• Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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      7 months ago

      You can!

      … if you host your own instance, or use a client that supports instance blocking, of course.

      Instance blocking will be available in Lemmy 0.19, which is already running on some Lemmy instances. The update contains various breaking changes, so not every instance may choose to update immediately (so people using/devs of apps and alternative frontends have time to update), but the work has been done already. The release candidate just needed a bunch of stability testing.

    • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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      7 months ago

      With its current implementation, that feature has a lot of downsides as well.

      If you wanted, you could embed tracking pixels all over Lemmy and apps and browsers will happily report who’s reading your posts.

        • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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          7 months ago

          The trick is that to embed images in Lemmy, you’re basically hot linking them. That means any kind of tracking your average web server can do, is possible through Lemmy’s image embedding feature.

          I’ve explicitly disabled any kind of logging for the proof of concept above (it’s generated in the fly by the server, not cached on my end, no IP logs or anything) but it’s not hard for a malicious user to abuse this. It basically takes your IP address, looks up an estimated town based on some free geoip database you can download, and renders that as text inside an image.

          This could be solved by rewriting comments to force image URLs to be loaded through your home server, but I don’t know if anyone has started work on that yet.

          • Zonen-RANSLITE@feddit.de
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            7 months ago

            It basically takes your IP address, looks up an estimated town based on some free geoip database you can download, and renders that as text inside an image.

            OK, less magic than expected.

      • morrowind@lemmy.ml
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        7 months ago

        You used to be able to embed arbitrary html in comments, which was awesome and terrifying

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
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      7 months ago

      In all seriousness, apps and frontends need to implement countermeasures so that you can turn off image previews as needed

  • livus@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    • Federation

    • Decentralized control

    • Viewable moderation logs

    • Absence of CCP army, Hasbara trolls, Russian trolls, corporate shills, etc

    • Editable titles

    • Hashtags

    • Third party apps (on Lemmys)

    • Publicly shareable/subscribeable multi-communities (on Kbin)

    • Automatically remove inactive mods (Kbin)

  • cameron_vale@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    A population of open-minded, free-thinking, laid-back people who like to explore strange new ideas.

    Ha ha, no.

  • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    It’s pretty obvious people aren’t talking about apis that must be paid for that are ridiculously restrictively expensive

    • SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      7 months ago

      And the ability to turn off scores entirely! I run it that way most of the time. A post can have thousands of up/down votes but I can’t tell and it keeps it from infuencing how I’ll vote.

      It was a feature I wanted to experiment with on reddit but couldn’t

    • ZeroCool@feddit.chEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I still remember when reddit disabled that. It was a useful data point, especially in hobby communities or other places where it can be difficult for newbies to judge the quality of advice/answers they’re receiving so I was thrilled to see it here on Lemmy. Going by upvotes alone is not always showing you an accurate picture of a community’s reaction to a comment.

      • SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip
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        7 months ago

        It’s why I’m still furious about YouTube removing the dislike count. That single decision has probably led to lots more people getting scammed–and YouTube not getting my premium dollars I would’ve otherwise gave.

  • paradiso@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    The community is more mature, less stupid pun chains (pretty sure those are mostly bots at this point), and less presence of interest groups (nefarious or not).

    • Scrollone@feddit.it
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      7 months ago

      Summer is never endless, I wonder when those things will arrive in the Fediverse and ruin everything

  • ZeroCool@feddit.chEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Third party clients. Specifically alternate web UI’s like Alexandrite because if I’m being honest here, I think the comment nesting in Lemmy’s offical web UI lacks distinction which makes following conversations frustrating. Without Alexandrite I’d most likely be a mobile app (Voyager) user only.

  • PumpkinDrama@reddthat.comOP
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    7 months ago

    I really like being able to edit the post title and the 6 hour top sort. Although I would like 3 or 4 hours even better.

    • Vilian@lemmy.ca
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      7 months ago

      you can ask for this feature directly to the dev, that what i prefer it to reddit