andobando

My coding style has always been to get out the core functionality then fix everything up, definitely not for everyone. Might be something I need to reconsider when working with others.

I love carbon, but I chose Ionic is because its very suited for mobile development. On the other hand it seems to have very severe limitations for mobile so it seems I have to pull in something else in as well.

The page load takes way too long (you should be using #await whenever possible)

I will, though part of the reason its slow is because its hitting lemmys backend over the network, as opposed to just a local network in a normal setup.

Turning a crank for 8 hours a day is pretty tough, I dunno.

Right now its just fetching from lemmy.world. But I have my own instance on the same server as the front end client I can point it to.

Can they? It doesnt seem so simple because they have no way of knowing which posts are edited in good faith vs not.

They can try to undo comments which sre repeated 10x+ times or something I guess, but editing users comments seems like a really bad move

I mean you can still create the old style forums. If you want a single log in, just add Oauth, not sure why you need the whole activitypub protocol. But presumable if you want to stay in a little community, creating a few logins is barely a problem.

I like the old style mentality of small communities. I hate reddit. But sites like reddit/twitter are fundamentally different. You NEED a sizeable amount of content/users. I am not saying this needs to grow into reddits scale, in fact Im happy at the scale lemmy.world is at, but I would like to see a decentralized alternative to a corporate monolith. To me that looks like several hundred or thousands of instances of anywhere between 20-100k users each. To achieve that, we have to balance the influx of new users into different instances, which is why I am talking about inter-discoverability within instances. Otherwise you have a couple instances which get all the traffic and that turns right back into reddit. But maybe there is a different way to achieve that.

Does that make sense?

What I hate about those award crap is they basically gave you a paid way to highlight the fuck out of posts with changing the background, making it shoot rockets, or whatever else.

That's because I am confused on what I am asking for myself, but I can't figure it out until I have discussions about it.

I will say the search page feels incredibly disjointed though; I think it should group all the same content (communities, posts, comments) instead of whatever it does right now.

This is one thing. Another is a being able to possibly toggle views of different instances within one UI. Another is something like multireddits, where you can view multiple communities contents together (/r/funny from one instance, and another).

It sounds to me like you’re asking for some sort of discoverability/content recommendations, perhaps? If this is the case, the general Fediverse culture tends to be against this sort of stuff as they see them as systems that promote more screen time and unhealthy habits, instead of actually engaging with what you know you want to engage with.

Thats a reasonable concern. The problem however I see is that if you don't have way to easily discover communities, or have a way in which communities link to each other, then you end up with a single or perhaps couple massive instances and were essentially back to where we started.

Back in the day, the single entry point of discoverability used to be Google. You'd search for some topic and come onto some forum of that topic. That's no longer really an option. If every instance is isolated on its own domain with no gateway between them, I don't see much point to the fediverse.

The biggest problem to starting a new social media alternative has been the critical mass needed. I see the fediverse as a way of solving this problem, as you already have a bunch of users/content which can be shared with new instances.

Edit your content, dont just delete

That makes sense, but I am failing to see the issue. As long as one instance, or any single user from one instance makes that instance aware of the existence of another instance (currently by pasting the url of that instance in the community search), that is now visible and discoverable to all users.

Or worst case, your instance calls some aggregator, like browse.feddit.de to fetch all known instances.

All I am asking for a better UI for viewing content across these instances. What that looks like I am not totally sure. > Communities

I mean if you look at https://lemmy.world/communities/listing_type/All/page/1, you can already see a bunch of communities from other instances

I need to do some reading on how the fediverse works under the hood but if browse,feddit.de has visbility of all instances then certaintly there is a way for any instance that chooses to federate to have visibility into the fediverse

It seems like Jerboa uses GPLv3 as well, as does Bitwarden and some other open source apps. Its probably ok though it seems like it can run into trouble way down the line. Im going to keep the GPLv3 for now.