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Nutomic

@ nutomic @lemmy.ml

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Lemmy Lead Developer and father of two children.

I also develop Ibis, a federated wiki.

  • Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures

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  • The problem of cross-community posting

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  • This is not possible with the way Lemmy is implemented, because each post belongs to exactly one community. This is not something we can realistically change. We are considering to show comments from different posts with the same url together, but that is controversial.

    In any case NodeBB, Lemmy and Piefed are different platforms with different implementations and different users. So it makes sense that some features are implemented differently, or only available in a subset of platforms.

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  • Could the UI and App devs please make it more clear that URL and image options when making a post are mutually exclusive?

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  • The best channel is through the issue tracker, for example github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui. In practice Im not sure how the UI could be changed to make this clearer. Do you have an idea, or an example how another website handles this?

  • Discussion: Long-term need for automation tools for moderation

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  • With 4500 posts per minute you will probably get a lot of other scaling issues too, like with your database or the processing of incoming and outgoing activities. In any case its a good way to learn how Activitypub works. Is the code open source? Dont see it on your codeberg.

    Using the plugin system you basically just need a way to get notified about each new post and comment, right? I expect that will be one of the major use cases for plugins. We will likely provide various official plugins, eg push notifications for Android and iOS. The same thing should also work for you.Version 1.0 will let you subscribe to communities to get notifications for all new posts and comments (code).

  • Discussion: Long-term need for automation tools for moderation

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  • To get new posts and comments for all known communities you only need to make regular requests to /api/v3/post/list?limit=50&sort=New&type_=All and /api/v3/comment/list?limit=50&sort=New&type_=All. Its not necessary to make separate requests for each community. The default rate limit allows 180 read requests per minute so you can comfortably poll this every second (in practice every 30s or so should be enough). If you miss an item (ie post or comment id was skipped) just load the following page.

    The plugin system in 1.0 would be another option. It will still take some time until that is released, but there shouldnt be any reliability issues.

    Youre right that federation solves these problems, but instead you get another problem of writing all this federation code and making sure it is compatible with different platforms. Lemmy's federation code has around 12k lines so that is a lot. It seems much simpler to use the API for Lemmy, Piefed etc and write abstractions for common functionality.

    Anyway this is my opinion. Its your project so in the end its your decision how to implement it.

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  • Donations are to pay for the development of Lemmy which is a full-time job and pays for our bills. Donating to Lemmy does not mean "supporting transphobes and tankies", thats a really weird thing to say.

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  • Interesting, why do you think that scriptable moderation bots need a completely new platform? Wouldnt it be much easier to utilize the Lemmy api directly?

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  • Most of these features are also implemented in Lemmy, and others too such as private communities (which can only be browser by users that were manually approved by moderators). However we have very high standards for correctness, performance and UX so it takes a while to get all of this released in the upcoming 1.0 version.

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  • Suggestion: Apply for a grant from FUTO

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  • I had a video chat with them once, but afterwards they ignored me. So they are clearly not interested in giving us a grant.

  • [Suggestion] Show number of comments on crossposts without having to open each one.

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  • Showing crossposts below comments doesnt work if you have a thread with 100+ comments as it keeps auto-loading more comments. Hiding the crosspost details themselves seems unnecessary as we render them rather small. A button to expand these small details into the full post view with comments also makes sense to me.

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  • Read posts already show with a different color. So this could be a problem with your browser, or the specific Lemmy theme you are using.

  • [Suggestion] Show number of comments on crossposts without having to open each one.

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  • Looks similar to the new UI in the PR linked above, except you have to expand it manually.

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  • Just noticed that this post is already two weeks old. Im aware of the other discussion, there are a lot of ideas and we still need to decide what is the best way to implement it.

    Could you post a link or screenshot to see how Photon displays crossposts?

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  • [Question] resilience to downtime

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  • Outgoing federation actions are kept for 7 days. So if your instance is down shorter than that it will catch up with everything.

  • Is there a way to view posts from a specific date range?

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  • This is not possible unless you are an instance admin and query the database directly with sql.