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Great to hear! I've updated the post title and linked to this comment

regarding the join button, I actually just saw a user have that same misunderstanding: https://old.reddit.com/r/Silksong/comments/1qltxzy/announcing_our_official_sister_community/o1hlnk3/

I just took another look at the site, and I love the new changes already!

Very good idea, also opened an issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/issues/526

I see the developer also found the issue, great to hear that you both might be collaborating.

The images are just to avoid having too much text, a bit similar to the Peertube site. I already mentioned it in another comment, if you know any better images to put there I would be happy to replace them. The icons on your site are very small, so it would still show a lot of text.

That's a good point. I like the images you have currently, and I'll keep an eye out for anything that might be better.

True these havent been updated in a long time. Any specific features that you would emphasize?

A few of them have nice big cards now, so those could be combined. Otherwise the features that I personally would have been interested in are (in no particular order):

Emojis with autocomplete support. Start typing :
User tagging using @, Community tagging using !: You could also emphasize that this works across instances. For example: "Tagging users and communities from any federated instance"
Integrated image uploading in both posts and comments.
i18n / internationalization support for > 30 languages
RSS / Atom feeds for All, Subscribed, Inbox, User, and Community.
By hosting your own server, you can be in full control of your content.

Instances can have multiple topics, in fact you can make a PR to this file to update it yourself.

Thanks, I made a note for our team to look into that in the future!

I like Pixelfed’s join page since I can quickly narrow down an instance based on what’s important to me: https://pixelfed.org/servers

That's a good point, I'm also not sure if there is a good way for instance admins to change that on Pixelfed's site. I don't have a strong preference either way, but having some way for admins to update the information would be ideal. Perhaps an automated system with custom overrides through a file on the GitHub?

Some more feedback on the current version of the site:

It might be good to indicate that the instance in the first card is a random instance, and not an official or 'flagship' instance. That way, if it links to a poorly moderated / maintained instance, it doesn't reflect poorly on the project. My personal preference would be to have the Browse All Servers be the primary button, and then the join button be secondary. A refresh button might also work: "Refresh for a new randomly selected server"
Very minor, but some of the images are light mode while others are dark mode. It might look better if it was consistent

If anyone else is curious, here is what I found on the link

https://docs.hollo.social/intro/

Hollo is a simple, single-user microblogging tool that lets you run your own little corner of the internet. Think of it as your personal Mastodon instance, but stripped down to the essentials.

I see the original post got removed by moderators to prevent panic. Would you have an update that you can share in this thread? I'm happy to edit the title of this post too :)

I think you may have accidentally flagged this as NSFW

or is that a joke about agentic coding being unsafe for code

Voyager works, although I don't think it's intended for Desktop use

Assuming you're looking for Lemmy/Piefed clients, you might be able to install some of the front ends as PWAs. Photon and Blorp for example

@alam@lemmy.world is also on the threadiverse, and may post updates about this as it develops

Predictions

Showerthoughts

I had no idea Reddit invented having deep thoughts in the shower, or making predictions

🙄

Am I the Asshole?

Yea they can keep that one

Use the free trials with both and see what you prefer!

For podcasts, if you're on android, check out AntennaPod

edit: Adding some more information

The podcast format was designed to be decentralized and open. Most creators still do direct distribution, so you can follow your favourite podcasts without needing a centralized entity like Spotify to collect it for you
The exception is the platform exclusive paywalled stuff that Spotify produces themselves. Joe Rogan is one of those iirc, but I don't think that affects the majority of people here
If you listen on multiple devices and want to synchronize your listening history, see here: https://antennapod.org/documentation/general/synchronization

I appreciate that you are gathering community feedback!

Right now it feels like the website is geared towards the style and content that technical users appreciate. I agree with the other comments that it would be nice to simplify the website down. Technical users are willing to explore for more information while the average user taking a quick look will likely leave.

Taking inspiration from other Fediverse platforms, my favourite landing pages are from Peertube and Mastodon:

How about the instance selection wizard (click “join a server” on the homepage), which lets you select topics and languages to select instances. Do the current options make sense?

This is likely a biased opinion, but could you add 'region' as a field, or 'regional' as a topic? For our instance, I think that's how a lot of people are choosing to make an account with us given recent events. It also helps the user find an instance that is nearby (for lower latency), and within a jurisdiction that they are familiar with / can have an influence over through voting or other means. pangora.social seems to be down right now, but I recall them having a nice way of organizing that

Another biased opinion, I agree that it's better to have large instances near the top since they're more likely to be up / fixed quickly / on top of moderation. You could include a note saying that larger instances are near the top because of XYZ, and that people can always make more accounts down the road if you change your mind. That way there's less pressure to pick the "correct" instance.

And the list of apps, what can be done here? For one thing the data is rarely updated, so we would appreciate pull requests.

Could you potentially collaborate with https://lemmyapps.com/ ? It would be easier for users to submit updates to one place (whether it is a PR to you or an update on that site)

If I were to try and critique the site in excessive detail, from top to bottom:

Could you make the logo have a rectangular / circle background around it? Right now edges look odd over the dark background. The hover effect looks nicer, maybe with different colors
In the header: News, Docs, & Contact can be collapsed into a dropdown under 'About' or something similar, since those are pages that someone would go searching for
Instead of 'Join a server', 'Donate' and 'See all servers', it might be better to have one massive "Join a Server" button/card on the front page that leads to the instance list page.
- Join a serve and See all servers are very similar for a user that's not familiar with how this all works, and they end up in the same place. So instead of a popup, could you have it as a responsive widget on the instance's page? That way users can quickly figure out how the instances are tagged
- Since the donate button is already in the header, it might be better to have a large section on donations further down the page.
The paragraph is a large block of text. I'd prefer something closer to what Peertube did
The screenshots could be larger and more prominent
The images give off 'AI generated' vibes, even if that wasn't their origin. Could you have large cards with simple icons, similar to the 3 header cards on our site: https://fedecan.ca/en/
I like the 'Create your own discussion platform' card's format. It's a bit hard to read, but otherwise nice
The 'more features' section could be simplified down to the important points, and maybe even combined with what is being done with the screenshots area

On the servers page:

The community explorer and fediverse observer are external sites, but they look like widgets right now.
Is every instance under one topic, or would it be possible to let the user select multiple and have instances appear and disappear from the list live?
I like Pixelfed's join page since I can quickly narrow down an instance based on what's important to me: https://pixelfed.org/servers

Well yeah, what I said was

It's useful in some contexts while being hot garbage in others. Learning to use it for what it's good at is fine, trying to shoehorn it into everything is stupid.
Same as relying on it for everything. That's not adapting, that's being easily replaceable.

Use it for the few things it's good at, and ignore their false promises on the rest.

This post was about tech companies trying to shove LLM based "AI" into everything. I'm looking forward to when investors move on from this one specific type of algorithm and we can get back to innovating properly.

Well duh

How does that add anything to the points above

Seems like the key word in the post was "mass implementation"

It's useful in some contexts while being hot garbage in others. Learning to use it for what it's good at is fine, trying to shoehorn it into everything is stupid.

Same as relying on it for everything. That's not adapting, that's being easily replaceable

So they could have held paint drying Mondays instead, with the same overall effect

"Every single Monday was called Paint Dry Monday" Vaughan said, with his mandate for staff that they could only watch paint dry. "You couldn't have customer calls; you couldn't work on budgets; you had to only watch paint dry." He said this happened across the board, not just for tech workers, but also for sales, marketing, and everybody else at IgniteTech. "That culture needed to be built. That was the key."

I always saw the rules against Wikipedia to be around citations (and accuracy in the early years), rather than it harming learning. It's not that different from other tertiary sources like textbooks or encyclopedias. It's good for learning a topic and the interacting pieces, but you need to then search for primary/secondary sources relevant to the topic you are writing about.

Generative AI however

is a text prediction engine that often generates made up info, and then students learn things wrong
does the writing for the students, so they don't actually have to read or understand anything

Oh is that what it was 😄

There's an account that I haven't used in years, which gets a "Are you trying to log in?" email every few months.

I got 6 emails at once the other day, figured it was the same junk