several people have confirmed it… I haven’t seen them explain how exactly, but they seem convinced it is causing crashes so they blocked it. Lemmy is practically in the realm of voodoo PostgreSQL at this point. Since April or May it’s been scaling very poorly as data gets added.

Why is there a lack of gifs/videos on Lemmy?

Lemmy’s internal data performance is so horribly slow and crash-causing that I think the last thing they want is even more popular data.

Video is simply the most superior type of media there is, and I think that not having easy access to it on Lemmy is hurting it.

Video is more data, popularity is more data. For whatever reason, at every turn, I’ve seen developers turn away from scaling options like Memcache, Redis, or just abandoning ORM data management and rewriting the data interfaces by hand…

since the sites on which the videos are hosted can track you.

That’s already true for images that are hot linked routinely, so I don’t think video really changes it.

I’ve been baffled since June why data and fixing lemmy’s data coding hasn’t been front and center. It’s pretty wild to witness so many come to Lemmy and then turn away… Elon Musk has been flocking people, Reddit, etc. It’s as if the project wants to make code that won’t work on any data. It’s baffeling.

This basically shuts my idea down

it’s not very difficult to modify the code for something like this… and closing off registration wont’ let anyone else login and create new content form your istance.

Personally the load on the major servers by having one more instance that subscribes to everything is why I think people should back off from creating more than the 1500 instances Lemmy network already has. Delivery of every single vote, comment, post 24 hours a day just so one person can read content for an hour or two a day.

That makes sense for email systems where all that content doesn’t have to be sent, but for Lemmy it’s a huge amount of overhead.

ok, I’m going to delete this post. People actually aren’t discussing privacy and are just debating if they think Lemmy needs Multi-Reddit. And I just want to get the code finished. I am probably moving ahead on the code with ZERO sharing of any existing data.

But it should definitely be off by default and have a clear warning when you try to enable it.

I was afraid people would say that. The easier way is to just not touch it at all, as adding new code to opt in/opt out is more Rust code programming that is in rare supply with developers.

The easiest solution is to avoid it and not introduce sharing of personal communities at all. Which was what I was afraid this discussion would yield. So we start fresh with empty MultiPass lists and build them up from scratch.]

the amount of low-effort drive by comments and off-topic posts communities gets just because they are similarly named is bad enough as it is.

which is why I actually want it.

I think a well-cultivated list of quality communities that people share is a means to escape the heavy amount of noise that grew out of the explosion in the number of low-effort barely-any-moderation instances.

Another way to look at this feature is really simple: multiple subscribe lists, the ability to organize what you subscribe to into your cultivated groups. I don’t see why anyone thinks a limitation of having only one community list per login is beneficial in organizing the duplicate choices all over the place.

why does a multi-reddit need multiple instances to collaborate to create the feed?

by “create the feed”, I assume you mean “provide posts” when API call post/list is called?

content is replicated in all federated instances. You only need to use the local copy and merge all the communities of the multi-reddit.

Yes, that is what MultiPass would do, query the local PostgreSQL database. Right now Lemmy only allows this for a single Subscribe/Follow list per user… you have to create 3 different logins if you want 3 different lists of communities.

Multi-reddits as they exist on Reddit itself could be implemented entirely client-side, the server side stuff just syncs the behavior of multiple client apps.

Can you explain how? As the only way I can see this is if you did 50 different API requests for all 50 communities, merged them, and then sorted them again by the desired order.

Why does the concept of a multi-reddit need to extend outside of the user’s instance?

it doesn’t need to. But why would you not want it when communities are multi-instance?

perhaps I made a mistake introducing the privacy concern first. As now the whole topic seems to negate the very reason so many people have requested MultiReddit on Lemmy. The privacy issue isn’t even essential, I just wanted to have a discussion about it as a general topic. I’m already building the code so that it can be done entirely without anyone sharing their personal subscribed list.

report a bug to lemmy about the broken quoting.

I have, weeks ago.

Consider posting to the official rust playground and creating a shared link.

I did share a link to GitHub, is that not good enough or something?

Personally I think the issue is more that there is blind loyalty to team sports in USA culture, and no matter how many bad things are documented about a specific person (Donald Trump, Richard Nixon)… people are loyal to the image of that person, the brand and logo. People are raised in the USA to be inundated with breakfast cereal and toy company logo/brand recognition. It’s a faith system. Breakfast cereals and fast-food “Happy plates” that fund a lot of children’s TV are incredibly unhealthy and profit machines - and parents think this is psychologically healthy.

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be. -Marshall McLuhan

Better file a bug about that

Bug has been open for weeks. Doesn’t seem to be a priority to undo the added HTML sanitation problems.

The code I pasted here on Lemmy is also on GitHub comment without being munged: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3865#issuecomment-1683324467

It’s still mostly like the original function it is copied from, just some of the logic has been successfully stripped out. But it’s probably worth looking at the bigger picture of just how much of the Rust conditional logic goes into building this SQL statement.

I’ll say this: a lot of discussion seems to take place on Matrix chat that doesn’t make it into GitHub code comments as to why specific changes are made.

It used to be you could see the actual content of deleted comments and it was at the discretion of the client to show or not show them. The newcomers from Reddit (June) seemed to not like that people could read content of deleted comments, so I think changes were made for that reason.

With federation, it really isn’t reasonable to expect content copies to all be deleted. So it’s a complex issue.

With 0.18.2, 0.18.3 there were changes in the behavior of comment sorting and delete / remove behavior. It is entirely possible that behavior changed, intentional or otherwise.

There is a !test@lemmy.ml community where you could create comments, do some screen shots before and after delete.

An Instance is just another word for ‘server’ in lemmy terminology. HDTV is a classic form of media that doesn’t involve TCP/IP to watch films and other video content.

If everyone was spread out onto different instances

Each instance with an owner/operator making rules… that the average social media user walks in, orders a drink, and starts smoking without any concern that neither one may be allowed. People can be loyal to their media outlets even when it is beyond obvious they are bad. People raised on storybooks that endorse bad behaviors and values, HDTV networks, and social media too. Audience desire to “react comment” to images and not actually read what others have commented - nor learn about the venue operators and reasons for rules is pretty much the baseline experience in 2023.

When it comes to media attraction, what they call themselves (labels) don’t really matter that much. It’s the praise of strong men, authority, that crosses all mythological media systems. Be it bowing down to a burning bush story, Fox News, or Kremlin.

Keep in mind that you’re going to be retrieving and storing a huge amount of data running these scripts

And you are adding to the overload of lemmy.world, beehaw, lemmy.ml, etc who have all the popular content communities. Federation has a lot of overhead, as does having to distribute a community one vote at a time to 500 subscribed servers.

@Prefix@lemm.ee - maybe pin this for a while?

The real war is hate media memes and messages that trickle down to those obedient to voices from the clouds, electric voices these days. In the old days, books that said burning bushes gave out signals.