Yeah, I gotta be honest, it works really poorly here, especially when viewing all/hot. It’s just constantly loading new posts and pushing down and off-screen whatever you’re trying to read or click. It’s frankly unusable.

This type of thing should be a user setting, not a site wide setting, IMO.

Yep, this is exactly what I meant. Just the option to disable auto post loading so you see whatever posts where loaded at the time you initially opened the page. If I want to see new posts, I can hit reload myself.

Well, I’m here, aren’t I?

I mourn what it was, yes.

There was a recent comment I read about how it’s become this incredible resource for the most obscure tech and they were reluctant to delete their posts and accounts because they’d receive random messages of thanks years after the post was made.

And it’s true. Reddit has become an invaluable resource for these kinds of things. Not only that, but it’s one of the few places that exists on the web where cohesive and coherent discussions even exist. It was always the community and discussion that made reddit great and they want to turn it into yet another swipebait infested serotonin sponge. I sincerely hope lemmy can take its place, but there are going to be some major growing pains if we get big influx of “redfugees.”

It almost makes me think that when something becomes such an enormous and invaluable public resource, there should be a legal compulsion to archive it before doing anything that will compromise its accessibility.___

Particularly in the way that lemmy isn’t finance bro bullshit

Reddit following in their footsteps shortly after

Right, good point. Scroll down, it disappears. Scroll up, it reappears regardless of scroll position.

Good question. Not sure what the best procedure might be here. Could be as simple promoting them in order of initial mirror deployment dates and the others become mirrors for the newly activated instance.

Triggering the activation could be a part of an instance decommissioning procedure where the operator selects the mirror to become the successor. Maybe there could be some basic system specs and network performance reporting so they could choose the optimal instance. Users would receive a message that their account is being moved to another instance and domain.

In the event of an unexpected outage, there could be a deadman switch style timeout where the fastest mirror activates automatically after the original instance is out for long enough, but also a process for the operator of the downed instance to delay the takeover by signaling, “I’m working on it.” In the event of automatic takeover, since users wouldn’t be able to receive messages, there would have to be some sort of global lemmy notice system so users of the downed instance know where to go, like a sticky post on the front page or maybe just a separate “notices” page.

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That’s definitely my main concern I have with this federated infrastructure. It’s basically the same as IMAP email: if the server goes down, your account and everything it’s associated with goes down with it.

It’s a neat idea and has some benefits, but there really needs to be some sort of backup system in place. Maybe something like mirror instances, where anyone could spin up an instance with the sole purpose of mirroring another instance in case it goes down.

Yeah, I’ll probably do that at some point, but I think repo issues are supposed to be single topic, so I’ll have to do that when I have more time.

You can sub and comment on other instances without registering on each one. However, there is a bit of a fragmented experience when viewing context from your inbox.

Except more and more companies are hopping on this gravy train because they can get away with it. At some point (and that point may be now already, depending on the sector), it’s going to be difficult-to-impossible to buy anything without this subscription bullshit.

Anything that doesn’t incur an ongoing cost to provide should be legally prohibited from being sold as a “subscription.”

Except when they clog up hospitals with lung cancer, emphysema and COPD en masse. Now it’s everyone’s problem.

Unless someone can convince them that healthcare is the work of their boogeyman du jour and they should stay home and suffocate like a real man. Then we’re golden. Hey, Fox News, I have an idea for you…

Very open to learning that this isn’t true, if it isn’t.

That’s not how this works. If you’re going to make serous accusations like that, the onus is on you to provide evidence to support them.

FWIW, I have no particular loyalty to lemmy.ml, I just joined the first instance I saw.

Wow. That headline is downright irresponsible.

Is a captcha out of the question? I guess that wouldn’t capture trolls, but maybe it could slightly reduce the application burden.

doing your own research is the way to fix it,

Ah yes, the classic Im jUsT aSKiNg qUEsTi0nS dogwhistle.

Googling and reading is not “doing research.” Research is hard, strictly methodical work and conducting tightly scoped experiments, not obsessing over conspiracy influencers to reinforce your own confirmation bias.

That’s what got us into this mess of idiots destroying cell towers (because they were causing COVID… somehow?) and groups standing around a boulevard in Texas totally convinced that JFK would be rounding the corner any minute now.

Assuming you’re not making this argument in bad faith (lol), why would private companies be any more trustworthy? They have every motivation to push whatever narrative their owners (read: advertisers) will pay for.

Holy shit, it actually happened. Big bird is about to lose an audience of nearly half a billion. The muskrat’s ego truly knows no bounds.

Edit: apparently the title is a lie