What custom ROMs are you using today, with which phone?
All depends on which app / UI you're using I guess but it should look pretty much like Reddit almost everywhere. The only difference here is that there's no grand total at the top of your profile like a high score. But when I was signed up on world, in the app I'm using you could see separate up and down vote counts for everything.
They're really not meaningless though. For one thing, they allow moderators and admins to more easily detect trolls and bad faith actors. And on platforms or with add-ons that allow better tracking of vote history, it allows the user to more efficiently moderate their own experience, should they so choose.
Also, I think you've got to be kind of an asshole to not recognise that a little bit of validation from communities that you participate in is a nice thing to have and that downvotes can hurt to an extent, even if it's not the same as getting physically slapped. And to be clear, I'm not pointing at you or anyone, I'm just riffing here. I haven't even seen downvotes for a while now.
So yeah, I'd say they're meaningless in a video game sense. You're not going to win any prizes with them. But there's a reason they exist, plus no one is immune to the effects of positive or negative reinforcement.
About bloody time. Containers are fine for on the fly use - for checking what pages look like logged out, or visiting a link that you don't want affecting algorithms etc. but for separating personal and work and whatever else, profiles are the way to go. It's actually already pretty easy to add 'about:profiles' to the toolbar but the more accessible they make it, the better.
I look forward to profiles also making it to the Android app 5 to 10 years from now.
Going to be a bit negative but this is something that's kinda annoyed me about Android in the last few years. BREAKING: new shortcut available! And then there's the articles and breaking news for them doing shit like changing the design of the clock slightly every now and then.
What annoys me about all of this is that the very first Android phone that I had, the S4 Mini, that started out on Android 4.3, had custom firmwares around that allowed you to customise every shortcut with anything and choose from multiple styles of clock. Amongst other things.
Which tells me that the folks working on Android could easily make things more customisable but they choose not to so that we can get these articles going on about how awesome a new shortcut is and they get to look like they're always working on these new 'innovations'.
They're running out of ways to add extra cameras, so now they're acting like adding a new shortcut to a button that should've been more configurable in the first place is some sort of technological breakthrough.
For me personally, it's something that I'm always activating in my pocket and have disabled now.
The way I see it, the slippery slope that we're currently on is tolerating nazis and bigots.
Very cool! I really hope it takes off because it's just what this place needs. I'm sure it's gonna be hard work for drag though.
Firstly the obligatory disclaimer that I'm not American, just someone that has been watching this unfold on the same world wide web that we all use.
Maybe I'm too radical but I would say fully. Whether they want a white christian nationalist country or just wanted cheaper eggs. Because that first thing was never a hidden objective, it was clear from the start. We had people who find secret illuminati pizza messages on bathroom walls take one look at Project 2025, an actual real conspiracy and go "doesn't look like anything to me".
So whether they're true right wingers, conspiracy theorists, or people that closed their eyes and ears and hearts while convincing themselves that this was all about cheaper groceries; I'd say they're all equally to blame.
We don't need to reach 1M MAU, but having 100k would already be a nice improvement
Definitely agreed with this. And less always (understandably) angry political posters, more escapists that want to chat about movies, games etc. It becomes like that snake eating itself because people that want a break from real life come here and see nothing but the same 24 news cycle as everywhere else. And then, speaking for myself, searching up certain niche communities and finding them either non-existent or with 3 posts from 1 and a half years ago.
I've been thinking of porting a couple of my old review posts over here from my banned but not yet closed Reddit account. Just so that, for example, the next time someone visits the Ghibli community there'll be 4 posts instead of 3.
And the Sonic communities are pretty disappointing too, considering I'm always seeing it mentioned in the wild these days. Makes me think (or hope) that there's a lot of people like me wishing there was more activity in these areas.
Reddit is sadly still unbeaten in searching up a TV show that you enjoy and finding an entire community built around it. And those communities never took a lot of members. So it shouldn't be impossible here.
So glad that free speech has been restored.
I don't want to directly be responsible for another community on top of admin stuff.
Yes, as a noob here, I'm realising that another thing to consider is that certain instances might just not have the capacity or work force to take everything on at once. So that's quite an understandable position to take. It would be nice to see though, if someone felt so inclined.
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I dunno but I always get the impression that these fucking people that are too cool for school and need to loudly tell everyone how little they care about downvotes every chance they get, are probably also the people that go around using downvotes in bad faith and making the platform a little less welcoming for everyone.
My advice would probably be to just stay away from instances that are populated with the kind of people that use downvotes as a 'disagree' button or panic button to make themselves feel better when reading something they don't understand. Those were always the worst people on Reddit that dragged the experience down for everyone. And it sucks that they're all here too. And in a smaller pond, they're going to be making a bigger splash.
I'd find a nice instance and / or communities to spend 90% of my time in and only actually go to places like Ask Lemmy in world when you actually feel like dealing with smart alecs and neckbeards.
Edit: and downvoting people for talking about downvotes isn't actually funny, it's just proof that you use downvotes for the wrong reasons. For the meme and 'disagree' button.
I'm aware of ask transgender, but what I had in mind would be a lot more general purpose, like Ask Reddit / Lemmy. Just in a better environment.
Reading that previous post made me remember how intimidating it could be joining forum sites and trying to fit in and find your way at first. I'm pretty sure I was intimidated by Reddit at first way back in the day too.
And Ask Reddit style place is perfect to break the ice in that case. I get the impression that a couple of people that are new(ish) to here are trying that and getting edgy and (maybe unintentionally) abrasive responses. And getting scared off. Which made me think of this instance having a section for noobs or people who just like to ask random questions and chat.
Either way, I'm no moderator as I said. So it's just a suggestion anyway, for anyone that might think it's a good idea.
Just joined from my recently created Piefed account. Not sure that I see an option to join / subscribe from my Lemmy account.
I see, it was an app issue. Both of those links show an empty community for me via Eternity. But jumping onto my laptop quick, I see that the working link leads to the Piefed interface (duh), which obviously isn't compatible with apps currently.
Thanks, I did sub to a different Piefed community. This one doesn't show any content for me, at least in the app I'm using.
Yeah I made an account there to check it out actually. I've just been lazy at it. And I've made the assumption that it doesn't have an app yet. So I need to be in the headspace to feel like getting a little bit of shit done on my laptop.
I can always use Firefox Android if it comes down to it though, I've just got a garbage slow phone that struggles a little with Firefox these days, which is why I rely on apps more.
I'm giving myself about another week to shop around and hopefully find a more permanent home. For now I'm learning a lot about the politics and general lay of the land around here.
And yeah, it really wasn't my place to talk about development, considering that I haven't even been here for two weeks. It's just that looking up the what's what regarding multicommunities, and the way the downvote blocking thing is and seemingly always has been implemented didn't inspire much confidence in me. But I think I need to take a backseat in that conversation until I've been here longer.
never progressing much
It's not my place because my own work rate isn't much to speak of, especially in terms of the amount of times that I've started and abandoned programming tutorials over the years now. But that phrase seems to be the answer to a lot of missing / possible features around here so far, from what I've seen. It's like this place reached a certain point in development and now it's just being maintained. Which is sad, I heard about this place a couple of years ago already and from what I can surmise, it hasn't progressed much since then.
Not complaining, I like it here. Just an observation from my uneducated but not completely uninformed viewpoint.
Yeah it seems obvious to me now to choose the busiest server first but when I first came here, the join page was taking forever to load anything lol. So at that point the obvious (to me) choice was the small server advertised as for reducing load.
LineageOS 20 on the Nokia 4.2. The only option for this phone besides LineageOS 19 and it's one of these cases where the dev just stopped updating anything and deleted their XDA profile. Might go back to vanilla but the problem is that's a downgrade in Android version too.
This whole phone is a regret. My previous phone had just died unexpectedly and it was a spur of the moment purchase with a low budget, based on nostalgia for a 'Nokia' that doesn't actually exist anymore. Should've just gone for a cheap Samsung and I probably would've at least had more choice in custom firmwares.