• Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      In all seriousness, apps and frontends need to implement countermeasures so that you can turn off image previews as needed

    • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
      0·
      1 year ago

      With its current implementation, that feature has a lot of downsides as well.

      If you wanted, you could embed tracking pixels all over Lemmy and apps and browsers will happily report who’s reading your posts.

      • morrowind@lemmy.ml
        0·
        1 year ago

        You used to be able to embed arbitrary html in comments, which was awesome and terrifying

        • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
          0·
          1 year ago

          The trick is that to embed images in Lemmy, you’re basically hot linking them. That means any kind of tracking your average web server can do, is possible through Lemmy’s image embedding feature.

          I’ve explicitly disabled any kind of logging for the proof of concept above (it’s generated in the fly by the server, not cached on my end, no IP logs or anything) but it’s not hard for a malicious user to abuse this. It basically takes your IP address, looks up an estimated town based on some free geoip database you can download, and renders that as text inside an image.

          This could be solved by rewriting comments to force image URLs to be loaded through your home server, but I don’t know if anyone has started work on that yet.

          • Zonen-RANSLITE@feddit.de
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            1 year ago

            It basically takes your IP address, looks up an estimated town based on some free geoip database you can download, and renders that as text inside an image.

            OK, less magic than expected.

    • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
      0·
      1 year ago

      You can!

      … if you host your own instance, or use a client that supports instance blocking, of course.

      Instance blocking will be available in Lemmy 0.19, which is already running on some Lemmy instances. The update contains various breaking changes, so not every instance may choose to update immediately (so people using/devs of apps and alternative frontends have time to update), but the work has been done already. The release candidate just needed a bunch of stability testing.

  • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee
    0·
    1 year ago

    It’s pretty obvious people aren’t talking about apis that must be paid for that are ridiculously restrictively expensive

  • PumpkinDrama@reddthat.comOP
    0·
    1 year ago

    I really like being able to edit the post title and the 6 hour top sort. Although I would like 3 or 4 hours even better.

    • Vilian@lemmy.ca
      0·
      1 year ago

      you can ask for this feature directly to the dev, that what i prefer it to reddit

  • ZeroCool@feddit.chEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Third party clients. Specifically alternate web UI’s like Alexandrite because if I’m being honest here, I think the comment nesting in Lemmy’s offical web UI lacks distinction which makes following conversations frustrating. Without Alexandrite I’d most likely be a mobile app (Voyager) user only.

  • Ziggurat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    • Language, you can filter content by language you speak

    • Edit title, If with my broken english and autocorrect, I write down does anybody now about a boardgame for trees ? I can do a ninja edit without deleting the post

    • Interaction with Mastodon (and the rest of the fedi), seriously, imagine being able to answer to a tweet from reddit, with Lemmy you can answer to a toot

    • SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      And the ability to turn off scores entirely! I run it that way most of the time. A post can have thousands of up/down votes but I can’t tell and it keeps it from infuencing how I’ll vote.

      It was a feature I wanted to experiment with on reddit but couldn’t

    • ZeroCool@feddit.chEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      I still remember when reddit disabled that. It was a useful data point, especially in hobby communities or other places where it can be difficult for newbies to judge the quality of advice/answers they’re receiving so I was thrilled to see it here on Lemmy. Going by upvotes alone is not always showing you an accurate picture of a community’s reaction to a comment.

      • SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip
        0·
        1 year ago

        It’s why I’m still furious about YouTube removing the dislike count. That single decision has probably led to lots more people getting scammed–and YouTube not getting my premium dollars I would’ve otherwise gave.

  • livus@kbin.social
    0·
    1 year ago

    • Federation

    • Decentralized control

    • Viewable moderation logs

    • Absence of CCP army, Hasbara trolls, Russian trolls, corporate shills, etc

    • Editable titles

    • Hashtags

    • Third party apps (on Lemmys)

    • Publicly shareable/subscribeable multi-communities (on Kbin)

    • Automatically remove inactive mods (Kbin)

    • Leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Yep. This most basic aspect of Lemmy/KBin/MBin is its biggest advantage over Reddit. The fact that no one person, or company/organisation can ever own or control the entirety of the threadiverse is, to me, a huge factor in why I prefer it.

      All centralised web based software like reddit is susceptible to exactly the kind of slow death Space Karen is inflicting on Twitter. Federation and decentralisation means that can never happen in the threadiverse.

  • paradiso@lemm.ee
    0·
    1 year ago

    The community is more mature, less stupid pun chains (pretty sure those are mostly bots at this point), and less presence of interest groups (nefarious or not).

    • Scrollone@feddit.it
      0·
      1 year ago

      Summer is never endless, I wonder when those things will arrive in the Fediverse and ruin everything