I know that feeling, which is why I moved to Firefox quite a long time ago.
Jumped around some forks for a bit, and now I'm settled on Floorp for desktop and Mull for Android.
matt
joined 2 years ago
This one is hard, but currently I think I'd have to go with folklore or evermore by Taylor Swift, which I'm sure is going to be very different to most suggestions you'll get!
I'm not really a Taylor Swift fan, but her alternative / country albums from 2020 blew me away, as I'm very much about that style of music. Shame she went back to doing standard pop, I was hoping she'd continue that way.
If you're wanting a Firefox-based browser with sidebar / vertical tabs, I'd take a look at Floorp.
It aims to be a Gecko equivalent to things like Vivaldi, you can get it at https://floorp.app. The recent version 11 release is fantastic.
For what it's worth, !community@instance has been a standard of sorts for Fediverse groups since 2018, when Friendica implemented them. Lemmy communities are simply Fediverse groups which is why they use this syntax, and I suspect it will probably be the one adopted by Mastodon as well when they do groups (although who knows? Whatever Mastodon decides is what will be standard across the entire Fediverse).
These sorts of instances are private - you can't sign up to them, only the new organizations post on them.
In your example, people who have the "bad instances" blocked won't see the replies under the posts in question, as the instance will not fetch replies from said source.
With how Mastodon works as well, it won't fetch replies from instances until they're known either, so brand new instances aren't going to flood popular comment sections - this is a bit of a con though in a way, as it degrades the user experience when trying to read threads and causes people to constantly post the same stuff as they can't see all the replies.
Officially, as stated in my post, it is not – Mastodon does not want “likes” on the platform.
Sorry, this doesn't make sense. Even the link you post in the OP says it's a like button (literally the first post by Gargron), it just doesn't federate... I'm also not sure if you're aware, but all likes federate to the server that the post is on, so the poster will see all likes they receive, it then just doesn't federate further to everyone else looking at it.
It seems your hang up is that it's called favourite, and making a bunch of assumptions because of this.
Personally I think they should be renamed likes because of situations like this.
It's a like button.
People overcomplicate this, but this is literally the use-case for it: You are letting a user know that you like their post. Boosts are the button to share a post with your followers. I'm not entirely sure how it's pointless that you are letting someone know you liked their post, I love getting favourites on my posts on Mastodon, not everything is about virality.
it wouldn’t make sense since the whole point of boosting something is to tell the public that you like a post.
Regarding this, it does do this, but for users of your instance (since as you say, they are not federated). This does have an advantage actually, as the trending posts section of the Explore tab will show you posts that are primarily liked by people on your instance, which means if you're part of an instance for a specific type of community, you will see more stuff related to your interests rather than "what everyone is liking."
I think this disconnect here on Lemmy comes from why people use the platforms they did before (Reddit vs Twitter).
Reddit was always purely content focused, and I feel people trying out Mastodon from Lemmy are expecting the same thing - where Mastodon is about content, and not people you want to follow.
I also love Mastodon as well and I don't think the issues people are posting about in here are issues at all either, as Mastodon being about directly connecting with people and a purely chronological feed is why I like it - if I want to search content relating to a topic, I browse Lemmy instances instead.
No, because what is the chance people will give up YouTube?
Not very high, I'd say!
Wouldn't things like trains and buses be more dense because you can design them to have multiple floors?
This is, of course, not true for all of them but it's definitely the case in many places.
They're extremely different to whatever you imagine Taylor Swift to be, these are much more "lowkey" (for lack of a better term) and I think she pulls them off brilliantly, but compared to the rest of her discography nobody really talks about them as they're not really upbeat or radio songs.