Ask Lemmy

Do you have a better alternative, you lemming?

I haven't seen lemming in like a year when reddit users (including me) were moving over and some people apparently needed a replacement for redditor.

I don't remember ever seeing defed in place of defederate or comm in place of community, but maybe I just missed out on that.

I don't, but I've seen plenty people saying it. Just like "defed", Snooggums didn't see it but I did.

That shit is dingo!

Omg, you can't just ask people why they're white.

Any kbin user can see everyone who upvoted something. They used to be able to see all of the downvotes as well, but that was disabled with most kbin instances...

As far as I know, all you need to do is find a kbin instance that allows their users to see both upvotes and downvotes (or set up an instance yourself).

It's best to treat your votes here as public if you're coming from Reddit where you normally expect this to be hidden.

Here are some examples of "other software" that does compute this.

Mbin still reports the raw reputation score, e.g. https://fedia.io/u/@[email protected]

Piefed instead reports an attitude percentage, e.g. https://piefed.social/u/[email protected]

Both do so without requiring an account.

I'd like to add to their comment. A lot of people are coming from very argumentative or abrasive communities, and sometimes their initial messaging will show that. If someone comes off way too hot headed try not to assume that they're going to end up being a troll. They might just be riled up. I've had pretty good success in asking clarifying questions to get people to explain their view rather than just come in swinging.

I just read about the Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon

Let's just say you did a good job picking world as your instance

A reasonable and measured response

That pretty much is the app's fault. I encountered that with some third party apps. Jerboa has never done that.

I've had situations where that doesn't work for me, or like where I will start typing and it won't expand quite properly - e.g. typing [email protected] expands not to [email protected] but like to !newtolemmy[email protected]. The latter repeatedly happened to me on a desktop Chrome. Also if you user-block an instance, then the name expansion process no longer works.

There are actually two types of expansions - one done after you post, another while you are still writing. Neither of which I have ever seen written up in any guide anywhere, other than release notes from as you say like a year ago. Similarly I have not seen guides to cross-posting, in e.g. the Getting started guide.

Edit: oh, and this is the first I am hearing that the former expanded links won't work - do you know when that happens? Maybe apps, or perhaps non-Lemmy Fediverse Mbin or PieFed? This is the first I am hearing of this iirc.

Finding out how things work on Lemmy, for those of us who do not use Arch btw, is a terrible process for new users. I was thinking, it sure would be nice if there was not just a single post here and there such as Lemmy.ml's What is Lemmy.ml (that is the exact link that appears in their sidebar though), but an entire community somewhere where such guidance could be posted. If not this one, then somewhere else - but this is the only one like that that I have seen.

Edit: if you know more about when links won't work, perhaps you can post the thought in that community?