I’m trying to selfhost some Lemmy communities just for fun :)

Buddhist, researcher, FOSS, Linux, selfhosting enthusiast, plantbased, anarchism and MLM interested.

Trying to be nice. I really dislike the Reddit style aggressive comments. If you are rude I will block and ban you.

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Cake day: January 4th, 2025

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  • When you “private mention” someone, only you and they can see the post. And they can reply with a “private mention” of their own. But if anyone in that “private” thread accidentally mentions any other Mastodon account by name, that is itself considered a “private mention”, and that person is invited into the thread. It is an absolutely insane UI design that makes it extremely easy to share private conversations with exactly the people you don’t want reading them.

    This is the best real critique


  • This problem became abundantly clear after setting up my solar bots on the mas.to instance: the mastodon.social instance (where I keep my personal account) had expressed no interest in any of these accounts, so none of their posts were available to my personal account. Crucially, the posts did not exist even if I visited the profile page of the account: even after weeks of daily posts, the profile page displayed by mastodon.social claimed the account had never posted, and the posts would only begin appearing after someone on mastodon.social began following the account. (And even then, for reasons far trickier to debug, some posts would never propagate to instances where they did have followers. The ActivityPub architecture and protocol are just flaky.)

    Feels like half their argument is because no one wants their crappy bots