I feel like transparent and open algorithms should be the way to go. For example, in the Lemmy documentation, I can find the exact math that is used to rank posts in Scaled sorting.

Perhaps an even better aporoach may lie in letting the users customize the factors determining ranking and how much they affect it.

That sounds like Xitter. Fortunately, Reddit hasn’t devolved that far… yet.

Too late. For better or for worse, it’s already a meme.

Awesome! Especially love the effort they take to explain federation. We could learn from that…

Where is the screenshot from?

… if it’s ever implemented i’m going to bug db0 to death about making a piefed instance on dbzer0 :D

call it “divisions by 1” ;P

I know, but it’s the principle of the thing.
shakes fist at sky

imo we should focus on a statistic on the entire Threadiverse instead of only Lemmy. After all, these software are highly intercompatible, so excluding them doesn’t make sense.

I wish the next four years fly by like the last five.

FediLab also supports PeerTube. No idea why they don’t advertise it, though.

PieFed does that.

!onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone is also nice this time of year, but you’ll have to post before you can leave.

Keep in mind that subscribing to this community means that it’ll take over your feed.

/j, but it’s also true

All fetches content from every* instance that your instance knows about. In my opinion, making it different per instance is a horrible idea, because it would mean that some content may or may not be visible from a particular instance, and I’d have to keep checking different instances. Not to mention this would be confusing for people new to Lemmy (e.g. “why does this instance’s All look different from that one’s? I thought instances didn’t matter?”)

*except defederated instances, of course.

edit: So, thanks to this comment, I understood what you’re requesting, and it does seem like an interesting idea. However, rather than a seperate feed, this should just be a sort option.

Sometimes I think it would be best if we could have some kind of read-only instance people can create an account on and get stuck in first, then choose an instance to sign up to once they understand it. The instance would be locked down so they couldn’t create any communities.

I believe lemmy.myserv.one is what you’re looking for.

First thing you’ll learn here: out of the 50K monthly active users, this guy makes up 1K of them.

It’s basically the same as Reddit karma, it’s just the sum of upvotes+downvotes you got

There’s one difference: boosts give you +2 reputation points.

Mastodon, via jorts.horse. I use it mainly to shitpost, and occasionally catch up on news.

PeerTube, via spectra.video. It was part of an effort to switch away from YouTube, but due to the abysymal discoverability, I am forced to concur that it hasn’t been doing well as a replacement. I now just use Grayjay to see videos, regardless of platforms.

For now, I use Lemmy via lemmy.cafe. However, when PieFed gets a stable app, I plan to switch over to it, probably via feddit.online.

Maybe I’ll try out Loops when it gains federation support.

Aside from the fact that this is not the correct community for such a question, I’d recommend checking out Privacy Guides to get started on your privacy journey. Check out their recommendation for e-mail providers.

Keep in mind that Proton has recently made some dubious political statements and decisions, and I wouldn’t endorse a product by such a company. The product is still good, but the trustworthiness of the parent company has recently been debatable.

• Do you want microblogging alongside regular forums?
  • YES: Choose mbin.
  • NO:
    • Do you want a native app?
      • YES: Choose Lemmy… for now.
      • NO: Choose PieFed.

I’ve been very interested in PieFed and kept a close watch on it; the only reason I’m on Lemmy is the lack of a stable API on PieFed (which means no apps). Here are some of the reasons I believe PieFed is superior than Lemmy:

• More lightweight to host; imo makes it “more decentralized” since the requirements to self-host are less and thus available to more people.
• New and innovative features
• Responsive developer
• PieFed is opinionated to foster a positive environment. The platform itself is designed in some places to be unattractive to tankies, nazis, trolls, transphobics, etc.
• I don’t believe in seperation of the art from the artist. The artist somehow always profits from the art, be it donations, paywalls, etc. The developers of Lemmy are tankies, and one of them is a transphobe.

Good feature, I don’t see any problems.

1. Quotes are controversial because Twitter people used it to foster toxicity. However, on Mastodon, we have actually active mods. Ideally, you should be self-hosting your own instance anyways and be your own mod.

2. Also, it seems very well implemented, much better than on Twitter: Mastodon says it will allow users to control whether their posts can be quoted. Also, users will be notified if someone quotes them, and they’ll be able to withdraw their post from the quoted context at any time.

3. Most importantly, Mastodon has an active developer who responds to feedback, and PULL REQUESTS, ISSUE TRACKERS, AND GITHUB DISCUSSIONS exist!

4. If you still completely disagree with this decision, fork the project, create a patch, and start your own server with the patched Mastodon!