1st Feb is #GlobalSwitchDay
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If it looks like anything of the past then it looks like the web from 10-15 years ago pre-mass-enshittification, maybe people have forgotten what non user hostile websites look like.
Photon has infinite scrolling, which is horrible.
Infinite scrolling is optional and also a feature the majority of users (not hyper specific tech nerds) want. If we are to have any hope of bringing the average social media user onto these platforms, we have to design it for them. Most of the addictiveness comes from the algorithm (lemmy lacks a personalized one), not necessarily the infinite scrolling itself
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Really wish Loops had an Android app.
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The Element application is solid now. Still I think it'd be a rough transition for most discord users. But more users probably means more potential for developer interest
The Element application is solid now.
Eh, kind of. I have almost 300 unread message notifications I cannot get rid of. I have scrolled up as far as I can then slowly back down. I have gone into threads and done the same.
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Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.
Isn't lemmy the reddit of the fediverse?
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Fair point,
I omitted Facebook in my image because fuck that kind of social media (my opinion)
I picked PieFed over Lemmy because UX is everything and currently PieFed has much better UX.
Fuck that kind of social media but tiktok and Instagram are better?????
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There's also StoryGraph - it's not federated, but ran by a tiny UK company, but seems pretty popular. I like the content warnings feature and stuff like readers rating the pacing and moods of the books, which is then displayed with graphs on the book page, but they have also introduced some AI features
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In 2013 Goodreads was sold to Amazon
It's impressive how Goodreads has been owned by 10+ years by the company with the largest cloud infrastructure and supposedly great engineers, and still it loads like shitty personal blog from the 2000s. It's pretty obvious it was just bought so they could redirect traffic to Kindle store, just like IMDB redirects to Amazon Prime.
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I use compact on Piefed. It's a click in settings. I don't think this really means anything.
The op is complaining about default lemmy ui not being as much like new reddit as default piefed is not that there's other options
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It's a testament to (if nothing else) the ability of the piefed devs to behave like adults that I know nothing about them personally. Nu/Des are horrible people, both politically and interpersonally, but that's the beauty of FOSS: Those of us comfortable with separating the software from the creators get to stick with the software we prefer over one that lacks features or broad support (i.e. all the piefed apps I've tried have been pretty rough). Same energy as why people still use windows instead of linux.
I'd argue that it is more because so many people have hate comms and groups set up specifically to target the lemmy devs. Idk why people hate Des so much
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Really? Huh, I have a decent amount of communities blocked and I've never seen a single post from anyone of them after implementing the block
User level community and instance blocks will stop you from seeing posts from those places, but it does not block their users or their comments, so you'd still be able to see them around in non-blocked communities.
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Maybe add Matrix as a Discord alternative?
Last time I checked theirs still no channels ? Discoverability is not really their ethier only active one I really found was the monero one
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Please add chess.com → lichess
Lichess is not on the fedi
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All due respect to Mastodon but BlueSky is way more viable right now.
Agreed and activitypub is great for creating a indie web kind of feel but it’s just a flawed model that brings the power dynamics of Reddit mods but with 0 checks to counteract it.
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Last time I checked theirs still no channels ? Discoverability is not really their ethier only active one I really found was the monero one
It now has workspaces (it's called servers in Discord) and there you can have chats, which are basically channels like in Discord.
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Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.
For things that you're using by yourself, sure, it's doable. However, for content creation, it's pretty hard. Some of those alternatives just don't have the critical mass yet. Maybe it would be an option to do both in parallel for some time before switching completely, but might not work for everybody.
Practical example: I'm a hobbyist photographer. Small timer, less than 1000 followers. My livelihood doesn't depend on this, but I'm still serious about it. I mainly do concerts and sport events (so a lot of things involving other people) and my main outlets are Facebook and Instagram. Switching to something else would mean either 1) that no one will see my work or 2) that people will see my photos on the alternative place, they'll copy them over and they'll still end up on Facebook and Instagram, but this time without my creative control (thus badly cropped and recompressed several times - so even if I pay special attention to those things when publishing by myself, the effort goes down the drain when someone else does it).
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User level community and instance blocks will stop you from seeing posts from those places, but it does not block their users or their comments, so you'd still be able to see them around in non-blocked communities.
You can also establish a user block though too, so if their comments in unblocked communities are making your experience less than ideal, just block that user.
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You can also establish a user block though too, so if their comments in unblocked communities are making your experience less than ideal, just block that user.
That's not a terribly good user experience if a user doesn't want to interact with or see any comments from users of a particular instance, as then it would require the user to manually block hundreds of users over a long span of time.
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Lets make February a switch month. It is impossible to switch in one day
Yes, you have one month time to switch and then on the first sunday of the next month you should talk about your switch with someone or post it somewhere. That's the idea of #DIDit.
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Lemmy and Piefed are both Reddit alternatives. I'm not sure what all the pros and cons are of each, but Lemmy's developers are tankies so probably better to direct users and funding to a different project. I'm only on Lemmy because I wasn't aware of Piefed when I first joined.
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And obviously the Piefed codebase is so politically and ethically agreeable… /s
No one likes the lemmy lead devs or their stances. But, to my knowledge, they just keep doing their own thing over at
.mland never channel it into their actual codebase.When I first started here, I was on Kbin, and switched to lemmy because it was so much better. I considered switching to Piefed exactly because of these reasons you mentioned (I've already switched lemmy instances, comment history is not an issue for me), but when I looked into it there were so many just frankly aggravating things about the way it works and filters stuff by default (not to mention being written in Python, but that's completely tangential) that I couldn't do it.
Sure, lemmy developers have backwards principles. But at least their software doesn't. I completely get why someone would use Piefed instead, especially if they're trans or of some other demographic directly targeted by the lemmy developers, but I wouldn't do it myself (unless it gets better, of course).
And obviously the Piefed codebase is so politically and ethically agreeable… /s
People are more likely to donate to a project that they actually use. If more people are using piefed, it means more money going to that project rather than a bunch of tankies. So I can see why people who disagree with the Lemmy devs might want to direct people elsewhere even if the software itself is apolitical.
