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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.

Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.

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At some point I have to start wondering if Putin pays these sorts of people.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think a lot of people are going to switch to piefed

The big problem is that it isn't really possible for instances to switch from Lemmy to PieFed, or any other ActivityPub software.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Once a Piefed instance is mature enough, I could consider asking a few communities I mod if they would be okay to migrate to it.

[email protected] for instance doesn't really need to be able to edit past posts, and we already moved from LW to lemm.ee. Moving again to another instance wouldn't be that different.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

That's a highly specific comm though and most instances/comms would not be okay losing the history. You also inevitably stunt growth and lose some users during such a migration. It would be much better if ActivityPub allowed an instance to change its underlying representation, while keeping all the users and post and data but unfortunately this is basically impossible.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You could scrape the current community and update the db that populates the new one with all the old posts maybe? including the original time stamps? Not sure if thats possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

That would only fix the community for your own instance (and your instance would be out of sync with other instances). This is not a viable solution.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

I would move [email protected] and [email protected] too, and I guess the people would still be okay.

We created those communities here from scratch. What matters is the incoming content and discussions, archived threads are good for information but not much more.

We have no content on any community here older than 1 year and a half except the ones on lemmy.ml, are those more popular than the LW, SJW or mander.xyz ones?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah unfortunately it's not quite ready for mainstream yet. I've noticed over the last several days that I've been using it a bunch of small UI things that would really frustrate someone without a high level of tolerance to such. e.g. you get a notification telling you that you have a message, you click it, but there's no message; so you do a control-F to try to find it... nope, still no message; next you have to hunt through the entire page for every "expansion block" and "Continue thread" (which takes you to another page) and those "auto-collapse" (based on comment threshold), and I disabled "auto-hide" but surely that might really be a problem if there's a Notification for something that becomes impossible to see later without changing your configuration settings.

For extremely basic things it's fine... mostly. Just never edit your messages and someone will be fine. I say that b/c you can't edit comments in-line in the page where they are at, and once you are done editing one, it doesn't take you back to it but rather to the OP thread instead. Whereupon again you have to hunt for your comment all over again as mentioned above. Which is especially annoying when you have to do it multiple times, b/c there is no Preview feature to let you know what is coming after you submit it - did you insert a space between your [alttext] (link here)? did you mess up your "quoting" rules? does an image not render?

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(the above on purpose:-)

On the other hand, they can allow YouTube embeds without having to wonder what is on the other side of that sus-looking link and click and leave the page. And personal instance blocks - that actually work - and categories, and like it will tell you, for every comment, both the time something was posted and the time it was last edited, woot!:-) There's just a ton of fantastic features, more so than Lemmy in many ways, and yet at the same time less too - if that makes any sense at all.

But then again, more people know how to code in Python, so I hope it will catch up soon:-). That might even be what we're seeing now - the core UI needs to be not monkeyed around with by a bunch of people all working at cross-purposes, but then all these nice little additions could each be someone's side project? But they need to get the core working too.