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Dark side of the rule in c/[email protected]

[–] thayer 6 points 1 year ago

Different strokes for different folks, I guess. I consider my musical tastes to be broad and Pink Floyd remains one of my favourite bands of all time.

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Rediggit for Lemmy has been renamed to Lemonberry...now with dark mode (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by thayer to c/[email protected]

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Cross-posting this from https://lemmy.ca/post/1271596 due to the current federation situation:

A new version of my Rediggit theme for Lemmy has dropped, and with it comes a name change...

Rediggit is now Lemonberry, to better reflect the separation from Reddit.

I've also added a much-requested dark mode, adapted from Lemmy's default darkly theme. Those familiar with the Reddit Enhancement Suite's dark mode should find this pretty comfortable.

The latest version of Lemonberry is optimized for Lemmy v0.18.1 only and is available on GitHub and UserStyles. I will likely keep the optimizations in sync with only the larger instances as Lemmy development is changing rapidly, and it's proving difficult to maintain compatibility with older versions.

You can also find older versions of the theme, and additional screenshots, at the GitHub repo.

If you have no idea what any of this means, Lemonberry is a flexible, full-width light and dark theme for Lemmy. It is just one of many user-made themes for this community. These themes can be installed and enabled with the use of a CSS injector browser add-on, such as Stylus (Firefox, Chrome). UserStyles.world is a good place to start exploring the available themes.

Cheers

nelso's illustration are so soothing in c/mentalhealth

[–] thayer 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tried to search for this artist's internet presence and all hits either require a user account or don't work at all...some days, the web really sucks...

Twitter:

Instagram:

madebynelson.co:

Experimenting with unified instance themes in c/[email protected]

[–] thayer 2 points 1 year ago

“Unified branding” kinda misses the entire mark of “federated but decentralized” that this network of services is supposed to be all about.

I don't think it does. Decentralized doesn't mean every instance must appear unique from one another, though they certainly can if that is their wish. There's no reason why a group of common instances shouldn't want to provide a unified approach to branding their platform.

You’ve mocked up a really clean looking theme, but I’d never use it personally because it’s light-mode and it would burn the eyeballs out of my head at night.

Thanks, the theme is just my usual rediggit for lemmy (the dark variant is coming soon). The point of the post was just to highlight the navbar logo concept.

Experimenting with unified instance themes in c/[email protected]

[–] thayer 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Many instances will absolutely want to do their own branding across the board, and that's totally fine, but I also believe that many would like to see a unified approach to the platform. The beauty of the decentralization is that site admins are free to run their instance however they like.

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Experimenting with unified instance themes (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by thayer to c/[email protected]

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Thought I'd share some ideas I've been floating, to implement a unified branding across all instances. Instances could opt-in for a consistent identity across the platform, using an official trademark with their instance address embedded below it. Instances that use "lemmy" in their second-level domain name would simple append their .tld (such as .world), or use .sld.tld when "lemmy" is accessible from a subdomain (such as .dbzer0.com). Seemingly unrelated domain names, such as beehaw.org, would just omit the leading dot.

The navbar background itself could be further customized by the local instance. I imagine something like a watermark of a globe for lemmy.world, or a watermarked maple leaf for lemmy.ca, etc.

Obviously this is a very rough take on things (including the art style), and I'm just brainstorming ideas at this point.

What are your thoughts?

Can I block posts about Reddit? in c/nostupidquestions

[–] thayer 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

No such feature exists yet on the desktop version, but I am sure it's on the wishlist already. Apps might be able to implement this themselves, but I can't say whether any have yet.

Edit: clarified

PSA: Lemmy.world is having some heavy federation issues lately. in c/support

[–] thayer 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's almost certainly technical issues relating to scalability. The user I mentioned above has created a community for tracking several performance issues that are likely impacting the platform now that user and post counts have increased exponentially.

PSA: Lemmy.world is having some heavy federation issues lately. in c/support

[–] thayer 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No worries, and I completely sympathize with the situation. My hat is off to you site admins, and the lemmy devs, for keeping things afloat these past couple of weeks, often at great expense of both time and money. I am confident that all of these kinks will be ironed out in the coming months, and in the meantime I am happy to have a few alts to hold me over.

PSA: Lemmy.world is having some heavy federation issues lately. in c/support

[–] thayer 90 points 1 year ago (10 children)

It isn't just Lemmy.world, and isn't limited to v0.17 either. Lemmy.ca, which has been running v0.18 for days, is also not seeing a lot of federated content, nor accurate community subscription counts from other instances, including lemmy.ml and others running v0.18. I'm posting this from my .world alt because .ca is showing zero comments in this thread.

There have been several not-so-friendly comments made about the issues by someone in [email protected], calling out the site admins of .world and .ml for not sharing their server logs, and the overall silence on the issue. The user's concerns are genuine, but I don't agree with their behaviour.

I suspect the devs were/are completely overwhelmed by the mass influx of redditors these past two weeks. I assume someone is looking into it, but frankly I wouldn't blame anyone if they chose to step away for a few days. I think a lot of folks (particularly "the masses") forget that these are largely volunteer efforts, by people with day jobs.

I wish there were a more old-reddit style theme option for Lemmy. in c/[email protected]

[–] thayer 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You're welcome to check out my theme, Rediggit at UserStyles.world. I'm not trying to make a 1:1 copy of old.reddit, but rather just take the best of what I like about the minimalist interfaces. I'm pushing changes almost daily, and will be releasing an update for v0.18 very soon.

Federated Git server in c/fediverse

[–] thayer 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wasn't aware of the sanctions, so thanks for sharing that! As for the AI, it is inevitable if the source code is public. Having it hosted elsewhere might slow the consumption, but it's coming regardless.

Still, I do think a federated platform is a great idea. The more we can do without relying on a centralized, corporate platform, the better off we'll be as a society.

[Meta] There is a typo in this community name, need to move over to [email protected] in c/[email protected]

[–] thayer 2 points 1 year ago

I do wish this wasn't the case. It easily allows for abuse and makes it harder to identify a community in the post metadata, especially on mobile.

Reddit claimed to have been hacked by BlackCat, and it has threatened to leak the data in c/world

[–] thayer 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A snapshot of all of reddit's public text posts up to March 2023 runs about 38GB compressed (zstd) on archive.org. Decompressed, it's well over 300GB.

An internal zstd of 80GB may contain private messages as well or other morsels.