Once the service stops using Twitter, it could be considered a full “switch” I suppose.

I think there should be an option (unless there is) for mods to turn off (or hide) voting as needed. That might be an effective way to cancel any downvote brigades. Lemmy really doesn’t have the population for mass vote manipulation now, but it will soon enough.

Hiding all votes can also help mitigate some superficial bias, but not all. I believe that if a person sees a comment with a few dozen downvotes first, they tend not to read the post objectively. After being on Reddit for such a long time (12 years or so), I found that it was super easy to manipulate voting trends if I caught a post or comment at just the right time.

Hiding only downvotes is just silly though. Some register of public opinion, positive or negative, still has its uses, IMHO.

Yep! The developer of Connect for Lemmy is getting caffeinated on a regular basis by me. It’s a perfect fit for the RIF gap in my heart. ;)

He/She(?) is doing an awesome job and it’s amazing how far this app has come in just a few short weeks. I am trying to keep the dev motivated as much as possible, for sure!

My only gripe is that it’s not open source, but that is OK.

Is there a status page for the status page?

Goodbye.

It’s possible that the console is clearing the visible logs when the page gets refreshed after you hit submit. If that is not the case, see if you can trap the HTTP response code after your browser sends the POST. There are a million and one ways this issue could be happening.

If it gets really bad, use a HTTP(s) man in the middle tool like Fiddler or even OWASP Zap to capture the full exchange. That may give you some more hints.

It could be the app that you are using, that Lemmy is still going through growing pains with the new flood of traffic or your phone/PC just hates you.

You are probably going to have to track down the debug logs on whatever device and app you are using to see if there are any post errors.

Oh. Never trust any web forms on any site, especially if you are typing a big message. I know it’s a pain, but selecting and copying your words is good insurance for long posts.

I’ll always be 15 in my heart and other sites do suck.

I hope you like Linux, btw. You are hanging with some old school nerds now. :)

To be fair, that is still going to happen. Everyone just needs to learn the phrase, “Don’t be a dick!”. ;)