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Die4Ever

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  • If that's true then the problem will solve itself when Mbin or PieFed overtakes Lemmy. The content will be there anyways, we just need to see who brings the best UX/UI (or whatever frontend/app)

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  • Would I be decreasing people's operating costs if I just opened an account on example.lol so most of my interaction was on my home instance?

    Likely no. If one person on the instance is subscribed to a remote community, everything is synchronized anyways. If no one is subscribed to the remote community then it's probably a very small and low activity community anyways, which means it's a drop in the bucket difference.

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  • Whatever the hell the equivalent of a subreddit is called.

    That's communities. Did you have issues with the communities link at the top of the page? You can switch it to the "All" view.

    Also what the other comments said is good too, like for finding a very niche community I'll use https://lemmyverse.net/communities

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  • There's no "main" app. Think about Reddit before the API fees. There used to be a default app.

    Which app was this? Reddit's 1st party app? I didn't think it was very popular until they did the API fees, I never used it and I don't know anyone who did. Lemmy's 1st party app is Jerboa.

    If you have ideas for how to fix these issues, you should file issues on Github for how to improve

    https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues (or report the issues to whatever app you're using)

    There’s no recommendations feed.

    Is https://quiblr.com like what you're talking about? https://quiblr.com/understanding_your_private_personalized_feed

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  • What's a good way to explain it then?

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  • I think federation being (mostly) invisible is actually part of the problem.

    But fediverse platforms go out of their way to hide what they are, and to strip each website of its identity.

    In what way? I don't think Lemmy hides anything, the communities and usernames all have the @instancename.com at the end of them.

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  • What can we do?

    File issues on the GitHub for how to improve the UX, and put thumbs up reactions on issues so the devs know which issues to prioritize

    https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues

    Or even better, make pull requests if you're a dev

  • Looks like Lemmy is climbing up to the 2023 exodus days numbers again

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  • And my axe!

  • Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad?

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  • Is making user interaction between instances easier even possible in current state of fediverse and the protocol?

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  • Copying URL into search bar? That is really repelling.

    I wonder if Lemmy should have the search bar always visible, like Mastodon does

    or at least if your window is wide enough to fit it, otherwise it can collapse to the icon, I've got plenty of room up here

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  • Basically, I blame Lemmy.

    Peertube is older than Lemmy though.

    What you suggest isn't actually a bad idea, but if that was the goal then they shouldn't even pretend to support user accounts only channel accounts, channel accounts wouldn't need to be able to like/comment/subscribe either. They wouldn't have to bother with their UI rendering likes/dislikes/comments, they wouldn't need buttons to subscribe, and they wouldn't need a mobile app either. It's a good idea, just be a video backend and only support the embedded video player (as it appears on Mastodon), but it doesn't seem like that was their goal.

    They support everything, they just don't encourage it? A logged in user doesn't use much more server resources than an anonymous user. It's still fetching all the video stats and comments, and of course the video itself which is the biggest thing. Kinda seems like it's just for moderation concerns.

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  • yes Youtube has maybe a billion user accounts with 0 videos, it's the main way to use the platform

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  • they seem to only give accounts to creators

    Yea this is a bit silly. It seems like they manually approve user accounts because they need to be careful with the uploads using up their storage. But a way better solution would be to approve users more liberally, and user accounts would be created without a channel so they cannot upload anything, and creating channels needs to be approved. That way people can freely make user accounts for browsing/following, and the admins can still restrict spam channels from being created and uploading videos.

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  • yea Youtube lets you use the same name, but the extra organization that Peertube gives seems pretty cool too

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  • YouTube is a bit different because you can use your username as your channel name, and then you can have multiple "brands" that aren't linked to your username. People can't find those from your main account.

  • The /r/piracy link to lemmy /c/piracy hit the reddit frontpage with 7K+ updoots!

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  • All of the biggest instances could take turns running ads for themselves lol

  • The /r/piracy link to lemmy /c/piracy hit the reddit frontpage with 7K+ updoots!

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  • I don't think defed has been that bad, and I think over time we'll get more features to avoid having to defed (aside from illegal content or spam).

    Like users being able to block users and/or communities by instance, or admins being able to set default block lists for new users, or users being able to easily share block lists.

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  • what's the best peertube instance to upload gaming videos to? I might upload some and see how it goes

    edit: I think I'm gonna go with spectra, but omg this is annoying:

    Channel identifier cannot be the same as your account name. You can click on the first step to update your account name.

    I get it, they're separate actors, but still annoying. Can people find my channel by either name? Edit2: yes they can, all the user's channels are listed on the user profile, which maybe makes it worth the signup annoyance