Upvotes/downvotes are unfortunately a fundamentally flawed concept. They originally served as an superior alternative to forums’ previous sorting method of most-recently commented, but they are far from flawless themselves.

My ideal alternative would be some kind of customisable sort order chosen by the user that uses some kind of sentiment analysis of the text to find the kind of posts the user is interested in. For example, you could sort by whether post look serious or joking, how long they are, ratio of words to hyperlinks, etc. Could also filter out ragebait and similar rubbish.

Of course I can see downsides - performance considerations, and it would only work for text posts and comments, but it’s just an idea off the top of my head.

Since anyone can create their own subreddit and become a mod there, does this mean that anyone can look at these profiles?

But why do people want their text editors to do completely unrelated tasks? Genuine question.

I’m curious - what are the advantages of using Bazaar to install Flatpaks as opposed to just installing Flatpaks via the Software Manager in Linux Mint, or equivalent in other OSs.

I just found out I can treat PieFed as an app on android (via Firefox), but the bars at the top and bottom seem to be stuck in light mode even though the phone is in dark mode. Is there a solution?

How do other Lemmy/PieFed/Mbin instances do it?

The forum would be part of the Fediverse, so if it has such issues, then so would every Fediverse site and the knowledge could be shared.

The main differences are:

• package management (how you install new programs)
• release model (fixed vs rolling)
• default desktop environments (the GUI / look and feel)

If a Fedi or BSky instance wants to support connecting to the other side, they should implement both protocols. Bridges are just a duct-tape solution.

I saw an interesting video suggesting that the real motivation is to give megacorps like Google a new business acting as “banks” for identity, i.e. the Internet would get so inconvenient that people would just save their identity with Google (or Meta, etc) and then use them to log in to other websites.

I probably explained it badly, but the video I saw is here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAd-OOrdyMw

People in the comments pointed out that those companies would also have the ability to delete or suspend your identity verification if you did something they didn’t like (or refused to do something they wanted). Reminds me of the SIN from Shadowrun .

If you want to message them about it, now is the time most likely to work.

Good point about the unintentional votes. Maybe just a temporary suspension then.

I thought of another one. In this age of decreasing digital freedom, PieFed (and every other website) should allow people to register multiple email addresses, in case a user suddenly loses access to one.

Yeah, I’m not sure why people want that. In all honestly I wouldn’t implement it if it were me, but if you do I suggest restricting it to communities with the same topic, or maybe even restricting it to communities with the exact same name.

I don’t know if these already exist, but thinking long-term of how to prevent Reddit-like problems:

• An option to move a post to a different community (with the agreement of the other community’s moderators) if the post is in the wrong community, but otherwise seems valid/good-faith/high-effort/etc.

• And for the opposite situation where the post is just garbage, but highly upvoted by bots/brigading, there could be a “nuke it from orbit” option that not only deletes it and bans the poster, but also bans everyone that upvoted it.

Another reason is to avoid the Reddit problem of people upvoting of off-topic posts by people who don’t pay attention to what community it’s posted in. I don’t think Piefed/Lemmy/etc. has those kind of users (yet) but it’s good future-proofing.

I’ve often felt that the web should work more like Git, so you can keep the content locally and just pull updates when you need.

You can view and post in channels on other instances from your home instance without switching. For example, I’m commenting from piefed.social

The term “social media” is already toxic. When I started using the Internet, socialising and media were two separate things. Conflating the two implies that every time we say something, we are publishing an article and should care about how many views and likes we get, instead of making a genuine attempt at connection. And it suggests that every reply should be some kind of review of the post it replies to.

In the days of forums, people would just post what came into mind. They were more honest because there was no number next to your comment rating how good it was.

Browsers should be designed from the start for the benefit of the users. There are too many “features” that only benefit the server owners. It’s been this way for a long time. Like the “Referer” header. Old as dirt, but how do I benefit from telling a server what page I was visiting beforehand?

Client-side scripting is a hack. HTML didn’t have all the tags people wanted or needed, so instead of carefully updating it to include new features, they demanded that browsers just execute arbitrary code on the user’s computer, and with that comes security vulnerabilities, excessive bandwidth use and a barrier-to-entry that makes it difficult to develop new browsers, giving one company a near-monopoly.