Yeah, no offense to the admins who I’m sure are just trying to do their users right, but stuff like this is making me see the value of running my own instance, or at perhaps finding a more hands-off one. It’s weird to me that instance admins (or popular votes) make the decisions about what content I get to have access to.
I guess browser extension would be well suited to add account-switching/aggregating. Likewise mobile apps.
This seems like exactly the sort of rule that should be applied at the community level. Instance level rules should be kept as minimal as possible.
If I were implementing this nefarious Reddit I probably wouldn’t have edits wipe out the original data. It’s certainly not necessary to implement edits that way.
As for 1. I’m told they’re getting rid of websockets in the next release, which should mean this annoying behavior goes away as well.
I’d imagine your best bet is reading through the w3c spec if you want protocol details. I think reading it directly is probably approachable enough for a CS student and should be a good exercise.
Yeah I find it a bit annoying, maybe a browser extension which adds a link to “view in home instance” is the way to go in the meantime. Seems like it would be really easy to do. 🤔
Thanks. I’m not sure that’s exactly what I’m imagining, because this still involves hard-coding an instance to the link. People from many different instances might be viewing the link, so I’d imagine a flow like: when you mouse-hover a link to a community, a little popup appears which provides a custom link based on your home instance. So whether !fediverse@lemmy.ml is a link to the lemmy.ml or lemmy.ca domain wouldn’t matter, ideally you’d always get the option of viewing the community from your home instance at a single click. Hope that makes sense, today is my first day after all.
My big question is why can’t we have auto-generated links to the appropriate lemmy.ca page for communities on remote instances. It seems odd that following links to communities takes you to the host instance when you generally speaking you won’t be logged in there. Hopefully this feature will come in the future (or maybe it already exists but I haven’t found it)
Vancouver Island here. Happy to see a woodworking community getting going here already, and hoping to see a bigger rock climbing community on lemmy in the future. Thanks for hosting!
I believe the idea is that there will be one main established hockey community, and you wouldn’t need to create another on another instance (unless you’re unhappy with the “main” one). So if lemmy.ca hosts the hockey community, users from other instances would just use it directly. For example the main lemmy woodworking and hockey communities both appear to be hosted right here on lemmy.ca.
I do not think it’s fair to assume that everyone came to lemmy for the same reasons as you. I for one came because I didn’t like the decisions they were making, not because I had any strong feelings about the ethics of those decisions.