I love the idea of the decentralized services, but trying to browse global all is a nightmare. Even browsing local all I have a ton of communities blocked and add more every day. The only downside is when communities I like migrate to a different instance. I still try global all once every few months, but it never lasts long.
Discoverability is my biggest issue with the subscribed feed. If I’m using subscribed, I’m not finding new communities. Curating a set of base communities that I want to see does seem like it would be worth the effort, though. Thanks for the suggestion.
On Lemmy I browse Subscribed until I run out of new posts. Then I switch to All and look for communities to add. Over time I’ve been spending more and more time on Subscribed, as my list grows.
This post is about Mastodon, I haven’t been able to figure that place out yet.
Well, not to shit on the idea too much, but right now as of posting, looking at ~100 posts in the feed and the majority are bots, automated posts, or otherwise "brand" posts, not just regular people, and a few are Threads users or bridged Bluesky/Xitter accounts.
I have tried to use Mastodon, and I appreciate what is is, but I just don’t see the appeal. It feels like I’m trying to interact with nothing, and no one, ever seeing it. Feels like speaking to the void.
The feeling is that simply having it be public isn't an automatic license to re-use or "re-appropriate" the content outside of what's required for normal network functionality. From that perspective, federating a post to a normal Mastodon / fediverse server = OK, viewing that post in your browser = OK, but many other uses = not OK.
This subset of the userbase want the norm for "extracurricular uses" of people's posts to be opt-in only, even for public posts. I kind of envy the idea in some ways (aggressive requirement of consent), though in the world we currently live in, it does seem unrealistic without a team of lawyers behind it.
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This is so cool
People really do be needing to look at the Local and Global timelines. There’s a lot of chatter about regular, non-linuxy things there.
Honestly, I think I’m completely sold on the idea that the Local timeline should be the default.
That’s already the case for a few instances
I know. But the post is about Mastodon.
As far as I know, Mastodon doesn’t even support assigning a default feed.
Misskey forks do, if you are interested
I love the idea of the decentralized services, but trying to browse global all is a nightmare. Even browsing local all I have a ton of communities blocked and add more every day. The only downside is when communities I like migrate to a different instance. I still try global all once every few months, but it never lasts long.
Subscribed should definitely be the main feed for most people, that’s the best way to get a curated feed.
Getting multiple personal feeds would also help.
Discoverability is my biggest issue with the subscribed feed. If I’m using subscribed, I’m not finding new communities. Curating a set of base communities that I want to see does seem like it would be worth the effort, though. Thanks for the suggestion.
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On Lemmy I browse Subscribed until I run out of new posts. Then I switch to All and look for communities to add. Over time I’ve been spending more and more time on Subscribed, as my list grows.
This post is about Mastodon, I haven’t been able to figure that place out yet.
this is why I usually browse Lemmy in new/comments/all, I just wish it had more than one page at a time or the ability to set more posts in one page
Summit offers that, I’d imagine plenty of other clients do too
Pretty much every client I’ve used doesn’t handle hexbear emojis particularly well, so I stick to browser. I’ll give that a try though.
Summit seems to deal with inline images fine which I would guess covers that
it renders them correctly - I just checked- but it doesn’t show the site-specific emoji picker, it just has a default plaintext one:
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/76bf598f-6de7-48da-b9d7-259cf93e3712.png">
I would guess that’s because it’s not standard Lemmy code, I think I read recently that hexbear uses it’s own fork to add things like that
Photon has infinite scrolling :). lemmyusa.com runs it
Hello,
When are you planning to update to 0.19.8?
Here in the next few weeks. I want to ensure nothing breaks, but I really just haven’t gotten around to it.
Nice!
This is what people didn’t want. But it was inevitable that eventually that people would stop complaining about the newest iteration of this.
Well, not to shit on the idea too much, but right now as of posting, looking at ~100 posts in the feed and the majority are bots, automated posts, or otherwise "brand" posts, not just regular people, and a few are Threads users or bridged Bluesky/Xitter accounts.
Doing a quick label:
I have tried to use Mastodon, and I appreciate what is is, but I just don’t see the appeal. It feels like I’m trying to interact with nothing, and no one, ever seeing it. Feels like speaking to the void.
Anyone know if this harm was anything more than just hitting API limits?
I have no idea.I tried yesterday to figure out what that ment…but the original site is down.
There's a pretty strong no-scraping (and scraping-adjacent) sentiment within Mastodon
People are upset that the things they posted publicly are viewable publicly?
The feeling is that simply having it be public isn't an automatic license to re-use or "re-appropriate" the content outside of what's required for normal network functionality. From that perspective, federating a post to a normal Mastodon / fediverse server = OK, viewing that post in your browser = OK, but many other uses = not OK.
This subset of the userbase want the norm for "extracurricular uses" of people's posts to be opt-in only, even for public posts. I kind of envy the idea in some ways (aggressive requirement of consent), though in the world we currently live in, it does seem unrealistic without a team of lawyers behind it.