This stuff isn’t intentional. It’s just that MS is really bad at handling errors. So they just gave up and put a generic message.

Even lemmy.ml has suffered the occasional server hiccup. Most of the big instances are pretty stable now though

Why does anyone subscribe to [email protected]? It’s run by tankies. Therefore very biased.

This is a way better explanation than I could have possibly done. Thank you.

This is not a good announcement. Why would they do this?

That’d be awesome. I would greatly appreciate that

I don’t need a private community, although that option would be good.

What I really want is the ability to hide a community’s posts from the All and Local pages. (only visible if you go direct or you’re subscribed)

And if you search for the community you’re able to find it.

You probably installed the graphical one. emacs-nox is command-line only and significantly smaller.

emacs

I realize half of you people never touch it, but come on. It’s not that large a package these days.

I think a better request is to get your client to show you just the communities from a particular instance in your feed, rather than actually switching instances to browse.

The queue all being the same is also really bothersome.

I want my communities to show the report until I (or someone from my mod team) deals with it. But when an instance admin marks it resolved, it disappears from my queue.

Selenium automation is a very personal and private thing. :-)

Oh. OK. That makes sense to do it with the SQL. Probably faster that way

You would need to build it into every call for showing local and all posts. Maybe there’s already a feature request for it.

I haven’t explored Lemmy code really at all. But it likely wouldn’t be all that difficult to implement.

Oh. You linked to the client. I think I’d build this into the API itself.

Even then, you could possibly block it from local, but not for all.

The community. Right now, sometimes people post stuff and it gets down voted into oblivion before anyone who actually subscribes can see it. And then even when you go directly to the community, people don’t see that post because it’s down voted so much.

And I mean… The posts in question were so not offensive… Just probably not what the general public wants to read or engage with.

Let me give you a concrete example:

How was your church service today?

That’s it. That was one of the posts that was down voted into oblivion.

Or drug money from selling to a foreign country

But that’s not what happens.

Greatest recent example is Elizabeth Warren. She supposedly wasn’t going to bow down to the big banks and wrote legislation to “help” the consumer. All she did was end up writing legislation that the big banks highly approved of, killed off many of the smaller banks and made banking way less competitive so that the consumers are suffering.

But if you get a coalition (example ICANN) to regulate stuff, you’ll get a better mix of both small and large companies.

And we’ve seen too much industry manipulation in government too.

But the big companies turning their platforms into absolute crap isn’t actually a problem for the industry. Other players will rise up (such as lemmy, kbin, mastodon, and other non activity pub sites) and make good platforms.

Regulation should come from the industry not the legislators. Legislators don’t know enough about it anyway and will end up just getting the biggest players to write it anyway.

But if the industry does it, certification would be voluntary and it would be transparent who wrote the regulation. Much easier for smaller players to contribute and shape it.

And the best part is that if it sucks, they don’t have to participate. And then they can try again