Copying URL into search bar? That is really repelling.
I wonder if Lemmy should have the search bar always visible, like Mastodon does
or at least if your window is wide enough to fit it, otherwise it can collapse to the icon, I’ve got plenty of room up here
Basically, I blame Lemmy.
Peertube is older than Lemmy though.
What you suggest isn’t actually a bad idea, but if that was the goal then they shouldn’t even pretend to support user accounts only channel accounts, channel accounts wouldn’t need to be able to like/comment/subscribe either. They wouldn’t have to bother with their UI rendering likes/dislikes/comments, they wouldn’t need buttons to subscribe, and they wouldn’t need a mobile app either. It’s a good idea, just be a video backend and only support the embedded video player (as it appears on Mastodon), but it doesn’t seem like that was their goal.
They support everything, they just don’t encourage it? A logged in user doesn’t use much more server resources than an anonymous user. It’s still fetching all the video stats and comments, and of course the video itself which is the biggest thing. Kinda seems like it’s just for moderation concerns.
yes Youtube has maybe a billion user accounts with 0 videos, it’s the main way to use the platform
they seem to only give accounts to creators
Yea this is a bit silly. It seems like they manually approve user accounts because they need to be careful with the uploads using up their storage. But a way better solution would be to approve users more liberally, and user accounts would be created without a channel so they cannot upload anything, and creating channels needs to be approved. That way people can freely make user accounts for browsing/following, and the admins can still restrict spam channels from being created and uploading videos.
yea Youtube lets you use the same name, but the extra organization that Peertube gives seems pretty cool too
YouTube is a bit different because you can use your username as your channel name, and then you can have multiple “brands” that aren’t linked to your username. People can’t find those from your main account.
All of the biggest instances could take turns running ads for themselves lol
I don’t think defed has been that bad, and I think over time we’ll get more features to avoid having to defed (aside from illegal content or spam).
Like users being able to block users and/or communities by instance, or admins being able to set default block lists for new users, or users being able to easily share block lists.
what’s the best peertube instance to upload gaming videos to? I might upload some and see how it goes
edit: I think I’m gonna go with spectra, but omg this is annoying:
Channel identifier cannot be the same as your account name. You can click on the first step to update your account name.
I get it, they’re separate actors, but still annoying. Can people find my channel by either name? Edit2: yes they can, all the user’s channels are listed on the user profile, which maybe makes it worth the signup annoyance
yea but it definitely pushed a lot of people away, if we had Lemmy v0.19.8 back then we would’ve retained way more users
just not the luckiest timing maybe, could’ve been a lot worse though (like before Lemmy even supported federation)
Keep that up for a few more months
I’m not confident that the internet’s attention span is that long, unfortunately
To view a link on your own instance, paste it into your instance’s search.
Example with a link to a similar discussion: https://lemmy.ca/post/38173834 (paste that URL into your Lemmy’s search, like this)
(edit: I’ve been told that Lemmy is a bit smarter than I thought when doing those searches)
the way hashtags work? Mastodon has the same issue
The problem with hashtags is that the post itself won’t be federated unless someone is following the user who made the post (or someone who boosted it). So Lemmy would be unable to see those posts anyways.
I have thought about a simple ActivityPub service that pulls a Mastodon RSS feed of a hashtag and boosts them all from a group/community actor, I think that would work for following from Lemmy.
the difference is the level of control
X and Facebook are closed source, so you can’t review them and they could be hiding stuff in their code or just do things people don’t like and we can’t revert
they also control the servers and don’t let you self host, so they can make bad admin decisions and there’s nothing we can do
and they also horde the content so you can’t get it from somewhere else, which means you can’t just leave and use a different platform (not easily at least)
over here if you don’t like the devs then you don’t need to donate to them, you don’t need to use their instance, or we can fork their code, or even use an alternative (like Mbin vs Lemmy)
you could try following people from here: https://fediverse.info/explore/people?t=photography
Pixelfed is growing like crazy (as always make sure to read the Y-axis labels)
https://pixelfed.fediverse.observer/dailystats
Hopefully they get good integration with Lemmy and get some of that content showing up over here too lol
is there something like this for Mastodon? I think microblogging really needs a content discovery algorithm for the mainstream audience
This is cool, seems to work pretty well, and an easy way to find communities you want to subscribe to
yea that’s basically what I did
https://spectra.video/a/die4ever/video-channels
!mods4ever@spectra.video and !die4everplays@spectra.video