Mama told me not to come.
She said, that ain’t the way to have fun.
Here’s what I do:
I really haven’t had any issues on the two I mod, but they’re pretty small communities. And honestly, at Lemmy’s scale, if you’re feeling the need to use tools, you’re probably moderating too strictly, or you’re moderating a massive community.
A list of communities isn’t “a lot more content.” Just run it once daily and the problem is solved. Instances don’t need to store posts, just community names available on that instance.
If the issue is finding new instances, I think it’s fine for it to take some time the first time someone tries to find a community on that instance. But after that, it should immediately have a list of communities from that instance.
Well, 0.0.35 is a thing now, and I’m 99% sure it’s fixed there, but there are other issues that will only be resolved when your instance upgrades to 0.18 (coming very soon, looks like there are just a couple hiccups in the release process).
Maybe I’ll work on this. I’m trying to get more involved in lemmy-adjacent dev work, so this might be a fun project.
heavily reliant on the mods
As any solution to this sort of problem should be, IMO.
If the mods suck, then go make another community. If enough of the mods are good, they can be a huge part of the solution. I’m envisioning this:
Transparency keeps the mods honest, or at least allows users in the community to name and shame bad mods.
Some automated tools to help mods out are always welcome.
Yup. It’s completely borked.
GitHub issue here: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/issues/356
Basically an embedded browser instead of opening in a new app window.
Basically, it’s an embedded browser. Maybe we should rename it to be more easily understood.
Yup. I don’t block anything, I just stick to my subscriptions, and there’s plenty of content and discussion.
There are some bugs, but hopefully by the time you notice them, your instance will upgrade.
GitHub or IzzyDroid have the latest, FDroid probably will soon. Google Play takes a while.
Dang. It’s correct on the latest, and had been for a few days at least. So 0.0.35 should fix it.
And then you respond by limiting access by IP. That degrades the experience a bit for large networks like universities, but if it’s limited to logins and signups, it can be acceptable.
And then they respond with bot nets, and then you know you’ve hit the mainstream.
I disagree. I think the solution is moderation. Basically, have a set of tools that identify likely bots, and let human moderators make the call.
If you require admins to manually approve accounts, admins will either automate approvals or stop approving. That’s just how people tend to operate imo. And the more steps you put between people wanting to sign up and actually getting an account, the fewer people you’ll get to actually go through with it.
So I’m against applications. What we need is better moderation tools. My ideal would be a web of trust. Basically, you get more privileges the more trusted people that trust you. I think that should start from the admins, then to the mods, and then to regular users.
But lemmy isn’t that sophisticated. Maybe it will be some day, IDK, but it’s the direction I’d like to see things go.
Agreed. Name and shame.
Exactly. I like seeing the same people around every so often, and I liked knowing when I updated the same person a lot (means I should probably trust what they say more).
However, I don’t want to follow any of those people specifically. So if we had anything close to that, it should be limited to the RES feature that tracks upvotes by user.
0.0.34 is still in the Google Play verification stage, 0.0.35-alpha is available on GitHub now to support the lemmy version that’s coming out tomorrow.
Google Play is slow, consider using FDroid for now until things settle down.
And I think 0.0.34, but I could be mistaken.
I’ve considered it, yeah. There aren’t many posts, and I’ve been thinking of posting a bunch there to get it more popular.
Or maybe I’ll make a new, related community with a little broader appeal, idk. I find avoiding lemmy.ml is usually more enjoyable.