You can use KDE discover and GNOME software to read reviews , they use the same review database (ODRS), there is also flatstat.

A decentralized option is librate which is still in development.

As you might notice, the new comments are shown YELLOW, that’s not a bug, it’s apparently a new feature in Lemmy…

I made the feature request to add incremental reading , but the method they use seem like non of the methods i suggested (I think it highlights all comments after X minutes) and I think that is a way that is useful to no one, If the instance owners of lemmy.world think it is not good maybe they could provide feedback on the issue, or at least request an option to disable it, the owners seem like they are in a good position to collect feedback.

This shows nothing, probably some kind of glitch.

Where there is some important design decision that the project leaders don’t want to change.

Honestly i don’t think these are good enough reasons to create a new project, there are other open source reddit alternatives and non of them toke off, it’s hard to build a project like that and having NLNET funding might have made it seem easier then it is.

Forking might have been a better options, or just developing a sever addon API so you could create plugins like on wordpress or discourse.

I tend to believe competition is good but in this case it seems like it will just fragment the already limited resources of the fediverse.

I warned someone that the project he started probably won’t replace an existing popular project and eventually he seems to have abandon it, he could have spend that time improving the existing project.

I realize this is not feel good advice and i could be wrong, but i felt like i should say it.

Seems like it is already possible, after clicking “permissions” when making a post it shows:

This post will be shown only to the people in the first box, to the exception of the people mentioned in the second box. It won’t appear anywhere publicly.Start typing the name of a contact or a circle to show a filtered list. You can also mention the special circles “Followers” and “Mutuals”.

I’ve noticed this quite a bit among people I talk to and honestly just doesn’t help move the conversation anywhere meaningful.

What do you expect? If you have a way to improve the fediverse then just start a project or at least make a suggestion (although i doubt that’s helpful).

Having something like an open source version of good judgement open might make things more interesting, at least it will be possible to detect “superforcaster” and direct people attention to them.

There is a fair bit of research on what makes people good at predicting, see the good judgement project, in particular there is this article:

Participants were above average in intelligence and political knowledge relative to the general population. Individual differences in performance emerged, and forecasting skills were surprisingly consistent over time. Key predictors were (a) dispositional variables of cognitive ability, political knowledge, and open-mindedness; (b) situational variables of training in probabilistic reasoning and participation in collaborative teams that shared information and discussed rationales (Mellers, Ungar, et al., 2014); and © behavioral variables of deliberation time and frequency of belief updating. We developed a profile of the best forecasters; they were better at inductive reasoning, pattern detection, cognitive flexibility, and open-mindedness. They had greater understanding of geopolitics, training in probabilistic reasoning, and opportunities to succeed in cognitively enriched team environments. Last but not least, they viewed forecasting as a skill that required deliberate practice, sustained effort, and constant monitoring of current affairs.

TL;DR: speculating is fun but you should also look at the facts

I don’t think proprietary social media is going to collapse , mark zuckerberg got a perfact SAT score, Thinking he won’t notice his platform will degrade in quality is IMO wishful thinking.

Yeah there was no rise in the number of servers, you might say that theoretically it means nothing but in practice i don’t think i ever saw these two metrics not correlate.

Any highlights?

This shouldn’t really make any difference. In lemmy it would appear as a normal reply notification once per thread.

Still an annoyance, i post on reddit and lemmy for years, to keep having to delete that reply for years to come could accumulate to a significant amount of time, and small segments of time wasted tend to add up

I’ll see if I can expand the bot, but I don’t want each reply to end up like a wall of text.

You could add the “about this bot” the line above it ( making a two lines message) but this could be cryptic and therefore off putting for new lemmy users (creating a bad impression of the platform).

That would defeat the purpose, as the discovery from mastodon would happen days/weeks/months after that thread was active.

When you reply the person you reply to still get notifications , lemmy “active” sort bumps posts when they get new comments (see docs) and anyway most of the time i assume people just read comments and don’t respond, and the idea is to make lemmy more discoverable so after that they could visit lemmy and participate more actively.

Repeatedly getting tagged by this bot sounds like it is a PITA.

Having a command you can send with a private message so it won’t tag you could be useful , something like :

dontTagMe: @wiki_me@lemmy.ml .

It’s also pretty confusing if you encounter a post the first time, having it write something like :

new lemmy post: ‘Moving media library to bigger HDD’ on community #Selfhosted by @rambos

(Replying in this thread will appear as a comment in the lemmy discussion.)

about this bot (link to a explanation)

Could be more understandable.

Regarding you saying on the read me you are not a rust developer A tutorial on youtube implies you can learn the basics in aboutt 3h, since your contribution gets reviewed by experienced developer that should be enough and you can learn more things on the fly (Assuming there are more things you want to contribute to on lemmy).

having a command where the moderators of a community can tweak the frequency of posting (or maybe even posting just the top post for day/week/month etc) could also be helpful

I think “multireddits” can help with that (it’s the issue with the most “thumbs up” on the lemmy issue tracker) , You could have multireddits based on mood or importance (Sometimes i might want to read up about subject X, other times on subject Y).

There is a certain amount of scientific evidence that shows that on average women are more fearful and have more anxiety then men (While having on average other positive traits more then men).

Allowing users to block users from certain instance might help with that.

I have used friendica for a while, It’s pretty good has not character limit and RSS support, what turned me off is that it kept logging me off and i had to keep reenter the username and password (but maybe that was an instance specific problem or is already fixed).

My advice if you want to study this, is to first spend at least one year working a tech job with that CS degree, and sock away as much cash as you can.

Also learning about financial Independence (FIRE) a vanguard (investment bank owned by customers) index fund will probably double your money every about ten years, maybe faster because there is evidence the stock market is becoming more efficient, 5 years will give you about 40 percent.

tbh IMO i Don’t think you could persuade them to do that, the whole make decentralized social media more decentralized is not something that will have significant value to them, would be better to have some volunteer led non profit with a governance model that has a decentralized power structure as the “default” option.

Tagging users (for example “lemmy developer”), keeping scores of upvotes and downvotes, and marking comments as read and hiding them.

See the feature requests for lemmy i made for details.

It still has advantages, you don’t have to depend on some server and trust it will keep your data, you can build features on top of a certain front end and don’t have to re-implement functionality and maybe even support multiple front ends.

I really like this linus torvalds quote:

Don’t ever make the mistake [of thinking] that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle

People have opinions but lets be completely honest here what do they know? Why not trying to build it and see what happens, it might work, btw I myself thought about having something like “fediverse greatest hits” that would show the most liked posts for a particular hashtag so maybe that could be configured to do that.