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Lemmy and Mastodon feel like the real web3. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by kiriakos@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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I think this decentralization and federation is what web3 is all about, without all the corporations calling everything to do with monkey pixel art that costs a million dollars "web3"

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[-] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 86 points 2 years ago

It's nice to have this space to retreat to. Even if it doesn't outcompete the corporate web anytime soon, the existence of another option will constrain how bad they can get a bit, and will create a place for refugees to go after each new outrage. And it's not like the core functionality of any of the corporate sites was that complicated underneath all the bloat, after people have been on here working out the kinks for a while there's no reason it should be any less convenient of an experience.

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago

agreed, i can’t remember the last time reddit added an actual useful feature.

[-] nepatriots32@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

The only thing they did do relatively recently that I liked was adding the option for subs to not archive posts that are older than 6 months. But I guess when you think about it, that's more of just taking a restriction away, and less of adding something new. Other than that, though, it's either just useless stuff or stuff that actively made things worse.

[-] totallynotsocsa@beehaw.org 10 points 2 years ago

Holy shit, is that why I got a random influx of trolls commenting on 5 year old comments?

[-] thecdc1995@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

To be fair about the archiving thing you have to consider that being able to make old data read only allows you to optimize a lot of things. With good engineering the allowance for archival should make the whole site faster and more stable. So sort of a soft feature.

[-] nepatriots32@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I get that, and it could make sense to archive things at some point, but I do think it was nice for certain communities, aside from things like sports, news, etc., to be able to still comment on old posts. Especially help posts or things like that, because they could still be relevant months or even years later.

[-] StrandIntro@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There should be a way to unarchive something if that's the case, which works better than a new post which references the previous one with small addendums or questions. This is especially useful when people are searching for information on certain topics and everything is contained within one post rather than 5 posts because the earlier ones were archived. Many people will never continue searching and see all of the newer information once they have found the old now incomplete posts.

[-] ultimate_question@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

word is they've got 300 full time devs in the april fools experiment department

[-] haxasaur@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

The multi-image post, but only worked on new reddit.

[-] SubmarineDoor@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Seeing your post my first thought was that multi-image albums always worked on old.Reddit. But actually I was thinking of a Reddit Enhancement Suite feature. Which is another open-source toolkit that was provided by the community to Reddit.

Happy to see that the Open Source came up with something top-to-bottom like Lemmy and the Fediverse!

[-] haxasaur@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I meant actually making a post with multiple images. Old reddit only allowed one, whereas new reddit, you can upload multiple to one and it creates a gallery.

Yes, RES would let you see all the images afaik. I can't remember the last time I browsed on my desktop without RES.

[-] Weerdo@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

Feels like old school forums again. A little barebones compared to some of the corporate stuff, but that's not a bad thing. Just the simple what's needed no extra fluff.