I downloaded the app about an hour before I left that comment. It wasn’t fixed for me, same with the flashbang issue.

I literally downloaded this app an hour ago, and I have this bug, so I guess it still exists

I love the app so far, it’s beautiful and I enjoy the themes a lot. I think my Lemmy usage will skyrocket now that I have this app haha (I’ve been using the mobile web version all this while). One suggestion I have is to maybe reduce the size of the upvote/downvote buttons in the comments because they’re pretty large compared to the text, but this is far from a priority of course. Keep up the good work.

I personally use lemmyverse.net, it has a beautiful UI imo

I know that, sadly. Doesn’t stop me from feeling disgusted by it.

This makes me sick honestly. r/place is one of the nicest memories I have of Reddit and now they’re using it as a cheap tactic to bait us to come back. Really a low blow.

Seeing people here pushing back for once against the trigger-happy defederating mindset actually gives me hope in the future of this instance.

Firstly, the alt-right is far from a modern issue. And secondly it’s nothing to do with feeling bad for them. I couldn’t agree less with the nonsense they’re saying there. I’m saying that defederating them doesn’t “prevent the issue in the first place” at all. Isolating communities only makes them get more extreme over time. Refusing to let them interact with us only causes their beliefs to be echoed and amplified in their communities. And I should clarify again, by no means am I saying that they should be allowed to promote their hateful messages here. If they break the rules of our instance, here in our instance, they should be banned, simple.

I agree with this. Isolating communities that have odious beliefs only lead to those beliefs being echoed and intensified in their small spaces, and hence become more extreme over time. It’s not “nipping the issue in the bud” like many people seem to think it is, it’s the complete opposite. Past a certain line we definitely should cut ties, but I guess it’s debatable where that line should be drawn.

Our instance’s rules are for our own instance. If they come over here and start spewing ridiculous nonsense, then sure, we should start banning them. For now they aren’t even causing much trouble. If they do in the future then I’d support defederating, but I disagree with jumping the gun.

No one is forcing anything. You’re allowed to block them, so do just that. If anything, defederating is the more “forcing” course of action.

I agree. I don’t like this whole principle of dictating what members are or are not allowed to see. Defederating should be a last resort. Everyone has a block button.

It’s a feature that’s already been requested that the Lemmy devs are looking at iirc

I don’t think we should reevaluate our policy just to get 1 specific instance to refederate us…. Anyway, Beehaw’s mindset has always been exclusive and restrictive, despite being a larger instance. Even if we switch to closed registration, they may disagree with our vetting process. It’s just part of their community ideals of creating a “safe space” aligned with their “community values”. I completely disagree with their course, but it’s their instance, so whatever, their call.

Well, yes and no. For instance (no pun intended), the site for your home instance is a page you’re going to be landing on a lot, so you’d want one which loads smoothly and reliably for you, and this often depends on your instance’s server infrastructure. Some larger instances are already being overloaded. Another concern is probably stability and longevity, since the fate of your account is tied to the instance that hosts it, so you’d have to choose one you trust. And the last one is moderation: you don’t want to join an instance where the admin is known for being shady and randomly banning people or blocking lots of instances. That being said, so long you choose a reliable instance it doesn’t matter too much which one it is.

I think what’s scaring a lot of people off is moderation. I’ve considered creating a few communities myself but I’ve never been one for managing. I try to do my part by interacting with communities that have been created and driving activity. Huge kudos to those who are founding these communities though.

I also agree the front page subs were mostly filled with shallow fiction, but there was definitely good stuff going for Reddit before Spez f’d it up. I’d say the magic was in the small and niche hobby/fandom subs, the communities in a lot of them were truly unique and vibrant.

Reddit didn’t have an official for ages either (though there were cough brilliant third party apps which drew in massive amounts of mobile users that Reddit toootally would know better than to shut down cough). Right now I’m hoping some capable indie dev picks up Lemmy like those third party devs picked up Reddit, but that would definitely take time. I agree having an intuitive mobile app would probably be a great step for the growth of the Fediverse though.

Before this entire fiasco, I didn’t even realise googling “____ Reddit” was such a global phenomenon. But I also didn’t realise just how much I relied on these surprisingly specific answers to just about everything until now that it’s gone. Damn… I’ll miss it.

This is the first instance that immediately accepted me when I tried to register. I tried other auto accept instances but my applications literally wouldn’t get through and I’d be stuck on the application page. Anyway, so far I find this site really neat and the loading speed is the best I’ve tried. Thank you for setting up this instance, admins. Hope the Fediverse grows.