wow! that’s a concrete example of exactly what I mean. despicable behavior.

the strong-arm bullying by popular instances was easily the most annoying thing about the “Lemmy-verse”. The auto-defederate list that those instances controlled was an obvious example of power-mad witch-hunting people being in charge. I’ve even heard once or twice of smaller instances being forced by the popular instances to follow their rules and subscribe to the list if they don’t want to be added to the list themselves.

I share your sentiment that Sharkey has been much more relaxed and fun! Only a week after I started using it, I stopped caring if Lemmy Burggit would even come back online. The users are more playful and friendly, and there’s none of that circlejerk/hivemind moderation cult over there. it helps a lot that sharkey itself feels much better put together than lemmy does. so with that, I too say goodbye to Lemmy, and hello to Sharkey.

Burggit is dead, long live Burggit!

yeah the logged out page was a bit blank when I joined. I didn’t really know what it would look like until I made one.

Burggit has a Sharkey instance at https://dill.burggit.moe. It’s sort of “replacing” the Lemmy instance here. the fact that some users here seem unaware of this and instead think that the entirety of Burggit is shutting down, makes me think there should be some prominent banner or pinned post clarifying in the title.

You already have a Pawoo account, so it’s the same kind of application as Mastodon, with a timeline of posts. if does have a different UI though.

basically that place IS pretty similar to mastodon. it’s just a different fediverse micro-blogging application.

if you’re familiar with mastodon, there’s a UI mode that’s similar to mastodon. After making an account, on the left bar, click on “more” then “switch UI” then select “classic”. that makes Sharkey look a bit more like mastodon. If you have any trouble after that, I’m @[email protected] over there. I’m still learning some things myself, but I got all the basics down.

if you’re considering microblog instances like baraag and shota.house, what’s wrong with burggit’s sharkey instance? Do you not like Sharkey specifically? You can follow baraag creators from there if that’s what you wanted to do on baraag.

just the Sharkey instance (dill.burggit.moe) pretty much. I never cared too much that burrgit was specifically a link aggregator like reddit anyway, so this isn’t too big of a deal for me. once i got used to the way sharkey works, I actually preferred it anyway.

The Sharkey instance and it’s not even close. It has about 4 big issues I can think of at the moment, but other than that it’s great! I like the playfulness of the interface too, with all the animations and sound effects. it feels fun. I don’t know how Sharkey compares to other similar software that’s popular like Akkoma though.

G…Glesgorv? is that you?

Since it doesn’t have much “character” of its own, it goes well with many kinds of foods while also being generally agreeable to most people’s tastes. That’s probably the main reason it’s so popular.

I don’t care for it either, but it’s fine if you also add salt

✨Imagine a future where even your web browser has input lag✨

The default keyboard shortcut used to open the Activity Switcher has been changed to Meta+A, so that its prior shortcut Meta+Tab can be used some something else, which is coming soon…

a new overview or desktop grid like window management feature perhaps? They’ve been really on point lately so I’m excited to see what they have in mind.

They won’t like us. After all, there’s no conflict or outrage here for them to profit off of.

I personally feel that instead of having a standard for tags in the title, Lemmy should just have a “tags” field for posts. Then the tags can just be displayed in a consistent way everywhere, and maybe it can even be customizable.

Having “tags” in the title is really just a workaround for the lack of an actual tagging system. Solving that core problem would solve this one too, as least the formatting part of it.

trace.moe has frequently been useful to me. You really gotta mess with things to get it to recognize the screenshots though.

It makes me wish there was a softer form of blocking. A sort of “all veto” that doesn’t actually block everything from a community, but just stops it from showing up in “all”. There are communities that I’d rather not see in all, but might occasionally want to go to to check out, but blocking a community completely removes everything so the community’s just empty.

It feels a bit too much like YouTube and the removal of the dislike button to me.

That was a crucially different situation. On Youtube, users didn’t control communities or make the rules, so disliking, even though it had many issues, was the only way to discourage bad content. Things are different here. Individual users have much more control so downvotes aren’t needed like they were on Youtube. You don’t lose much except the downsides.

Downvotes seem to only spread negativity and discourage contribution. as others have said, you can just report posts if they’re breaking the rules, so I don’t really get the point of downvotes anyway. Better posts will rise above it even when downvotes are disabled.

no meanies allowed