailbait, creepshots, beatingwomen, etc. The users most interested in an alternative to reddit are on average, the exact wrong type of user to help with the growth of a healthy community. I don't see any information on how being "federated" solves the hard problem…

I believe this is more of a problem for centralized services - federation gives freedom to the user to choose the level of moderation/censorship they want - if you find certain communities distasteful, you can just join servers that block these communities. I think it is important however to have a strong emphasis on the separation of the servers from the protocol though - no one seems to care that Nazis could use em…

The problem is no one used the federated services.

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

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Post by mrmonkeyman »

ashtonkem wrote: post #343
rsynnott wrote: post #295

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Do that many people use maximised windows on 16:9 or greater screens? Maybe it’s just because all my early experience was on 4:3, but I’d never maximise a browser window on a modern screen. I’d agree this is bad design, but I’d be somewhat surprised if it’s a big practical problem for most people.

The idea that anyone wouldn’t maximize all applications, especially their browser, is utterly bewildering to me.

It's for people who actually have to process a lot of information and do it quick.

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

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Post by Karunamon »

adrianN wrote: post #403
Karunamon wrote: post #313

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Allow me to add one of my own: Journalists' jobs aren't to share their "concerns", it's to report the facts. So much of the media's pathology is a result of the problem that news doesn't even try to be impartial anymore. If you want to "share your concerns", the place to do that is an op-ed, or a blog post, or twitter, or something. But it isn't journalism anymore.

News never was impartial. Just by selecting what to report and the order in which you report things you influence the reception of the world. I'd argue that it's impossible to have objective news.

That's not what I'm talking about here. We've gone beyond mere story selection to actual agenda-pushing. I.e punditry, not journalism.

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

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Post by jbeam »

taylorlunt wrote: post #404
newacct583 wrote: post #351

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, exactly. I immediately knew when I saw "federated" in the title that my job was to drop this link in. This comment seems like the right spot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communiti... Lacking global moderation, eventually every one of those subreddits will end up in Lemmy. Also somethingawful/4chan/8chan style "asshole feedback loops". Everyone at HN likes to claim they want free speech an…

I want subreddit-specific moderation. That way I can sub to a hatepost sub if I want and a mature tech sub if I want and get the best of both worlds. Everyone here who disagrees is just saying, "I don't want to join those communities, so they shouldn't even be allowed to exist."

>That way I can sub to a hatepost sub if I want and a mature tech sub if I want and get the best of both worlds.

Is a hatepost sub the best of a world?

>Everyone here who disagrees is just saying, "I don't want to join those communities, so they shouldn't even be allowed to exist."

There is a huge leap between "I don't want to be a part of a hate platform" and "hate platforms shouldn't be allowed to exist."

Look, if a super laissez faire social media platform attracts a huge amount of neo-nazis then I have no interest in spending time on it's alternative vanilla areas. I don't owe anything to websites or decentralized torrent-like systems that harbor these groups. They can decide to win me over or not. My eyeballs on their vanilla shit provides legitimacy to their horrifying shit. That is very different than saying they shouldn't be allowed to exist.

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

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Post by kixiQu »

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…

"what kind of UX designer approved...." If you want to say that about GitHub, fair, but what an incredibly out-of-place sentiment for a FOSS project
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