Ah damn. I just came across the first time I wanted to actually use this. It requires opt-in from both ends‽ No wonder people aren’t upset, the damn thing is nearly useless.

I know some Mastodon users were really unhappy at the existence of this back when it was first announced. But as far as I’m concerned it’s entirely a good thing. Even less centralisation, and it’s not like any content shared on Mastodon could be taken to be private at all anyway.

I dunno about Mastodon, but Pixelfed says they’re working on a “groups” feature which should be compatible with Lemmy communities. It’ll be interesting to see how they solve this issue—if they do address it at all.

Interesting. This is certainly not the first time there have been markdown parsing inconsistencies between clients on Lemmy, the most obvious example being _subscript and ^superscript, especially when ~multiple words~ ^get used^ or you use ^reddit ^style ^(superscript text).

But yeah, checking just now on Jerboa you’re right, it does display correctly the way you did it. I first saw it on the web in lemmy-ui, which doesn’t display it properly, unless you use the triple backticks.

Wtf kind of Randian hellscape nonsense is this? They should be allowed to charge double to exploit people who are already disadvantaged by the way other companies are treating them? Fuck this nonsense.

Go create your own bear-infested village somewhere nobody with any morals has to live near you. But this time do it from scratch rather than ruining things for the people already living there.

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And let some alpha proof of concept software that relies only on cameras

That “alpha proof of concept software” is marketed as “full self-driving”. If it doesn’t mean what it says it means, the company producing it should be fully liable for any crashes caused as a result of its use.

Full Self-Driving. Not “kinda sometimes in perfect conditions”. Full.

Are you experiencing federation problems? Whatever criticism teppichbrand may deserve for their bad opinions, this is far from their first post. The first page of 20 comments takes them back 2 weeks, making them a fairly moderate user of Lemmy.

Every other user on the road is forced to engage with it, including vulnerable users like cyclists and pedestrians. They didn’t agree to it. They weren’t asked if they’re okay with it.

And Tesla in particular, more than other self-driving ventures, has been incredibly reckless in what features they roll out and how easy they make it for their drivers to be unsafe while using it.

Federation health monitor? Checks if posts are federating well

omg yes please. I dunno what’s going on with lemmy.world but it’s clearly not healthy right now and it’d be handy to have something to point to.

intercepts links to posts/comments and provides links to the local versions

90% of the time yes, please. But an easy way to override it is also very worth having, especially in cases where federation is having problems.

I love the idea of the app, but I think some greater coordination with the BDS movement would help. Instead of a simple “yes/no”, tell the user of the app which category the product/company is listed in by BDS and let them make up their own mind.

For example, currently products in the “pressure targets” are displayed exactly the same as “consumer boycott target”. As BDS says, boycotts are most effective when they’re more highly targetted. So there’s no problem with boycotting the pressure targets, but there is if someone uses the fact that they’re boycotting a pressure target as an excuse to feel good and not boycott a boycott target. Being clearer could only help.

Relevant BDS page.

I don’t think your description of the problem is quite right, but I do believe that there is a problem. Here’s what I see on lemmy-ui:

It shows no thumbnail, but the standard “play” icon, centred.

That’s different from any other kind of post. Text posts:

Have no thumbnail, and a “text bubble” icon, centred.

Link posts:

Sometimes do, sometimes don’t have a thumbnail. If no thumbnail, they have an “external link” icon, centred. If there is a thumbnail, that same external link icon appears in the upper-right corner.

And finally, image posts:

Have a thumbnail of the image with an “image” icon in the top right.

In the case of image and video posts, clicking on the thumbnail/icon creates an “expando” where you can see the image/watch the video inline.

This is good UX, in my opinion. However, unfortunately, your instance is failing to load the video for me. It’s not caused by the expando, because this happens even if I go straight to the video itself in a new tab. So it’s probably a problem with the instance, not with Lemmy.

But as I said at the start, there is a problem here.

First and foremost, a complete lack of any thumbnail for the videos. Thumbnails are good! Videos should also get them.

And well-known popular video sites should also be supported by the video expando. From a UX perspective, it would be better to be able to watch YouTube directly inline, rather than being forced to go through to youtube.com.

Also as a second related UX issue, text posts can be viewed from the feed page, but unlike videos and images, it’s not done by clicking the thumbnail, but by clicking the little “+” sign next to the title. In my opinion this is inconsistent and not ideal.

I uploaded what I think was the first tutorial on how to use Photoshop’s then-new “Content-Aware Fill” to help create panoramas, and also a tutorial about…something, I forget what, to do with the music engraving software Sibelius. They were things I was doing all the time, but there didn’t seem to be any guide on how to do it, so I thought I’d help out. And I got rewarded with a little cash and a few tens of thousands of views. Felt good.

There are much better, higher-polish videos that deal with those subjects now, I’m sure. But still, it didn’t feel good getting that ripped out from under me, and being told I was no longer welcome.

Ah I see. Thanks for the clarification! That’s much less of a problem then. (Though still not ideal, since an instance admin might approve something for not violating instance rules, while it does violate specific community rules.)

Damn that’s very disappointing. It makes sense in some cases—if the local instance admin removes it, no reason for the community mod to ever see it. But if, say, a beehaw admin removes it after a bee reports it, a lemmy.world should still get to see the content in their queue to decide if they want to remove it, too.

Monospaced fonts outside of my IDE? Ugly, awkward to read, and just weird.

You know what, I actually agree with YouTube’s argument. Ad blocking is piracy. In fact, no, it’s worse than piracy. If I pirate a movie, Disney makes no money, but it costs them nothing at all. If I watch YouTube without an ad blocker, I’m depriving YouTube of its revenue source and I’m costing them money. Morally, ad blocking sits somewhere between piracy and actual theft.

The thing is? I don’t care. I ad block YouTube all the time and feel not a lick of guilt. The reason: Google brought this on themselves. I used to happily pay for YouTube Red. But they have continuously, both before and after that point, been actively hostile to the people actually producing the content they make. Their willingness to bow down to copyright trolls and complete inability to properly apply fair use. They extremely harsh policies on acceptable content, stopping people talking about sex education or mediaeval weaponry being able to reliably makes money.

And the straw that broke this camel’s back was when they changed the requirements to be in the Partner Program, locking out all the smaller creators from ever being able to make money on YouTube. I never considered myself a “creator”, but over the 5 years prior to that I occasionally uploaded stuff I was doing anyway. I had amassed almost $100 over those 5 years. Not an impressive amount, for sure, but having that taken away from me made me feel unwelcome. I don’t think I’ve uploaded anything public since, and I’ve been blocking ads on the site since then.

Even worse, not long after this change, they decided to start showing ads even on videos from non-partnered videos, so you can get ads on my videos even though I don’t see a single cent.

So fuck YouTube. Ad blocking is worse than piracy, and I say good.

So if one of these groups has already actioned it, the post will still appear in the queue for the other groups to take a look at? I vaguely recall hearing about an issue where admins approving a comment would mean mods won’t get to see it, or vice versa. Is that me misreading/misremembering something, or has it since been fixed?

I’m guessing “target instance” here means both the host instance of the community and the instance of the user doing the reporting, which may be the same or may be two different instances?

omg I love your instance name. (But I hate that font :O)

But actually I think I did see that post, and the responses in it were probably part of what was bouncing around my brain that led me to ask this post. Because my main curiosity was less around who reports go to (I asked that to make sure I hadn’t missed something, more than for any other reason), but around what happens when reports are actioned by one of those groups, but not others.