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MaximilianKohler @futurology.today
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JULY '24 UPDATE - we have 40% of our total: Could you help support futurology.today with small contributions to our server costs?
  • Where are you hosting this? Hetzner has very good prices. I'm running multiple websites (including a forum) on a $5/mo server, using Centmin Mod.

    I agree with the other suggestion to put up a link to Open Collective payments or another similar one. There are lots, if you need I can list some.

  • OpenAI and Reddit Partnership
  • Oh my god, this is horrible news. Reddit is a horrible website and only getting worse. OpenAI promoting them and using their garbage content to train their AI systems is alarming. This is so dystopian.

    And of course it always leads back to money:

    Sam Altman is a shareholder in Reddit

  • meta for this site @futurology.today MaximilianKohler @futurology.today

    FYI, most content from other instances is not viewable from this one

    https://futurology.today/post/164245

    >Your instance only knows about users, posts, comments and even communities that it’s already been “told about”. This is how federation works in general on other Fediverse softwares too, but specifically on Lemmy it means someone from your instance needs to be subscribed to a community in order for new posts / comments to federate.

    >It is definitely a big downside for a lot of people, yes. I’ve seen various discussions among server admins of how to handle it, I think some use a bot to basically sub to everything as a workaround to populate the All feed without real users being subscribed. If your server has a meta community maybe you can ask around there whether they’re planning on anything like that?

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    Why do user profiles have different content/history depending on which instance you view them from? And possible bug with searching
  • I may not be understanding correctly, but that seems like a huge downside to the current implementation of federation, and especially hurts new and small instances?

    Using the user's profile example in the OP, one of them doesn't have comments from !lemmy.world/c/politics, so that means that no one on futurology.today has subscribed to /c/politics, and no results will show until someone does?

    I see that https://futurology.today/c/[email protected] loads but the posts are all days old and there's no "top day".

  • Why do user profiles have different content/history depending on which instance you view them from? And possible bug with searching

    Futurology.today blocks fewer instances (and is blocked by fewer) than lemmy.world https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances so it can't be that.

    Search:

    I tried to search this community before posting and when I go to https://futurology.today/c/[email protected] then click the search icon in the top right, it loads a search page https://futurology.today/search that is searching the whole fediverse.

    So I click on "community -> all" and type in "fediverse" then click on this community, and it takes me to https://futurology.today/search?type=All&listingType=All&communityId=70&page=1&sort=TopAll. I see "&communityId=70" in the URL but the page still says it's searching the whole fediverse.

    Are either of these bugs that I should report on github?

    If I do a search from https://futurology.today/search?type=All&listingType=All&communityId=70&page=1&sort=TopAll it does only search this community. But if I use the first link it doesn't.

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    Is is possible to see who upvoted/downvoted a specific comment?
  • Yes, it's possible via kbin.social.

    kbin lets you see who voted for what https://lemmy.world/post/3027601

    Open any post on KBin. Click the url (x comments) so that the title shows in the URL, and add /votes/down. Eg:

    The link is also at the bottom of every thread.

    For comments, click on "more -> activity".

    The URLs are different so you can't just edit the URL, you have to find the post on kbin.social: https://lemmy.world/post/8552850 vs https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/643937

    If a kbin.social user comments on the thread you can find it that way (their fediverse link).

  • meta for this site @futurology.today MaximilianKohler @futurology.today

    Please add Mlmym.org old.reddit UI

    https://mlmym.org/

    Example of it built-in via old.lemmy.world https://old.lemmy.world/post/1941511

    There's also phpBB for Lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB if anyone's interested.

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