the difference is the level of control

X and Facebook are closed source, so you can’t review them and they could be hiding stuff in their code or just do things people don’t like and we can’t revert

they also control the servers and don’t let you self host, so they can make bad admin decisions and there’s nothing we can do

and they also horde the content so you can’t get it from somewhere else, which means you can’t just leave and use a different platform (not easily at least)

over here if you don’t like the devs then you don’t need to donate to them, you don’t need to use their instance, or we can fork their code, or even use an alternative (like Mbin vs Lemmy)

you could try following people from here: https://fediverse.info/explore/people?t=photography

Pixelfed is growing like crazy (as always make sure to read the Y-axis labels)

https://pixelfed.fediverse.observer/dailystats

Hopefully they get good integration with Lemmy and get some of that content showing up over here too lol

is there something like this for Mastodon? I think microblogging really needs a content discovery algorithm for the mainstream audience

omg the top comment just got deleted with over 500 upvotes

I think it was when it was edited to include specific links to Lemmy instances, instead of the join-lemmy.org website

I still see the comment on Spaduf’s profile, but it shows as deleted in the post

I think maybe the link to lemmy.world is what triggered their filter? because that was edited in

@einat2346@lemmy.today actually dbzer0 doesn’t have access to your IP address, only lemmy.today sees it

for everyone else it’s the instance that your account lives on

the Mastodon user has to do an @ tag for the community in their toot, so if @community@instance.com is in their toot then it’ll show up on that Lemmy community

I’ve been enjoying Boost lately

I’m surprised they’re still on 0.18.4. They made that big post complaining about moderation actions not federating, then the 0.18.5 hotfix came out and the only change was that fix, and they never updated anyways? I even put a comment on their post to let them know the hotfix for their issue. There’s no database changes, it’s the simplest update.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4406

I’m surprised there was no issue filed for this already, maybe I just failed to find it, but I made a new issue

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4412

if anyone wants to give it a thumbs up reaction then the devs will know to prioritize it, and if you have any ideas you could leave a comment there

Edit: that was somewhat a duplicate of this issue

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2951

Give that one a thumbs up

that was fixed, I think in v0.19.0, but your instance hasn’t updated yet

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/720

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1896

all this because of misuse of the latest tag and unwillingness to downgrade the version? lol seems a little excessive but hopefully it turns out good

Yeah I think there needs to be more options though, for admins and for users. Like conditional caching or proxying of images from other instances.

And not just blocking instances but choosing to block all the users from an instance without blocking their communities, or only blocking their comments not their posts. Also admins should be able to set default blocks that all the users get but can change individually

Sure unless your instance is defederated, we need more ways to control the content without relying on defederation

It makes me feel like I should be making the post to multiple communities, but then I feel like I’m spamming

sorry what do you mean?

the feature request is suggesting the ability to disallow link posts, as well as the ability to disallow text posts

Ability to disallow certain kinds of posts (text posts/link posts) in specific communities

Currently it is not possible to disallow using the text field or URL field in specific communities.

Similarly one could imagine a setting to disallow using the URL field, for example in a conversation-only community.

which did you want?

I guess this feature request would help you?

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3809

So communities could disallow link posts

Yeah at the very minimum you should tell them which instance to use, don’t make them choose

just a guess, but looks like it’s listing every upvote as a reblog by the community?

the list could combine all the reblogs by the same user into a single line, no need to show multiple I think