Based on the feedback here, I’ve changed the PR to have Show be the default, and its been merged.

ShowForOthers is still an option, just not the default.

Nearly all large social media platforms have removed dislikes / downvotes. Reddit is the last one to have them, and it wouldn’t surprise me if they remove them also.

To elaborate on why I’d like to add this, from the original issue:

This is to enable a user being able to still show downvotes for other people’s posts/comments, but hide downvotes to their own content.

Adding this exception for your user alone, is to promote a positive experience, and for users to not have their mental well-being negatively affected by downvotes to their own content.

To mitigate the mental health negatives of downvotes, many instances already have downvotes entirely removed (meaning not only are downvotes not shown, but its impossible to downvote anything).

Disabling downvotes globally (not just for your user), has a lot of negatives, such as:

• Highly negative / low score comments seem to still be upvoted, and so encourage twitter-style rage-bait engagement (instead of just downvoting and moving on).
• These combative threads then keep getting bumped to the top of the active sort, making hostile comments seem the norm.
• You don’t know which comments are actually unpopular or not, so like twitter, you have to “check the ratio”, of replies to upvotes, to see if something is actually unpopular.

By making ShowForOthers default, we mitigate the downsides above, while also promoting positive mental health.

Just to clarify:

• This is not removing the ability to downvote.
• This is only about adding a setting to hide downvotes to your own content.
• Users can always re-enable showing downvotes to their own content at any time in their settings.

Okay I looked at it, and on mobile, if you’re not logged in, it always shows that join for free button regardless of your tiers. They want you to join patreon first.

I really hate patreon, and wish ppl would just use liberapay, as its more focused on developers anyway.

I’m not too good at patreon, but I’ll take a look at that one.

No probs o7

I personally wouldn’t be opposed switching off github once forgejo or another fully federated issue tracking system becomes mature, but the rest of the main contributors would have to agree also. Until that time, you’ll have to either use github, or get someone to make a PR for you.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy?tab=readme-ov-file#code-mirrors

The other ones aren’t for collaboration and issue-tracking, just other places to make the source available.

lemmy-ui’s default is to use the browser light/dark-mode setting. So you are likely looking at servers that have a custom theme without light/dark modes, or some hacked-on css.

I have a PR out for this now. Keep in mind that we’re usually too busy developing to keep up with a lot of these posts, so its always better to create an issue for feature requests / bugs.

You can create an issue for this on the joinlemmy-site repo.

No probs!

I can’t take any credit for that one. A few months ago I put out a request to various rust programming communities on lemmy, asking if anyone could help make a rust library to use the clearurls data.

@jendrikw did, so now we’re using their crate.

Nothing changed there. The image resolution changes have to do with thumbnails fetched from other sites or servers.

o7

Ok this is deployed now to lemmy.ml , let me know if you see any issues.

I deployed a fix for that now on lemmy.ml , should be good now.

8-core 16GB VPS, although we are one of the larger servers. Most smaller servers would probably be fine with 2-core 512mb.

Thx, its actually a back-end issue, so I’ll close in favor of it: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5173

Nah you’re fine, we just moved it to the disco.

Okay dad joke hour’s done for me, back to coding.