Tuuktuuk

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[–] Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee 1 points 11 minutes ago
[–] Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee 1 points 13 minutes ago

You could just read from sources you have subscribed to and skip the "All". That way you don't need to bother with content filters :) You also aren't really forced to follow the communities that are about US politics.

[–] Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee 1 points 22 minutes ago (2 children)
  1. The multiple instances.

You only use one. You don't need to care too much about this.

  1. Multiple communities that are the same name.

This one can be confusing indeed. I hope they will ask if they encounter this. Then you tell them they're on a different Lemmy, and that the two are interconnected. And that'll help them understand a bit about federating.

  1. What is exactly decentralization.

Not really important for using Lemmy. Nice to know, if you like being tech-savvy, but not necessary for using.

  1. Federation

This was already mentioned as "2." You can read and write posts without understanding this. You'll get the point of federation at some point.

  1. Difference instances can give different results

Different groups have different rules anyway. Some of them are derived from the instance's rules, but whatever. Same end result. Not necessary to understand for basic usage.

  1. How Moderation works is different than the usual platforms.

How is it different, actually?

  1. Community discovery is different. Searching for something can be quite difficult on Lemmy.

I've never had trouble searching for something. Maybe that's because before Lemmy I basically used only Facebook and there you cannot really find anything by searching anyway. For me Lemmy's search works just fine for searching for what communities exist. Haven't felt a need for something more.

  1. Lemmy’s community has a lot of tech-jargon which non-tech savvy people might find difficult to wrap their head around.

You don't need to understand everything on this planet. If you cannot wrap your head around something, then don't. You don't need to participate in every conversation.

  1. How the banning system works on Lemmy is different than the usual platforms as well.

They'll figure this one out if they ever get banned. Otherwise, it's irrelevant for reading and writing.


All in all... Understanding federating isn't strictly necessary for reading and writing in communities, but yeah, it is good to understand at some point. Everything else... Meh. Things that are nice to know, but you are able to follow communities and write in them just fine also without understanding those things.

[–] Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee 4 points 11 hours ago

Ah, a different "here" 🐳

[–] Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

What if I just give you my contact on Telegram and you throw me a video call and see that no, I'm just a person who has grown in such different environment than your that I cannot recognize the context in which you are making your basic assumptions?

I'm not stupid, literally, but I am apparently very inexperienced in the regards of many things that are absolutely everyday for you.

[–] Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee 1 points 11 hours ago

On Voyager(Android e/os) and desktop Firefox(Ubuntu) quite equally.

So, in this context the sensible answer is: Desktop.

[–] Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee 2 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Sounds mostly very cool! How would it know which one is my home instance?

[–] Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee 5 points 20 hours ago

Heroiam slava!

[–] Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Heroiam slava!

[–] Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee 6 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Uh, what? I have only ever used instances that block Hexbear, but I haven't felt that there's no good content. What would you describe I'm missing?

[–] Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee 1 points 20 hours ago

Looks like an interesting game. Thanks!

 

So, PieFed's way of retrieving a post that you're viewing on a "wrong" instance is quite slow for the user. You press the icon with the magnifying glass, scroll to the bottom of the page, read texts on both of the buttons, choose the correct one (Retrieve post), then wait for the page to load – which is suprisingly slow, then paste the URL in the field and press enter, and then wait for the next page to load and still have to press a link.

What I'm envisioning is that if I'm viewing a page such as https://sopuli.xyz/post/32069389 , I could just write "Piefed" in front of the URL, making my browser load the "Retrieve remote post" page with the relevant field prefilled with the URL after that word. So, if the URL says "Piefed https://sopuli.xyz/post/32069389", I then get to the page with a link to https://piefed.ee/post/85356 , enabling me to click that link and get to comment on the post.

This would streamline browsing threadiverse a LOT, because it keeps happening that I find links that throw me to "wrong" instances. Sometimes they are in threadiverse comments, sometimes* they are out there in the big internet. It's an annoying chore having to click a button and wait and click a button and wait and then click a link and wait again. Anything that streamlines this experience would be very welcome!

So, is there a way to make this happen on Firefox? (Also, could we please get the field for writing the URL to fetch right on the Piefed UI? Such as, click "Communities ▾", then throw the link into a field on the bottom of the thing that opens that way (and maybe get to the requested page immediately without having to click an extra link first?)

*) Still very rarely, but it has already happened!

 

I began hitchhiking when I was around 16- or 17-year-old. I was at a summer camp's reunion at someone's place in Nummela, and wanted to try how hitchhiking works.

It was a 24 km ride home, along a straight highway. I got the ride near the Citymarket in Nummela and left near Ikea in Espoo. A beginning that eventually led into me identifying as a hitchhiker :)

 

VR lähetteli sähköpostia, että he ovat tänään aloittaneet yöjunalippujen myynnin kevään juniin.

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