NicoCharrua

Sub.rehab stopped letting people add new communities. What's up with that?

Nah, doesn't really work for me. Most topics I want to follow, hashtags are either not used, or used too broadly so I'm not really interested in what I get, or used too often so my feed gets filled with posts and I can't see the people I'm following.

What I do is if I want to see somebody's posts but I don't want to see all of their posts, I put them into a list. Then if they boost a post I like, I check out the person's account and either add them or don't add them to the list. Doesn't work too well, but it's not awful either.

And then I also have 1 hashtag pinned (Moshidon feature), so that I can see the posts on it without getting them in my home feed.

• Proper federation of favorites and boosts. You can't see favorites from people outside of your instance for some reason, and boosts are sorta federated from people outside of your instance, but still not fully. Lemmy manages to federate upvotes fine, so it seems like it'd be possible.

  The app I use (Moshidon) loads the actual favorite count when you open the favorites list, but it's annoying I have to go through that step.
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• Higher poll option count. 4 is not enough. I'd say it should be at least 6, preferably something like 15 or 25.
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• Higher character count per post. No reason for it to be capped at 500. I'd say the default should be 1500.

  Also I think it's hard for admins to change the default character count, so that should be made easier.
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• I'd really like an algorithm (optional, of course). Getting content you want to see is really difficult. It's hard to find people to follow, and when you do you get all of their posts in your feed, not just the ones you want to see.

Why do you say it doesn't feel the same between instances? The only problem I've seen is subscriber counts not federating.

Lemmy of all platforms is able to work fine without an algorithm. There needs to be some better sorting options, though. 'Hot' prioritizes new posts way too much, so you don't even see posts that are 2 hours old.

Also some way of making posts from smaller communities show up higher since they'll never get as many upvotes as posts from popular communities.

For a while now, the app has been really easy to sign up on, and now the website is the same.

The process got easier in mastodon 4.2.0, now you just have to type in your instance and it takes you to it directly.

I don't have sync on and I can use magic eraser, portrait light, etc.

I never saw the option for photo unblur. Idk if that's because I'm on a Pixel 6A, because it never recognized a photo as blurry, or because I have sync off.

What happened now?

That's a great idea! I didn't know about shields.io. Just added it to [email protected]

I changed the link a little from the one you posted. Mine is:

[![Subscriber Count](https://img.shields.io/lemmy/celeste%40lemmy.ca?logo=lemmy&label=Subscribers)](https://lemmy.ca/c/celeste)

• I added alt text (so if the image doesn't load, or people are using screen readers, they can still understand what it is),
• changed 'Total Subscribers' to just 'Subscribers',
• and made the badge a link to the community in the original instance, so anyone wondering why the numbers don't match up can click the badge to see where the number's coming from.

Easiest way to know for sure is probably to search for it on fedidb.org. Instances don't need to tell you they're on the fediverse, but most of them have a link to the source code which will probably mention activitypub somewhere.

The fear is sometimes overblown, though. It's awful for privacy, but it gets exaggerated a lot of the time, even in the comment you're replying to.

(...) enables websites to use Google's new "Topics API" to view web addresses in your browser history.

People are generally concerned because it allows a site like Petsmart.com to learn that you bank at WellsFargo.com and that you also visit Nickelodeon.com frequently.

This isn't true. Websites only see some of the topics you visit, so in this example maybe Banking (or something a little more specific like savings account), and comics and animation. Here is the list of topics.

What can you do to protect yourself? Don't use Google products or Chromium-based web browsers.

It's a good idea to stop using Google products and Chromium based web browsers, but you don't have to if you want to avoid Topics API. You can opt out of it (at least for now), and some chromium browsers like Vivaldi, Brave and Ungoogled Chromium will probably remove it from their browsers.

Imo the biggest problem with it (over other types of tracking), is that like RagnarokOnline said, any website can get the info, not just the advertisers. So say, the company you're working for could be told you're interested in Job Listings, or Retirement & Pension.