Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse

Post by account42 » Wed, Sep 08, 2021, 9:19 AM UTC

Apocalypsenear wrote: post #109

radicalriddler wrote: post #75

I would define myself as pretty progressive, but Reddit's been absolutely dog** due to all the anti-capitalist, populist rhetoric. Every post seems to be filled with comments these days of "eat the rich". Like, you'll have a gif of a dude petting a dog, and then in the comments, they'll be like, "Bro, you're financially oppressing this dog and that's why it's forced to be pet by you" (Hyperbole, but I've seen some cr…

Which is why Lemmy needs more users to promote diversity and mainstream usage. Right now its filled with leftists mostly because they get banned from sites like reddit. The thing I enjoy about Lemmy is that you can join an instance and if you don't agree with the policies and the people there you can join a different instance.

Post by Tmpod » Wed, Sep 08, 2021, 9:25 AM UTC

reginold wrote: post #49

unraveller wrote: post #39

The front-end is still buggy and needs a designer's touch. And the real-time aspects wear thin at scale with all the notifications in a mismatch of languages showing up in the main feed. Lemmy is practically unusable without a personal feed filter, it seems that of the new reddit alternatives only retalk_[1] want to get this right. If you do decide to run an instance of lemmy be sure to nuke the absurd word filter -…

How strange they would include word filters that are hard to edit. Seems counter to their whole mission...what? Edit: actually it would make sense if word filters themselves were hard to add. But having their own filter and making that hard to edit is bonkers.

Post by tadzik_ » Wed, Sep 08, 2021, 9:52 AM UTC

numpad0 wrote: post #116

tadzik_ wrote: post #112

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Independent as in: closed off? Servers that don't federate are extremely rare ime, except for the likes of Gab that most people just choose not to federate with.

Remote follow don’t work as good as hardcore users would like it to. Federation mechanisms would have to have kilo- to mega-posts/second bandwidth but not happening. Also that federation choice being in hand of instance owners makes an account on each instances a must. You are going to have a person or two that your instance owners don’t like, or instance or two that don’t like yours.

Post by tasuki » Wed, Sep 08, 2021, 10:36 AM UTC

asymptosis wrote: post #104

codetrotter wrote: post #102

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From a cursory look running the backend is close to as simple as installing libpq and then cargo build --release and then creating the PostgreSQL user and database, and editing a config file then running the lemmy binary. I don’t see a problem. Serving the frontend cannot be a challenge either I imagine but I didn’t bother looking at the frontend.

Thanks for the pointer. I guess I was more thinking about the culture involved in explicitly denouncing a from-source build. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

Post by type0 » Wed, Sep 08, 2021, 10:49 AM UTC

ddingus wrote: post #93

unraveller wrote: post #22

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The creators say they don't want people not of their ilk joining so this idea that open debate is welcome is disingenuous. They don't allow anyone to federate with the main instance either if they don't also toe the political line.

I did not say it was welcome. Learning how to talk with others and understand one another better is real work. I did say it was worth doing, more or less.