Sync for Reddit also has avatars. I had my weird little snoo character, but I have seen plenty of people's uploaded avatars. I imagine it's a setting you had disabled.
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
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Yeah it's a setting that's off by default it looks like. I reinstalled the app recently and remember having to turn it back on to see them again.
Well, reddit had chat and we weren't allowed to have it because they decided they didn't want to create an AP for 3rd parties to use.
I wouldn't presume Lemmy will lock features to its own app or site in an effort to monetize them or keep their users in their own apps.
I expect that ljdawson will bring in the features of the Lemmy site over to the app as he sees fit. And that we'll have a pretty complete experience.
Lemmy doesn't have "their own app" nor does it have "its own site". It's all open source. There is no one company behind it. The one issue that might arise is that the open source project is being led by a bunch of developers who could in theory go rogue, but people would just create a fork (kinda like a copy) of the source code and create their own lemmy instances. On top of that, Lemmy instance admins would likely not install the updates from the main developers.
Don't worry, we're safe here.
Forever and ever :3
"here" is subjective on federated platforms. If the people running kbin.social or lemmy.world go full Spez/Musk and start doing restrictions and ads, there's nothing to do but leave. It's just easier to leave when a fair amount of the communities you're in aren't hosted on your home instance.
Don't worry, we're safe here.
It does seem that way. I'm thankful for reddit dropping the ball so hard so we could have this sooner.
If there are missing features from the Lemmy API, that can be requested or even someone can implement them themselves. Pending approval from the project maintainers, they'll be made a part of the main branch of Lemmy and thus all updated Lemmy instances will have access to these new API features.
Lemmy got avatars? You mean those profile pictures?
Yeah lol. It says Avatars when I uploaded it .
I hope. It is nice to recognize users by their avatar color scheme at a glance.
Sync for Reddit included them, they were just off by default.