I know the obvious things like federation and fediverse, but do we say upvote/downvote, updoot, karma? I hate to bring up the software that must not be named, but I don’t know what else to call things.
You subscribe to communities, which are hosted on different servers. Upvotes and downvotes are what they are. AFAIK there is no karma counting here.
Some apps/front ends/instances track upvote/downvote totals. Haven’t run into any automated filters based on total karma yet, though.
Also worth mentioning that instance admins and some moderators can see specific users’ upvotes and downvotes.
There’s also a public mod log where instances display their moderator actions taken against whom for what reasons. Doesn’t quite stop moderator abuse but it makes it public.
Any kbin user can see everyone who upvoted something. They used to be able to see all of the downvotes as well, but that was disabled with most kbin instances…
As far as I know, all you need to do is find a kbin instance that allows their users to see both upvotes and downvotes (or set up an instance yourself).
It’s best to treat your votes here as public if you’re coming from Reddit where you normally expect this to be hidden.
Lemmy once computed a total score internally, but this was removed in the later versions. There is no such thing as overall user karma or score unless an admin or other software decides to try to compute one. The platform itself doesn’t care.
Here are some examples of “other software” that does compute this.
Mbin still reports the raw reputation score, e.g. https://fedia.io/u/@henfredemars@infosec.pub
Piefed instead reports an attitude percentage, e.g. https://piefed.social/u/henfredemars@infosec.pub
Both do so without requiring an account.
- Community - the equivalent of a subreddit. Some people shorten it to “comm”.
- Instance or server - a site using Lemmy or Mbin or PieFed, with multiple communities in it. For example lemmy.world and mander.xyz are instances.
- Upvote, downvote - the same as in Reddit.
- karma - it would be the same as in Reddit, except that the main software (Lemmy) doesn’t have it.
- Lemming - a Lemmy user
- Defed - often used as a verb. Because “defederate” is too long.
I haven’t seen lemming in like a year when reddit users (including me) were moving over and some people apparently needed a replacement for redditor.
I don’t remember ever seeing defed in place of defederate or comm in place of community, but maybe I just missed out on that.
People need buzzwords to feel like they belong to a group. We are just a bunch of nerds who already know that. It’s a free spirit community as long as you behave like a human. You can try to establish some new terminology, but don’t come up with the old reddit stuff, people will make fun of you.
I proposed we say cheers or just 🍻 instead of cake day for activitypub- i like to think of everyone just popping into a pub and chatting about stuff.
People need buzzwords to feel like they belong to a group.
That is so fetch!
beans, opossums, gul dukat bad, ummm, lemmings?
For things such as how to make a proper link that does not take people away from their instance, see !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca.
That’s super old info. That was fixed in like the first update after the exodus.
You’ve been able to just write the name in !community@instan.ce format and it will work ever since.
And doing so is better because there’re a bunch of cases where using a hyperlink won’t work.
I’ve had situations where that doesn’t work for me, or like where I will start typing and it won’t expand quite properly - e.g. typing !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca expands not to !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca but like to !newtolemmy!newtolemmy@lemmy.ca. The latter repeatedly happened to me on a desktop Chrome. Also if you user-block an instance, then the name expansion process no longer works.
There are actually two types of expansions - one done after you post, another while you are still writing. Neither of which I have ever seen written up in any guide anywhere, other than release notes from as you say like a year ago. Similarly I have not seen guides to cross-posting, in e.g. the Getting started guide.
Edit: oh, and this is the first I am hearing that the former expanded links won’t work - do you know when that happens? Maybe apps, or perhaps non-Lemmy Fediverse Mbin or PieFed? This is the first I am hearing of this iirc.
Finding out how things work on Lemmy, for those of us who do not use Arch btw, is a terrible process for new users. I was thinking, it sure would be nice if there was not just a single post here and there such as Lemmy.ml’s What is Lemmy.ml (that is the exact link that appears in their sidebar though), but an entire community somewhere where such guidance could be posted. If not this one, then somewhere else - but this is the only one like that that I have seen.
Edit: if you know more about when links won’t work, perhaps you can post the thought in that community?
Expanded?
No. You literally just type the name of the community. Plaintext. No extra steps of any kind.
Look at that first community mention you wrote, it turned into a link.
Both the webUI and basically every client will then make it clickable in a suitable way for each user on whatever instance. The post itself is still just plaintext, the lemmy server doesn’t change anything to add a link, the clients do.
If you use a hyperlink, or let the webUI autocomplete it into a hyperlink (which is what I think you mean by, “expanding” it), it wont be a relative link anymore. It’s then a “normal” markdown hyperlink. Which technically wont work right as-is unless you edit it to be relative, which breaks in other situations.
Using relative markdown links was always a stopgap, and is no longer necessary.
But then absolute links are being fixed, as many clients will now open absolute links, as if they were relative.
