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How does the Subscribed feed actually work? in c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
[–] invicticide@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Looking at it on my desktop right now, I'm seeing everything I'd expect, for both local and federated communities. Most typically lately, I'm browsing on my phone, but that's just hitting my instance directly via mobile Firefox, not using an app, so I can't imagine that would have meaningfully different results.

Sounds most likely that this is just a perceptual thing where I'm not consciously realizing that communities Y and Z are posting way more frequently than community X, making me feel like I'm "missing" posts from X that are then trivially found when I go to X directly.

I'll keep an eye out for this a bit more consciously for the next little while and see if that's what's actually going on.

How does the Subscribed feed actually work? in c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
[–] invicticide@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm sorting by New. My expectation was a linear chronological feed of posts across all subscribed instances. And yeah, I'm still missing some posts in that view.

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How does the Subscribed feed actually work? (programming.dev)
 

I've been using the Subscribed feed as my default view for a while. I understand that this is exclusively content from communities I've subscribed to, but it also seems to be be some subset of that content. If I go into an individual subscribed community, I almost always see a bunch of posts that I don't see on the Subscribed feed at all.

How does Subscribed choose which posts to show and how to order them?

Why do some login flows hide the password field until after you submit your username? in c/webdev@programming.dev
[–] invicticide@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I see this one happen occasionally, and it makes me marginally less grouchy.

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Why do some login flows hide the password field until after you submit your username? (programming.dev)
 

I see this more and more lately: go to log in to some site, and they only show the username field. Enter username, click Submit, then a password field appears. Enter password, click Submit again, and then we're logged in.

This makes using a password manager super annoying, because I have to trigger the autofill twice.

Is there some security-related reason more sites are doing this? Is it an anti-bot thing? I'm just really curious, because it seems so pointless on its face, but it seems to be spreading.

Lemmy is being gentrified in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] invicticide@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

I'm one of the newer transplants from Reddit, but for the last several years I've only been a lurker there, because I haven't felt like I really fit in with those communities and that culture well enough to fully engage.

Lemmy feels different, in similar fashion to how Mastodon felt so different from Twitter when I switched over there a year so back. I haven't looked back on Twitter, and I doubt I'll look back on Reddit. The water's way nicer over here, for me.

I do think it'll take a while for most of the disruptive newcomers to fully bounce off the Lemmy/Fediverse culture, but I also do think they will eventually bounce off it, as long as we all stick to our guns in terms of the culture we want to build, the rules with which we want to govern our communities and servers, and the social norms we want to tolerate.

There are just going to be 1973629092 tedious arguments about defederation between here and there. 🙄

Maybe a controversial opinion, but Lemmy is pretty great as a PWA in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] invicticide@programming.dev 18 points 1 year ago

I'm also finding it really effective. I only hate that backing out from a post is a crapshoot on whether it preserves my scroll position, resets to the top, or reloads the entire feed.