ghostalmedia

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hiding subscriber counts is intentional at join-Lemmy.org. They were being displayed about 2 weeks ago, but new users saw them, viewed actively as a form of social proof, and only signed up with large instances.

Problem is, those large instances are starting to break now. They can’t scale fast enough to meet demand.

Moreover, if you signup for a small instance, you can still subscribe to communities from another instance. Communities are shared between instances.

IMHO, we should be displaying stats like response time and integration with the federation network. That’s what is actually important for most folks. If you only focus on local activity, you’re going to have a bad time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Weird, I saw this on Lemmy.world. Did something change?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

What is Yew Tube?

That said, BDG… so, upvote?

 
[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This NSFW protest was the perfect funeral for a website that became famous with the jizz box, poop knife, etc.

I was pretty sad to see a platform I loved die, but sadness was replaced with laughter over the past few days. Seeing middle aged dads posts their hairy buttholes out of anger. 🤌😘

 

Mobile web for beehaw support is a page and a half of stickies. It’s not a particular great user experience. 😬

I feel like, Lemmy’s default sorting would've naturally given many of these posts some organic prominence.

 

I’m honestly super confused about what you can and can’t do when federation ties have been cut.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I generally reserve my downvotes for three things. People being jerks, people dishing out incorrect information, and reposts.

But I’m also a beehaw main, and downvoting is disabled for the entire instance. I only downvote on my lesser used accounts for other instances.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some instances have downvoting disabled. Beehaw.org for example.

They’re trying to encourage positive communication, so they have it turned off. Upvotes only.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder how much of this caving in was, because a lot of lame mods were worried about losing their past time and or control over large communities.

There are a lot of little Lukashenkos out there that will immediately cave to a bully as long as they’re allowed to remain in control.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Not news? IMHO, it’s obviously news. Enough people noticed that Google’s search results were popping the bed that it got picked up by Reuters, NPR, CNN, etc.

That said, the News mods could’ve merged all these stories into one sticky thread. A lot of other mods did that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Umm. Overwatch 2 PvP has always been free to play. Only thing they could’ve ever purchased was cosmetics and add ons for the base free game.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

100% has this happen today. Wanted and answer, the only answer was on Reddit, and the Google link was busted.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Makes sense. Windows kind of felt like it was built by a lazy person in the 90’s.

 

Over the past few days many admins have been stickying giant posts, which makes scrolling through Mlem a little rough.

Any plans to have a feed that truncates or completely hides the body of posts?

 
 

For example, I would love to create a community about home automation in Apple's ecosystem. How would I do that?

 
 

Two words. Midi bagpipes

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