According to the feedback, I just shut down this project, perhaps permanently. Sorry for all the harm I caused.
Anyone know if this harm was anything more than just hitting API limits?
There’s a pretty strong no-scraping (and scraping-adjacent) sentiment within Mastodon
People are upset that the things they posted publicly are viewable publicly?
The feeling is that simply having it be public isn’t an automatic license to re-use or “re-appropriate” the content outside of what’s required for normal network functionality. From that perspective, federating a post to a normal Mastodon / fediverse server = OK, viewing that post in your browser = OK, but many other uses = not OK.
This subset of the userbase want the norm for “extracurricular uses” of people’s posts to be opt-in only, even for public posts. What exactly qualifies as OK/not, I’m not sure, but there’s been discussions about it in the past which you could probably find and read.
I kind of envy the idea in some ways (aggressive requirement of consent), though in the world we currently live in, it does seem unrealistic without a team of lawyers behind it.
this is why I usually browse Lemmy in new/comments/all, I just wish it had more than one page at a time or the ability to set more posts in one page
Photon has infinite scrolling :). lemmyusa.com runs it
Hello,
When are you planning to update to 0.19.8?
Here in the next few weeks. I want to ensure nothing breaks, but I really just haven’t gotten around to it.
Nice!
People really do be needing to look at the Local and Global timelines. There’s a lot of chatter about regular, non-linuxy things there.
Honestly, I think I’m completely sold on the idea that the Local timeline should be the default.
I love the idea of the decentralized services, but trying to browse global all is a nightmare. Even browsing local all I have a ton of communities blocked and add more every day. The only downside is when communities I like migrate to a different instance. I still try global all once every few months, but it never lasts long.
Subscribed should definitely be the main feed for most people, that’s the best way to get a curated feed.
Getting multiple personal feeds would also help.
Discoverability is my biggest issue with the subscribed feed. If I’m using subscribed, I’m not finding new communities. Curating a set of base communities that I want to see does seem like it would be worth the effort, though. Thanks for the suggestion.
On Lemmy I browse Subscribed until I run out of new posts. Then I switch to All and look for communities to add. Over time I’ve been spending more and more time on Subscribed, as my list grows.
This post is about Mastodon, I haven’t been able to figure that place out yet.
