Probably at the point they went to the app store, searched TikTok, and clicked “install”.

I read the PR. It seems more like a hacky bandaid rather than addressing the actual issue. But I digress.

It’s also possible I misunderstood where/how the limit was being applied. My understanding was that it was limiting the response to 50 per depth (50 seems to be the arbitrary limit for most of the API’s list endpoints). What I really don’t want to do is have to paginate the request for the top level comments.

e.g. if a post has 100 comments, and say, 60 of them are top-level, I much prefer to be able to get all 60 in one go. Depending on the total number of comments provided in the getPost call, I dynamically set max_depth higher (3-5) or lower (as low as 1) and fill in the deeper comments manually with a “show more” button. The exception is if linking directly to a comment where it uses the path to calculate the exact depth to fetch.

finding one with a chain of over 50 in a row is even more rare. Such a thread would be clunky to display in the main comment tree anyways

I’m working around that without pagination, but it’s a low priority fix since Patrick’s Law come into play. It’s like Godwin’s Law except it says that once a comment thread gets deeper than 9, it’s a slapfight that’s best avoided.

I’ve got a laundry list of reasons, but suffice it to say that pretty much every third party client I’ve ever used has been miles ahead in UX and polish.

One example is that if the API throws any error response and lands you on an “Error” page (post removed, user deleted, etc), the whole UI is stuck there until you refresh the whole page (e.g clicking “back” updates the URL to your previous page, but you’re still seeing the error).

Reduce maximum comment depth to 50 by @nutomic #5009

Goddamnit. I fucking hate paginating comments and would rather just fetch all the top level ones and control the depth based on the number of total comments. I also hate that they see the API through the lens of Lemmy-UI (IMO the worst way to interact with Lemmy).

Yeah, definitely.

I hope @willya@lemmyf.uk sticks around on another instance.

Appreciate them! They really do not get paid enough to try as hard as they do.

I mean, you can (and should) pay attention to politics IRL to stay informed and make informed choices. But blocking out politics on social media, though, is quite understandable and often necessary for sanity.

I never meme about individual users; that’s just not my style.

It’s merely an illustration of a trend I notice every so often.

I wasn’t really looking at the MAU stats when I made this; it just felt like it’s been more actively lately (both good and bad). Unfortunate the numbers are actually trending downward.

For one thing, people might be turning away due to the upcoming USA election

Possibly. I’ve gone into self-imposed social media blackouts during election season many a time. Sometimes you just need a break.

Whenever I go looking for examples of such I usually find it in 0-60 seconds, by going to Lemmy.ml and browsing by Local … people are not willing to put up with such, and seem to be leaving us

Yeah. I have felt for a while that ml being the official or at least de facto flagship instance is doing more harm than good. I’m not going to tell them how to run their instance, but I am sad and frustrated that it seems to turn so many people away under the impression the whole fediverse is like that.

I’m cool with Fedizens 😀.

I think I was on Reddit for 12 (?), but I wasn’t nearly as active there as I am here.

Happens to the best of us.

As a Reddit refugee myself,I can’t disagree with that. But I will clarify that there’s generally two kinds of Reddit Refugees, though:

• The kind that got fed up with Reddit and wants to be part of something better
• The people who were banned from Reddit and think this is some kind of safe haven to continue acting on their worst impulses that got them banned elsewhere.

The meme is largely referencing the latter.

You succeeded :)

Might also fit in !microblogmemes@lemmy.world

Congrats. This is my last remaining form of social media, but once I got my feed and block lists curated, it’s been pretty great here.

That’s a question for the admins there, but HC is the spiritual successor of, and ran by the same team as, ExplodingHeads. EH was frequently defederated for homophobia, transphobia, bigotry, racism, conspiracy, brigading, hate speech, and general toxicity.

I’m not sure if they’ve cleaned up their act since rebranding, but maybe they figured they’d start out with just the big instances since they were frequently de-federated before?

Context:

• https://hilariouschaos.com/comment/9345
• https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/exploding-heads.com
• https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/hilariouschaos.com

I think you just answered your own question. If ponder.cat isn’t on their white list, content won’t federate.

Agree. If you’re not interested in something, just block the community/curate your feed and don’t spam downvotes. It’s like intentionally showing up somewhere you don’t want to be just to “boooo” everything.

Steps in Tesseract:

1. Click the community name in the post to bring up the community profile modal.

2. Click “Block Community”

3. You and the people minding their own business with their own interests can now both be happy.

Bonus: This works from the feed and from the post. If you’re in the feed when you block a community, any other posts to that community will magically disappear.

Edit: Updated the images so OP didn’t think I was throwing shade (I wasn’t)

They simply filter communities from those instances, and not much else. It doesn’t even hide user interactions from those instances.

Yep. “Block instance” is basically “block all communities on this instance”. Its API-level behavior leaves a lot to be desired.

Some UIs will filter users from blocked instances (posts and comments). I know Tesseract does, and I think maybe Boost does?

Yep, exactly.

When I notice that ahead, I always slow down a bit to put some good distance between it and myself.