UnanimousStargazer

joined 1 year ago

Voyager is now available as a native app in the app/play store

Voyager is extremely impressive for what it is - webapp

It's not only a webapp anymore, but also available as native app now

[–] UnanimousStargazer@feddit.nl 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, this is the most serious lacking feature IMO.

But you could of course simply register your username at multiple instances and subscribe to the same communities. As there's no 'followers' like on Mastodon, the effect is the same.

[–] UnanimousStargazer@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If that's so, these instances (and who knows which other ones in the world) now host OPs and comments that I as an author decided to delete.

How does one delete information from the fediverse? If this is true, you cannot. Your data will be hosted forever, at least somewhere.

If people use their personal name for an account, this might result in a significant GDPR problem for all instances.

 
  • Search for 'juridisch advies' on lemmy.world

  • You should find the community 'juridisch' on feddit.nl:

!juridisch@feddit.nl

  • Find the OP: 'Vraagt een verhuurder meer dan twee maanden borg? Betaalt een verhuurder niet op tijd terug? Vanaf zaterdag is dat niet meer toegestaan.'

  • Click on it

  • Click on my username

You can find various of my OPs and comments, but I deleted them days ago on the feddit.nl instance. These OPs aren't visible on the feddit.nl instance, but they're visible on lemmy.world.

Why? The same goes for lemmy.ml, but it concerns a different number of OPs and comments.

What will Apple do if they if the EU continues their plans with regard to client side scanning? That's not one country, but many.

Apple previously planned on introducing client side scanning, but backed out after they received a high amount of critique.

 

Should social media platforms only allow upvotes or favorites?

As I understand it, Kbin doesn't allow downvotes just like Mastodon. Users can only mark a comment or OP favorite (upvote) and the Kbin user can see what account favorited / upvoted their comment or OP. Also if it's from a Lemmy user by the way.

Yeah, I agree this unwanted behavior of Lemmy. It's a variation on 'security by obscurity'. It's 'social security' by obscurity. Except that it isn't obscure at all.

I didn't know Kbin users could see the upvotes, but I've just discovered that kbin users only see favorites. Just like on Mastodon.

Check out the Kbin page @banaflip@kbin.social shared in another comment. You can see who upvoted your comment under 'activity'. If you upvote my comment, my comment favorite count increases with one. And you can see you are one of the 'upvoters' under favorites.

If however you downvote my comment, one of the favorites appears to get removed. By you. Even if you didn't upvote before. At least, that's what I think happened when I tried this on another comment.

Well, that's about it. But isn't this strange?

  • Upvotes/downvotes are actually favorites on Kbin
  • If a Lemmy user downvotes a Kbin comment, one favorite gets removed

At least, that's what appears to be happening. You can check for yourself with the link provided to the Kbin instance above.

[–] UnanimousStargazer@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Interesting. But that's more like the Mastodon favorite I guess. And considering the heavy Mastodon/Kbin similarities, that's not surprising of course.

There's also a downvote and upvote section, but those are all empty.

I'll deliberately try to downvote your comment to see what happens.

Edit: indeed, there's no downvote. Just one less upvote. How does this work?

Edit2: I've undone my downvote and now two favorites show again. But what's weird is that my downvote simply removed the upvote of the (first?) upvoter of your comment. Is this really what Kbin does? You cannot start removing upvotes of random other users can you?

[–] UnanimousStargazer@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Isn't that weird?

Kbin users can see it, admins can see it, but Lemmy users cannot.

[–] UnanimousStargazer@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apparently, Kbin users can also see what Lemmy users upvote them. Is that correct?

 

I stumbled upon this issue on github:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3291

But I didn't know or expect Kbin users can see what Lemmy users upvote or downvote their post. Is this indeed what Kbin users can do?

No, what I mean is that any user can randomly start sending DMs to another user and I don't want any DMs.

Blocking is an action when the DM was already received.

 

I'm receiving unwanted and unsolicited DMs on my account, but I don't want to use DM.

Currently, there appears to be no possibility to disable DMs however, which IMO should be an option that needs to be developed with priority. But I'm not a developer and it's obviously easy to ask for prioritized options to be developed if you don't have to develop them yourself. And of course, I haven't got a clue what else has priority.

That said: where can I submit a feature request for the Lemmy developers?

And does anybody happen to know if it's possible to block DMs on Kbin?

 

I see a very small minority of people using Kbin, but I don't understand why.

Is this just a coincidence and did some people choose Kbin over Lemmy or is there a good reason to use Kbin?

 

I don't want to receive DM or private messages, but there doesn't seem to be a way to disable that.

Is it possible to disable DM?

 

Much like Meta has decided to join the fediverse, Reddit could also decide to setup it's own instance(s) and federate with the existing Lemmy instances.

What is your opinion about that? Should your instance block a Reddit instance? Or would you welcome it?

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