IMHO as a random user is that, given the nature of the fediverse, that makes more sense to be an option for instance admins. I'm personally more inclined to leave that decision to each user, but I see how the network effects play a role and how someone would want to enforce their decission on their own instances.
Anyway, it's an interesting discussion and I like to try to understand the consquences of each implementation.
You just reasked my first TL;DR question :).
Thanks for the info, but I’m not asking how to fix it for a single community, I’m asking how to handle it for >200 subscriptions
I'm not an expert, so those who know more, please correct me.
FYI: with the script User Details on Hover you can also see karma in Lemmy. Example.
From what I understand, there are technical issues with this. Allowing people to hide the karma if they want is easy. But blocking people for seeing karma even if they want is much harder. Note that if you want karma for posts and comments (to be able to sort the most voted ones), then the user karma is just a very easy query away (just sum the karma of that user's posts and comments). EDIT: I realize that this would not solve the issue either: ~~There are technical ways to do anonymous and auditable voting, but I think that would be too overkill for the fediverse.~~
It seems that the artist is no longer updating their DeviantArt account.
But they update their ArtStation’s: https://www.artstation.com/Ninjatic
… also ArtStation does not hide their RSS feeds and does not limit to 10 images per page (unless you pay).
Artist blog: http://www.nathanfowkesart.com/
With more up to date posts than in DA (and with a non-hidden RSS feed).
This only works for reading the content, but you cannot post or comment via RSS.
EDIT: Also, RSS feeds only contain the last N elements, so the apps would need to store all the data from Reddit... which is not practical.
The RSS Feed with the comments of a post is on [POST URL]/comments.rss. Example:
https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/152prch/reddit_app_sucks_so_bad/comments.rss
The first entry is the post with the content and the next ones are the comments (all). Of course there is no nesting structure in the RSS, you need to go to reddit for that.
EDIT: There most probably be a limit in the number of elements of a feed, so if you try that with a post that already has a lot of comments, you will probably see only the last N ones. But if you add the RSS Feed of the comments of new post to your RSS Reader, it will most probably store all the elements over time, so you will have all of them there (and not only the last N ones).... unless the comments are posted too fast and/or the updating frequency of your RSS Reader is too slow.
I don't follow AndroidArts too closely (it's not OC). AFAIK it's just an experiment, but I could be wrong.
Thanks for the warning! I'm doing a backup of the subscriptions and will check in a few days.