I can see that, I just hate the added friction. I rather the boost button stay as it is and quote be put into the meatball menu. It’s an action that needs confirmation anyway. This is a setting on your account, under ‘Appearance’. I have it off.

After the shutdown of a.gup.pe, the a.gup.pe group for photography lives on as a piefed community! It’s not just Lemmy communities that can move to PieFed… !photography@piefed.social https://piefed.social/c/photography

Hi, redacted So, can you please edit your post redacted Thank you. Btw, @MrKaplan@lemmy.world gave us a complete answer just below : https://lemmy.world/comment/19150784

There are no PieFed instances in that list. Maybe because Meta is blocked in the default PieFed robots.txt or maybe PieFed is too obscure. The robots.txt on Mastodon and Lemmy so minimal it borders on negligent. The Mbin robots.txt is massive but does not block Meta’s crawler so presumably it is not being kept up to date. Any fedi devs reading this: add these User-agent: meta-externalagent User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent User-agent: meta-externalfetcher User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher User-agent: TikTokSpider User-agent: DuckAssistBot User-agent: anthropic-ai Disallow: /

There was a post on one of the science or science memes communities recently with a (badly done) study about how the world can support billions more people if only [long list of impossible things here]. Many of the commenters there were talking about how if we could just organise into far left anarchist militias and violently overthrow all the governments to impose authoritarian rules on everyone like banning cars and animal agriculture, we could really have 10 billion people living in a perfect communist utopia on earth. It was very amusing reading. /s (For the record, I’m not opposing veganism or cars being bad. It was all the defending of bad science and talk of anarchist authoritarian regimes, which was so darkly funny to me.)

!privacy@programming.dev is seeing an uptick in activities following the latest news

Let’s dig in! While I don’t agree with implementing any of those systems, I still upvoted this post for the relevancy it has to Lemmy… Let’s get back to that in a sec. I think all the voting systems above are basically the same. You have incentive (dopamine rewards for upvoted posts and is a helluva motivator; a sense of responsibility with limited votes), a penalty (down votes) for shit posts and possibly a reward for better posts or behavior (not losing $10; “reddit gold”; high karma) [I could go on for hours about this, but I’ll spare you.] All those three systems above do is fiddle with the same knobs and are effective in their own ways. In the case of Slashdot, I would speculate they used a “vote economy” system to encourage quality and a sense of responsibility. Reddit just wants more dopamine and Something Awful just found a way to punish trolls and make money at the same time. Quick past recap: What Reddit voting was rumored to do (and never really did), was elevate good posts and bury bad ones. This works when you have a collection of like-minded folks that share a the same goal of ensuring good quality information. You liking or hating a post shouldn’t have any relationship to how you vote on the post. Mainly because of Facebook, we have a broken association to “liking” and “upvoting”. It is what it is, but it kinda makes a point that people generally vote with emotions, not a sense of responsibility. I believe we need to find the holy grail: identity effective incentives for “proper” voting based on content, eliminate dopamine-based systems (in regards to vote quantities or bullshit gold/silver rewards) while still providing a reward for participation. That’s still “dopamine”, but a reward system may need to be decoupled from the number of votes a post gets. Most of all, there needs to be an aspect of fun as well and additional incentives to return the next day. (If you think the above paragraph sounds contradictory, it’s because it is. You can’t eliminate brain chemistry or emotions as a factor in this topic, even though I clearly wish I could.) The elimination of exploitive financial incentives for creating bots and bulk accounts (with the intent of selling high karma accounts) was mostly eliminated on Lemmy, and it’s awesome. Do I personally believe that a “perfect” voting system can be created online? Nope. However, I would kindly ask for you to brainstorm about what could eliminate voting systems completely.

@Binette@lemmy.ml thank a lot for your help. I’m leaving. You can join @Sravoryk@jlai.lu and draw your avatar on the feditrain

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IMHO for the same reason why Myspace has over hundreds of millions of MAU and Spacehey has got only over million of users overall. IMHO solving UX sins does not bring new users. It rather helps not to deter them. The Great Migration from Reddit did not repeat with the same scale, as with Great Twitter Migrations. Even then, most people IMHO return rather to their already existing accounts on already existing instances. Fedia.io has over 5 thousands total users, less than dozen Lemmy servers. With the lemm.ee going down, we will witness a MAU drop. A non-zero number of people care no more about federation and will not make a switch. There might not be enough stock of users to repeat /kbin’s growth right now. Even recent developments at PieFed make its MAU number only slightly larger than Mbin

That’s the real issue in this case IMO. It might just be they are busy. But really contributors like you that are very very active helping other users and contributors, I really appreciate the effort!

The German (tech) media outlet heise online recently launched a PeerTube instance and the latest channel I subscribed to is: !ct_3003@peertube.heise.de

I think vote should be private by default, public by choice. Because I thought my votes were private to users at first. I’m somewhat satisfied with the current system, it’s a bit linear but still efficient. I like how steam reviews added a [funny], [yes], [no] votes. I imagine an optional vote feature after an upvote. So the user could say why they liked it by using [useful], [funny] or [relatable]. I know it won’t match every posts or comments. Then use those three categories to optionally filter posts/comments (e.g. filter by most useful comments).

Goddamnit, I knew there would have been some discussion about it already but stupid lemmy search just wouldn’t turn up the big thread. PS: Yet another blaze account eh?

I mostly use the Boost App, even with reddit before the purge, so my feedback and comparison will mostly be based on that app. I would like to customize the post and comment layouts. The instance name, the age of the post, and the username of the author are all smooshed into one line. I prefer these 3 things on there own lines, above the post picture or main body if it’s text only, along with the title above the main body or text. Leaving the link below the picture or main body is fine, with the buttons. I like the layout of the buttons on the posts. I like how Interstellar has full height images on default. Piefed on the browser cuts off images, and I have to click on them to see in full. Boost also has an option to preview more text words in the body of a post, a scalable slider from 0 to 100; I have it set at max at 100 so that I can read long text posts without clicking on them, Just keep on scrolling while reading. The max of 100 doesn’t show everything in very wordy posts, but I can see majority of posts in full just okay. What I’m getting at is, I really like this feature and wish more apps had it. The 3-dot contextual button needs more functionality in the Interstellar App (Things in the parentheses are more contextual options when clicked): -Report Post -Block options (community, user, instance, web link) -Mute options (community, user, instance, web link) -Share options (link inside the post, post’s link, cross-post to another instance, share title+link) -Copy options (link inside post, comments, markdown formatted link for lemmy/piefed, title of post, username) In the comments, I prefer highlighting user names vs using icons that take up more space. Interstellar uses a blue “OP” icon to show the author in the comment section, and a green leaf icon for new accounts. Boost highlights the username with a set colour. Also, your own comments are highlighted in a different set colour. Boost doesn’t identify new accounts though, a missing feature I like. Boost also has an option to highlight new comments, in a post that I have visited before, in a lighter grey background colour. I think this requires the device storage to remember your visit to a post, which is fine by me. Sometimes posts do pop up again, and seeing the new comments easily is nice. Boost has options to filter and mute things without an account, using the device to store these instead of an account on a server. The best type of block is the kind that is not detectable by an offending party, either an user on the platform or even an abusive moderator or admin. One beauty of using a third party is to have greater control of this. Mute is the same as block but it’s purposely not associated with an account. I would like more apps, including Interstellar to have these options: Muting options -Muted communities -Muted users -Muted Instances -Muted words -Muted web links (Boost does not have this functionality; for example I do not want to see posts with nytimes.com linked articles) Blocking options (Same as muting but these are saved to your account) -Blocked communities -Blocked users -Blocked Instances -Blocked words -Blocked web links (I don't think lemmy supports this, and not sure if Piefed has it too, but saw something with feeds base on links I think, but I'm still learning) Lastly, I would like to have tagging user options. I have a bad memory and cannot remember who is who, especially online with thousands or hundreds of thousands of users when I was on on reddit. Voyager App has the best version of this, because it allows for picking a colour (red for red flag people, or green for good people, etc.) Sorry for the long post, and no worries if you do not like them, they are my preferences I like or would like to see. Cheers.

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