This was the inevitable outcome. Plex has been on the enshitification path for a while. Been telling people to save themselves some grief and just move to Jellyfin now. You’ll have to do it eventually once Plex hits another step on their path.
Oh, so /r/drama shitposting is here now? Wonderful.
Give Summit a try. It’s got all those search options, and it seems to work well enough any time I use it.
If you liked RIF on Reddit, it’s far and away the closest I’ve found.
Can it be set up so you never have to worry about account switching? Unified feed from all accounts, then if I load up a Lemmy.world post, it defaults to the Lemmy.world account, but if I want to post to Dbzer0, can I set it to shift to that account automatically?
I’d argue the front ends should also provide users ways to see a more complete, instance-agnostic version of Lemmy. Like the first thing a user should see when they show up is just…Lemmy. not a page that suggests instances and all kinds of other things that they’re not going to understand.
Part of what made Reddit work is that it was a shared site, a shared hub, and every user saw the same thing depending on what they were subscribed to. I get that certain instance admins have problems with other instances, and I get that they might defederate from some for legal or security reasons. I know they also might police their servers for content and comments they don’t feel “fit”, and that’s their right.
But ultimately I don’t believe the user’s experience should suffer for that. If admins don’t want to host certain content on their servers, fine. I think that’s where the front ends and apps should come in.
Provide ways of unifying the experience of different user accounts on different instances into something more…well, unified. I don’t believe I should have to care about what instance I’m looking at Lemmy “from”, I should just be able to see the whole thing based on what I’ve subscribed to.
I know that’s a very complicated suggestion, and it might involve a lot of redundancies and crossed wires, and how the moderation would look is definitely a discussion (maybe a drop down list “see this community as moderated by ______”?)
But genuinely I think if an app can achieve something like this, it would go a long way towards making the experience more universal and attractive for an audience looking to come from elsewhere. They do not care about decentralization or instances, and we can’t make them care by lecturing them. So we do the next best thing and create a sort of facsimile of centralization.
reply guys surfing in from elsewhere
I love this term.
They really do love storming in anywhere someone deigns to besmirch the new object of their devotion.
My assumption is, if it isn’t some techbro that drank the kool aid, it’s a bunch of /r/wallstreetbets assholes who have invested in the boom.
It’s frustrating the image for that article is of the 4th Doctor, given the BBC had stopped erasing tapes by the era of the 3rd Doctor. There are no missing 4th Doctor episodes.
Kind of wish they would stop trying to push this as “editing”.
If all you can do is draw on top of it, you’re not actually editing it.
I’m not shaming them, I understand why they can’t have a full built-in PDF editor, but people that don’t know any better are going to open it up expecting an actual editor and be disappointed.
To be fair, that shouldn’t be the only way to do it. There should be an obvious way to do that in the settings as well.
You’re doing fantastic work work with app.
Generally speaking, if users aren’t seeing your app has an update on the play store, tell them to search for the app or clear the play store cache on their phone. This usually makes the update show.
This is pretty typical of the play store. Ther s two solutions, generally:
Search for the app, and in the results it will show an Update button for the app.
Clear the cache on both the Play Store and Google Play Services, reboot, open the play store and look at your app list again.
My Jellyfin is also running media from recycled HDDs from work. No where near this impressive haul, but it was nice to be able to get a solid 10 TBs for free to get my server going.
Other problems include newpipe having an old material interface
That’s a selling point for me.
That’s just a classic issue with most tech people: they either forget or don’t know how to adjust their speech for a different audience than themselves. Often they don’t even comprehend just how much “common knowledge” isn’t actually common outside their social spaces.
Then there’s some that are deliberately refusing to help uninformed people understand, or are even outright hostile to them.
Yep, the timing lines up. As part of the buyout offer, they probably had to demonstrate an effort to cripple the open source fork of the thing IBM wants to buy.
It’s kind of like telling people to “tune in”. It’s just a turn of phrase that has stuck regardless of how old fashioned or ill-fitting it sounds.
Recently discovered it myself. Absolutely excellent.
They’re not going to invest in it if they don’t own it, and frankly I’m happy they don’t.
To offer the counterpoint:
Local and private communities, if they remain only for meta content, is fine. But if they are used for other content, because they don’t want other instances seeing or interacting with it, it can permit an instance to isolate itself and its content from the rest of the fediverse, while still being able to enjoy all the shared content from other instances. I.e. show me yours, but I won’t show you mine.
Then, if these local only communities are the only places where people on that instance are sharing certain content, it’s breaking the whole idea that it shouldn’t matter what instance you’re on. If instances can remain insular, it starts making more instances attractive based on their size. “If you want to enjoy this content, come join our instance.”
Then they need to ban the bigots. Why should only the people on that instance have access to the safe space? Why is someone from another instance instantly judged as making the safe space less safe? It’s basically saying “come join our instance”, which is, again, going to cause unintended consequences.