Does this build have the vote traffic updates mentioned in this thread or will that come in a later/bigger release?

As always thank you all for the hard work that goes into building and maintaining this project. 💚

The rooms we had issues with were public rooms that were discoverable via Matrix, with a couple of links on the web to direct people to them. The links to the rooms still exist in the same places, but ever since converting them to XMPP links rather than Matrix ones the traffickers have disappeared. I couldn’t tell you if that’s because XMPP is less popular with that crowd or if the tools they’re using to discover and spam them don’t work on XMPP. Either way it was a welcome change.

In my experience XMPP is easy to set up, lighter on resources, and the clients tend to work well across multiple platforms. We have small private and public groups using it daily with zero complaints.

Matrix tends to be more involved in setting up, and our group ran into issues where some clients weren’t working as smoothly or reliably as we needed for a primary communication platform. We also had a huge problem with traffickers of all sorts joining our rooms to spam their telegram links or CSAM. That hasn’t been a problem after more than a year on XMPP.

Nasty?

This reply to another thread highlights some interesting things in the code:

https://lemmy.ml/comment/23619001

This reply to another thread highlights some interesting things in the code:

https://lemmy.ml/comment/23619001

I understand your frustration! Unfortunately I don’t have an easy answer.

The culture on Lemmy can cause a fair bit of confusion at first. We have this phenomenon where people migrate here and want to have all the niche communities that existed where they came from without the users required to maintain those places. As a result we have a lot of communities with little to no interaction because it’s usually just one or two people contributing. The situation you’re describing is a pretty common example of this.

If you’re looking for existing communities you may have better luck finding them on Lemmyverse. If you still don’t find the type of place you’re looking for, you might consider creating a community for the more generalized content you want to share. If that isn’t something you feel comfortable taking on alone, maybe others would be willing to help you run it and keep things active. Lemmy is full of people looking for places to participate!

It wasn’t an endorsement of their policies, just a place that the videos you asked about have been popping up.

!crazyfuckingvideos@lemmy.world

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I’m smoking weed about it.

Damn I almost sent you your own meme lmfao

I want my posts to be accesable

If you mean you want to move the entire account to somewhere else as if it started there, you can’t. If you were to create an account on a new instance and imported your old profile data you’d save yourself the time of resubscribing to communities etc but your post history would be brand new again. You can have accounts/alts on multiple instances though and people often do. Some people keep them as backups, some swap accounts multiple times a day for whatever reason.

Using an alternative frontend is different. You login using the same credentials you already have on that instance. All that changes is the UI you’re using, everything on the backend is still the same and you are still the same person to the rest of the Fediverse.

1. Is it that some servers have better UI ?

Some offer multiple frontends so the look changes but the underlying server/content is the same. You can see some examples of them here:

https://old.crazypeople.online/
https://voyager.crazypeople.online/
https://alexandrite.crazypeople.online/
https://photon.crazypeople.online/

There are also other platforms like PieFed that interact with Lemmy pretty much seamlessly.

2. How do I migrate?

You don’t necessarily have to migrate, you can just make a new account on any other server and import your profile settings like subscriptions/blocks/etc.

3. Also, is it possible there are isolated federated networks of leemy (other activity protocol)?

Any instance can defederate from any of the others for any reason. While there are probably stand alone instances that don’t federate at all, most of them have chosen blacklist or whitelist federation to wall off the content they don’t want on their servers. Some of them block more aggressively and for different reasons, but there are so many at this point there’s almost certainly one that would be a good fit for you if you aren’t happy where you’re at.

VPN wouldn’t cause it to flag you as a bot, that’s a profile setting you control yourself. @cypherpunks@lemmy.ml detailed how you can change it in comment below.

@tdTrX@lemmy.ml your account is (accidentally?) flagged as a bot so your posts won’t be seen by anyone who has disabled bot posts. You might want to check your account settings.

The update was quick and easy. Thank you to the entire team of developers and donors for continuing to support this project. 💚

Trust/Honesty

You can’t build anything lasting on lies.

Symfonium is ridiculously customizable and well worth the one time cost IMO, but like you said it requires purchase and through the Play store.

DSub is on Fdroid and works well though it lacks many of the customization options that Symfonium has. It’s kind of like a mobile mode of the default Navidrome webUI.

Those are the two I keep installed at all times because I use them for different things. The other options for Android either had weird quirks I didn’t like or didn’t offer functionality I needed.

If you’re using the app, uninstall it. Delete your bookmarks, etc. Make it more than an idle thought to be on the site.

Use the time you would normally spend doomscrolling on reddit to do something productive on Lemmy. Look for new communities to join, reply to posts you would normally just upvote, post something to a community that could use a boost, etc. The place is far from empty but more interaction really helps to drive growth and build friendships.

See you around mate. 💚