Lots of people don't like those communities that are filled with bot posts. A lot of people even disable viewing of bot posts. Most of those bot posts have 0 comments.
I just don't think they're a good example to support your case.
They may as well just use phpbb at this point.
idk I think even with federation fully disabled, Lemmy is still better than phpbb
I think the holdup is that previously SMS was paid for through your carrier, so Google can let any app use it and no one loses money. Now the main RCS instance is hosted by Google, and I guess Google doesn't want other apps freeloading on their servers since you're not paying for RCS directly like you are paying your carrier. It really sucks and I hope it gets resolved soon, especially with Apple joining in. We also need a good open source RCS server and client.
I think this is a pretty big problem with how people are using Lemmy in general
https://lemmyverse.net/communities shows 27,726 communities
https://join-lemmy.org/instances says Lemmy has 42.2k monthly active users (as of v0.19.0 that's including people who only vote and don't post/comment)
I just think that's way too many communities to be sustainable, people jumped on Lemmy and tried to create a community to match every subreddit, and then they did it on multiple different instances too.
I'm not sure how to improve this. You could delete communities but then you lose post history and subscribers. You could close communities and make a pinned post, but then they clutter search results and they definitely look dead, because they are. There could maybe be a new Lemmy feature added to merge a community into another one (moving the posts over and then deleting the old community) but that would have complications with subscribers on other instances.
I don't think this feature exists yet, you should request it on their GitHub
the cross-post button is the correct way to do it, but sometimes I do delete the > at the start of each line to remove the quote block
currently the "cross-posted to:" thing is based on the link URL, so text-posts don't have that for now, but any link post will get it automatically if you used the cross-post button
(easy solution is to have a url for every post, even if it's just a simple image)
And Reddit announced that NSFW results would not be returned by the API (which basically renders apps useless for many users)
And of course many subs use the NSFW flag for spoilers too, so you could really be missing out on a lot. On r/StarCraft they use the NSFW tag for recent tournament results, which is like the main thing I would want to discuss on there lol
The default browser on most Android smartphones will raise its minimum OS requirement to Android 8.0 with the Chrome 120 release in early 2024.
The minimum version for Google Calendar for Android is also now Android 8.0
if you want to browse All then I think you might want to ban some of the meme communities
also v0.19.0 is adding the Scaled sorting method, which should help you see those niche communities more again
go to https://voyager.lemmy.ml/ to test it out, they need help finding bugs anyways
I don’t remember seeing any significant performance/grapical differences
CPUs weren't multicore back then, this wouldn't have been to improve performance really, they'd use "green threads" to conveniently run code with waits in it, and it sounds like they had a task queue of green threads
You can disable bot posts in your user settings, or just ban that 1 user
Die4Ever
joined 1 year ago
There are so many communities for games (too many...) I'll try to stick with the most active ones that haven't been mentioned yet