Good post.

Wrong community.

Wahoo absolutely does this.

Clickable links, for sure. But machine-handled links like RSS feeds and ActivityPub subscriptions? Maybe not.

He also went on Reddit and defended his statements by saying he wasn’t familiar with American politics and he’s sorry if he triggered people. So he’s claiming to be unaware of thing because he doesn’t engage in American politics, and at the exact same time, he’s using right-wing talking points like misusing the term “triggered” to mean “upset left-leaning people”. Something he could only have picked up if he’s lurking in right-wing spaces.

Ah right, thanks. I only searched for “meta”, not “announcements” when looking for an answer to my question before posting. But looks like my instance stopped federating that community a year ago anyway.

Fwiw Stanford was basically a scam. The story as it’s usually told is a lie, and its results are in serious contention, even beyond the usual replication issues psychology studies have.

Milgram is a good study, and even seems to have survived multiple replication attenpts, but its results are often overstated in their broader applicability. Notably: there are issues around the idea that it is “authority” that causes people to comply, as is usually claimed, instead of a belief in “expertise” or trust in the system (e.g. that a university-authorised study is obviously not going to kill people). Still, the conclusions are good enough for the purposes of your comment here.

The pinging would be done by the back end, not the UI, so no, I don’t believe it would ping them.

It leads to their profile on your own instance.

In addition to what Blaze said, there’s a much more public desire to leave Instagram because of how publicly awful Facebook and Zuckerberg are. Spez is not really any better, but outside of our bubble people don’t really see that as much—party because he has so much less money to push his ideas outside of Reddit.

And it’s just fortuitous that unlike Twitter, Instagram doesn’t have any real competition that isn’t using Activity Pub.

The /u/ formatting works exactly the same as the @ formatting, except for different platforms. Right now, /u/ creates a link that goes to their profile on lemmy-ui (the default web interface). But @ creates a link on Jerboa (the first-party app) and Sync (a third-party app).

IMO a “simple browser” of this sort should display literally only the content in the HTML file itself. It shouldn’t even view CSS stored in a separate local CSS file, let alone reach out to the web to download more content.

In Sync, when you see your comment, does it create a link you can click to go to murd0x’s profile? If so, nice! Sync is doing the right thing in this context. I know already that Jerboa, the app from the main Lemmy devs, does this correctly.

But lemmy-ui, the interface you’ll see on most instances if you open it up in your web browser, that is not clickable, but the /u/username is clickable. It’s an obvious bug/shortcoming in lemmy-ui.

Hey, I just discovered this and discovered that you seem to be the developer of it.

It seems to be broken in at least two ways, and doing some very unexpected (at least insomuch as it attempts to replicate RES behaviour, and also IMO how I would expect it to behave) things with alternative keyboard layouts.

Broken: upvoting posts. If I have a post selected and press “a”, it takes me to the post in the poster’s instance, the same as clicking the little fediverse logo. If I press “z”, it upvotes. Voting works fine on comments with a = upvote, z = downvote.

“Disable arrow key scrolling” also seems to disable the use of arrow keys inside of a text box.

Keyboard layouts: in short, you seem to be using event.code, which detects which physical hardware key is depressed, instead of event.key, which detects the character that was typed. It means that if I want to move forward and backward, I have to press the key I would normally expect to type h/t.

To be clear: this is not wrong necessarily. It’s actually sort of my preferred way for video games to do things, so I can type the keys in the space that WASD are and move around, for example. But as my personal preference, and my experience of how most browser extensions do things (including RES), this is not how I’d prefer it to be done.

I use Dvorak, which by coincidence keeps a and m in the same places as QWERTY (as well as the number keys), but moves everything else around to be more efficient and ergonomic. It also has the benefit of putting j and k where QWERTY has c and v, allowing for convenient one-handed use of the “next” and “previous” comment buttons along with upvoting, while keeping the right hand on the mouse for scrolling. And I could easily reach to the numpad enter key with my mouse hand to collapse a section (side note: using event.code means only the main enter key works. Using event.key, both enter keys are Enter). QWERTY requires two hands on the keyboard.

Wait, I just realised that what I posted…isn’t an actual image. It ends in .svg, but it isn’t an svg file. This is, and it has no brackets:

To test how URL escaping works, here’s a different (non-image) link with brackets in it.

I had not. I had no idea that even existed, thanks!

Do they have a Lemmy community for feedback? It’s super buggy right now unfortunately, with “a” taking me to the post on the poster’s instance, instead of upvoting (or at least taking me to the post on my instance…), and with all keyboard shortcuts handling alternative keyboard layouts in what I would consider to be the wrong way (though this is possibly debatable/up to preference).

Yeah a lot of former Reddit apps that switched to Lemmy did a really lazy job of it and haven’t implemented all of the Lemmy text parsing syntax properly. Spoilers are one of the most common issues, but so are _subscript (including ~multiple word subscript~) and ^superscript (and ^multiple words of it^).

If your app doesn’t parse text correctly 2 years later, it may be time to consider switching.

New users should be able to join a “default instance” that is federated with all instances so people can window shop for the instance they prefer.

Almost by definition, any default instance is likely to get defederated by some other instances, if that default grows too large. Being default means it’s more likely to attract more people of all sorts. And some of those won’t get along with the federation policies of some stricter instances.

Personally when I want to share something to multiple communities, I deliberately space out the posts in time. It has the slight downside of potentially showing up for a person repeatedly for days, but I think this is outweighed by the upside of them not seeing the same post multiple times within a few minutes, which is really annoying. And it has the added advantage of being more likely to be seen by people who weren’t online at the right time to see it the first time.

Personally I only have alts on other instances because you can’t create Communities on instances other than your home one, and my home instance was not an appropriate one for the Communities I wanted to create.

I think I’ve uploaded images bigger than that, before.

What exactly is it you’re asking for, though? A change in user behaviour towards consolidation? Some new feature of the platform similar to multi-reddits? How exactly do you suggest that should work?