[email protected] and [email protected] for more

I’ve seen some dashboards around, is this what you’re looking for?

• https://github.com/gethomepage/homepage
• https://github.com/pawelmalak/flame

Definitely this one, the products are sometimes placed right next to legitimate ones and worse:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/marketplace-homeopathic-products-1.6254025

Hidden camera reveals some pharmacists recommend homeopathic products to treat kids’ cold and flu

I sometimes come across influencers pushing chrio “treatments” on pets or newborns, saying it makes them “breathe better” or be “more energetic”

It’s infuriating

Looks cool, I like the lists of games in the sidebar

Feel free to promote on [email protected] as well

I also came across this one, but I haven’t heard of this one before. I’ve heard Netguard mentioned in the past

Rethink: DNS + Firewall + VPN (Firewall apps, use WireGuard VPN, monitor network, block malware, change DNS.)

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.celzero.bravedns/

A lot of it might come down to individual tasks or personal preference.

Personally I liked Claude better than GTP3.5 for general queries, and I have yet to explore the other two

Hard to believe anyone makes apps for iOS, considering the hoops you have to jump through just to make it available to download.

This is something I’ve heard, and assume is the case, but I don’t know the specifics of. What kind of hoops are there?

Yea I’d prefer to wait until it’s on fdroid proper

Yea it’s really about what people have as the mental model for the platform they are on. It might take time for people to internalize what the network is doing.

Mastodon and Lemmy do mix as it is, but it could be better. Two big areas I’ve heard are

• Lemmy users need the ability to follow mastodon users (kbin has this I believe)

• Mastodon users have a hard time following Lemmy communities and seeing posts, because they end up getting a waterfall of every post/comment at once overwhelming their feeds

That’s a good point, even the platforms may change over time (either by name, or entire projects migrating).

People here say “lemmy” way too much when they really should consider the Fediverse as a whole.

Part of it is that we don’t federate that nicely to the rest of the fediverse yet. I expect that to change over time though

I know a few people that still stick around to moderate some places. If you have recommendations for what she switches to, please do share!

So far I’ve seen RedReader as an open source app for viewing, but it’s quite limited so I’m not sure what it would be like for moderation

I’m fuzzy on the details, but I do get reports from users on another instance as long as it’s “relevant” (ex. in one of our communities, one of our users)

Banning a foreign user on our instance will fix the problem for our instance, but they need to be banned on the home instance too in order to stop the spam from continuing

Somehow I never tried looking at Digg

It reminds me of the original “Your doctor doesn’t want you to know these 8 tricks for belly fat” ads, only that’s the actual content?

One thing I noticed the other day, while banning one such bot, is that the same network has been posting on Reddit as well.

Turns out the Reddit ones have been posting the spam for months, while the Lemmy ones get banned within hours.

Part of that is the lower volume of content here, but part of it is also the great people that take the time to report bad content ♥️

Welcome!

For this universe of instances to grow, but also to add a bit of personality to the platform! Do a bit of Reddit and add customization options for each community, like on the Minecraft Subreddit of old Reddit that I’ve always smiled at.

For sure! We don’t talk enough about how much customization there is for Lemmy. There is a wide variety of mobile apps that do things in different ways, and userscripts/userstyles to customize the desktop interface. A lot of instances are also running multiple frontends, each maintained by a different dev or team.

For example, our instance is running:

• Voyager interface at voyager.lemmy.ca
• Photon interface at photon.lemmy.ca
• Alexandrite interface at alex.lemmy.ca

Many possibilities, and I’m hoping we can see community customization too someday :)

Odd I can access it and I do see recent posts in the community. Maybe they are dealing with intermittent server issues

Maybe [email protected] ?

I’d start with ublock origin for browser extensions, and then add more things based on what you’re looking to do :)

You’ve already mentioned a few, but another might be to explore alternatives to the bad services and start a process to migrate over. That can look like anything from reducing your dependence on a service to moving over entirely.

ex. unfollow people and things you don’t care about

This browser extension “would allow Facebook users to automatically unfollow their friends, groups, and pages, and, in doing so, to effectively turn off their newsfeeds, which Facebook algorithmically sorts to drive user engagement,” the Knight Institute said in a statement.

Interesting, I’ve been doing that manually for a while now (not Facebook though, I haven’t opened that feed in years).

Here’s an article from 2021:

https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-unfollow-everything-cease-desist.html