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the "ignore all previous instructions" comments.
the first time i read it, i thought it was funny. the second time, less so. the hundreth time? yeah. i dont know if people realize it, but if you use this comment, it actually makes you look like a moron. Because all your opponent has to do to achieve that is just not following your instructions. besides: ive never seen this used against somebody who might actually be a bot, its always just somebody with different opinions.
It's gotta be more user-friendly to regular non-tech peoples, and it has to be explained/pitched to people in a more simplified way. Also there really should be an official mobile app.
Jerboa is maintained by Lemmy devs.
Since they started blocking VPN traffic I would love it if people stopped hosting images on imgur.
It seems I often don't get stuff in my inbox that should be there. Like direct replies. But honestly, I'd also like to get notifications for sibling posts or replies to replies and so on. I just want to subscribe to that discussion.
Another thing is that sometimes eternity forgets where I was doom scrolling, and it takes me forever to get back to that point. I probably just clicked away from the feed or closed all my apps.
Edit: Maybe with a bell button. It's simple and gives control and it's okay to not use it. In the settings you can say also enable the bell when you like sum. Afaik activity pub supports granular subscribing.
Ban obvious actors Mods stop being little bitches
That would clean things up nicely
The Block function has been instrumental to my enjoyment of Lemmy. There's only a handful of bad actors and they're obvious when checking post history. There was even one user who was a bad actor on Reddit with literal millions of Karma who moved to Lemmy and made the front page daily with bad faith BS.