Oh boy have things changed. The big headline distros of today are more stable, functional and have a much wider variety of software than 2 years ago, let alone a decade ago.

That’s really surprising to me. I’ve been buying AMD only for many years now specifically because they have better Linux compatibility than Nvidia.

Imgur.io is pretty aight

Upload it to any of the hundreds of image upload sites, and link it with 

That’s basically how it works already. When a user on server A is looking at a community on server B, they’re not actually hitting server B. When the first person subscribes to the community, server A started downloading and caching all the content. The user is looking at it locally. Server A will then periodically synchronize with server B.

This means the primary load is on the server containing the users, not the server containing the community.

My theory is that it’s a combination of a few factors:

1. Smaller communities mean you’re likely to interact with the same people. Even if people don’t consciously think about it, they don’t want to be known as “that guy”

2. The first wave leaving Reddit were those most dissatisfied with how it worked, and are more committed to making this place work

3. Honeymoon phase. People are being far nicer and more considerate as it’s a new platform

If we can keep maybe 1/4 of that as the platform grows and changes, I’d take that as a win.

because I’m not afraid people will bite my head off for everything I say

How dare you! This is an atrocious thing to say and you should feel bad /s

Probably not even him. It’ll be done when it’s done, including testing. Nobody knows how many serious bugs are there until you test.

Because it was implemented using WebSockets, which was torn out for 0.18. They need to reimplement a captcha using HTTP instead. Not the most difficult job or anything, just didn’t make the cut for 0.18 in the interests of getting it out there.

I think it’s fine for now, personally. More important to have the overall population on the threadiverse grow and stabilize than hemming and hawing about user distribution.

What the development “should” look like is going to be different depending on who you ask. There’s naturally going to be lots of people disagreeing with me here, but here’s how I hope things shake out when things calm down and we have a more consistent long-term userbase:

What I hope is that we have a good mix of communal, regional and special interest instances, and a slow decline of “generalist” instances that try and be everything to everyone.

My definitions of those 4 types are as follows:

• Communal: an instance where the users predominantly share a worldview and/or social tendencies, so communication and decision-making is easier. Communities on these instances would be focused on these shared ideas.

• Regional: an instance for those from the same geographic area and that speak the same language. Communities on these instances are language-specific and region-specific versions of communities from other instances and local news.

• Special interest: an instance for those with the same profession, hobby and/or interests. Communities on these instances are all about the specific topic (whether programming, star trek or woodworking)

• Generalist: an instance with no real identity or direction outside of being an easy place to sign up.

I think the first 3 are important to the long-term health of the threadiverse, and should be emphasized.

Completely agree. Funding and hosting situation are still very much in flux for most instances, and most instances are so new that admins haven’t really had the time to figure out exactly how they want to run and organise things yet. Everything is very much in flux.

These are problems I think will go away naturally as things stabilize and clearer community identities, fundraising methods and organizational norms start forming.

My guess is they have a display name setup and you don’t?

Yup! That’s exactly what’s happening. I intentionally haven’t set one up, because gotta rep my home instance :P

This is a pretty bizarre question to me personally.

First of all, we don’t have to do anything. If you mean you were wondering if people will lynch you for using emojis, no clue. Try it and find out.

Second of all, the whole “build my personality to fit in” is exactly backwards. The whole point of the fediverse, instances, etc is that you find a community to fit you, not the other way around.

Third of all, this isn’t Reddit with tens of thousands of comments making anything more than a “yes” or “no” irrelevant. People actually have the time and space to consider things and answer them more fully here when there’s less spam.

Finally, the whole idea of a “mob policy” sounds concerning.

This is also my first time being a mod, but for a small community, doesn’t seem so bad so far. Take this advice with a huge grain of salt, I’m also a newbie:

1. Be a mod for a topic you actually care about and can contribute to

2. Delete any comments/posts that break the rules on your community

That’s… kind of it? I haven’t actually had to delete anything on my community yet, but it is tiny, so that’s probably a factor.

This will end exactly the same way the Twitter -> Mastodon thing ended.

Reddit will continue. A slightly worse Reddit, with more bots, more low-effort content, and less quality OC.

Moderation will degrade slightly as the admins replace protesting moderators with more obedient ones, and/or communities lose interest and use the new “voting” (lol) systems to pick admins which will give them the reliable dopamine hits.

A small percentage of Redditors, especially the power users, will move on. A small percentage in Reddit terms is a tidal wave for any other platform. Some percentage of that number of Redditors leaving will come here.

Lemmy & Kbin will experience growing pains. Issues caused by scaling up infrastructure, instance to instance friction, etc. These will get resolved with time. When things settle, we will have a fraction of reddit’s userbase, but neither will we need more. We’ll have enough to have stable, engaging communities which will slowly grow.

In other words, a mirror reflection of the Mastodon story.

Trite answer: When it’s done

More in-depth answer: Currently there’s no set date. It depends on how quickly they can tear out all the WebSockets code and replace it with simple HTTP (that’s the BIG change, will fix a lot of different things), and then test those changes. The hot_rank fix has already been merged, that’s done, but they want a stable, cohesive release with all the good stuff.

Current estimations I’ve seen range from 1-2 weeks, but it all depends on how fast they can get it coded and tested.

I’ve seen like 5 different posts about this already, I guess I’ll reply to this one too xD

Lemmy “Hot” ranking is currently kinda broken. There’s an edge case that stops the hot_rank column from decreasing, meaning the post never goes off the front page. Will be fixed in 0.18.

You can use your account to comment and post on communities on other instances. This does NOT mean your login will work on their site.

If you go to https://Lemmy.ml/C/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world you are now interacting with a community on that instance. The posts, comments and votes are synchronized across at a server-to-server level and cached in Lemmy.ml

I would get an account on a different instance anyway though, lemmy.ml is overloaded and needs people to spread out to different servers

There is a multi-reddit issue open on github. As soon as someone actually codes it, it’ll be there.

I’m trying to learn Rust atm to contribute, but very likely someone will code that up before I’m ready to actually submit pull requests and not be laughed out of the room.

Right now? Subscribe to a Kbin magazine (if they’re not still overloaded)