Once its mature, I personally wouldn’t be opposed to moving issue tracking off github and into a federated one like forgejo.

Sure, and be sure to link that closed github issue.

This is helpful. Could you make a github issue and copy-paste this there? Thx.

I think slur filters, tracking param removals, and local link rewriting are acceptable, because (with the exception of the slur filter) they’re non-moderation actions, and also applied uniformly regardless of who made them.

It also ignores that savvy-enough admins can edit user content with SQL queries.

That’s unavoidable of course, anyone with DB access ultimately can edit things. But if people catch on, I doubt your server would gain many users or last that long. Most importantly, we shouldn’t allow that to happen via the API.

You’re free to start a “Should mods be able to edit user’s data?” discussion, but I doubt it would get much support, especially from reddit allowing this and it souring everyone to it.

Thx! Hard to pick a fav, but meercats are pretty cool.

Thx! Really appreciate it, and I’m glad someone thinks its worthwhile work we’re doing.

You can just use magnet links. I wrote a guide for how to use them here

Like here’s a Joan Crawford movie I like: Sudden Fear 1952 . A super-beginner way, is to install stremio and click that link. Boom, you’re now watching the movie.

We have an issue discussing non-local community discovery here.

My vote there is to extend our lemmy-stats-crawler to crawl communities also, host that file somewhere, and build in a scheduled job to refetch and populate missing communities periodically. Its centralized, but if that file is unavailable, it wouldn’t break anything.

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Who controls this universal community name system?

Editing posts - the main issue is misleading titles

Moving posts to different communities

You can read over the discussion here, but we will never allow mods or admins to act as / impersonate users, or edit their content.

We also can’t rewrite history in the fediverse (unlike a forum) so “moving” a post would also entail deleting and recreating content other people made.

Splitting comments into separate posts

Merging posts

These ones sound really strange, but its similar, I don’t want mods to be able to rewrite user history or move it.

IP check

We don’t store IPs so that’d be impossible.

The post list query is by far the worst offender. It needs to filter, sort, cursor paginate, and join to many tables, and indexes are hard to follow and keep up with.

What’s more is that the problems only surface with lots of historical data, meaning we can only really test the query plans with a fully populated DB.

All this requires running lemmy locally, and inspecting the postgres query durations. We really need proper test suites (lemmy DB perf is one example) that can stress-test production data also.

Here is one historical issue:

• https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2877

I’d very much appreciate any help.

I still don’t follow you. In the very first link, we direct people a page that lets them explore or join a server. You don’t need to know anything about federation to use lemmy.

Lemmy already uses recommendation algorithms for most of its sorts.

As far as a “personalized” one that isn’t the communities you explicitly subscribed to, I don’t think its really necessary, but it wouldn’t be impossible to add (someone could probably come up with some good adjacent-community queries based on the most partipipated communities of users who you’ve liked comments and posts of. Make an issue for this on the lemmy github if you would like.

It’ll likely continue to happen organically: niche communities on reddit will keep getting fed up with the changes, and migrate to lemmy.

I don’t know if we’ll ever reach a tipping point, because redditors have shown that there’s almost nothing they won’t tolerate, but its also likely they still don’t know that alternatives exist. There’s a general conspiracy of silence about most fediverse software. Even with all this recent reddit drama, not a single article bothered to mention lemmy or other alternatives. The info is out there, but interested people have to go out of their way to find it.

We’ve also added a scaled sort to boost posts from smaller / less active communities, so that should help some with discovery. It’d also be nice for instances to use the sidebar, pinned posts, or site taglines to highlight smaller communities to help them grow.

What is your opinion on Bluesky being more popular than Mastodone because it is easier for most?

It shows only that like most open source tools, US media institutes a general conspiracy of silence about platforms like the fediverse, and mastodon (or lemmy). Not because they’re not user-friendly enough, but because ultimately it’s not something the US can control. Bluesky is really just a rebranded twitter, founded by the same people, but with owners more friendly to the US democratic party, as opposed to musk who is more friendly to republicans. Both are US corporations subject to its laws and beholden to push pro-US foreign policy lines.

I hope most of the world will choose to escape all these monopolistic US-controlled platforms, and for countries to fund open source, and encourage their own citizens to use community-run alternatives.

Lemmy won’t become bluesky, because we’re a community/topic-focused link aggregator, not a person-focused microblogging platform.

more structured mod queue, allowing to filter by community

The upcoming combined modlog has this, as well as other more detailed filters.

You can read through these issues related to modmail, but the short version is that it’s way out of scope for us, and not something we have time to do. Replicating private group chats is better done by other services like matrix, or using a shared email inbox.

I’m sure we’re nowhere near that level yet. We haven’t come close to postgres’s limits, and most of our bottlenecks are unoptimized queries.

We’ve asked for help various times, but don’t usually get much help. Despite the seemingly large number of “experts” out there, only a tiny number of them contribute to open source. I’d still consider it mostly a wasteland, with a few people doing the work that should be done by 100x their number.

Yes I’m very excited about the growth of other fediverse software, and a lot of the cool new features they’re adding. Its a great eco-system where we can experiment, be creative, and learn from each other.