mlmym
Mastodon
mlmym | Mastodon | |
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15 | 1,226 | |
240 | 46,080 | |
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8.7 | 10.0 | |
6 days ago | 1 day ago | |
Go | Ruby | |
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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mlmym
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You Win or You Learn
For now.
Reddit's currently working on a UI/UX update for moderators on new.reddit (or newnew reddit as I like to call it since it's technically a second redesign) with an ETA of early 2024 [1]. According to them last year, 4% of users use old.reddit but carry out 60% of all moderating actions [2].
My guess is once that rolls out, they'll be ready to retire old.reddit.
The UI will live on though. There's mlmym [3] that allows you to use the interface on Lemmy. The instance of Lemmy I use has it on https://old.lemmy.world
[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/15rxkbn/announcing...
[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/v3frc1/what_were_wo...
[3] https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym
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[PSA] The mlmym.org (old reddit layout for Lemmy) demo site now redirects to a list of Lemmy instances running mlmym.
There have been a number of posts here previously pointing out the mlmym github project and the associated mlmym.org demo site. Unfortunately many people seemed to gloss over the fact that the latter was a demo site, i.e. not meant to be permanent. As of this morning it appears the demo has run its course, and the site now redirects to a github project file listing several Lemmy instances that are running mlmym themselves. Most of these are "single instance" and only work for the Lemmy instance that hosts them, e.g. old.lemmy.sdf.org works for the lemmy.sdf.org instance and only that instance. If you're on one of those instances then your best bet is to use their built-in version of mlmym.
- Sync for Lemmy
- Mlmym: Old Reddit styled alternative front end to lemmy
- Mlmym โ An alternate front end for Lemmy that looks like Old Reddit
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Teddit Is Shutting Down
The funny thing about the "good" ways of accessing reddit have already been "ported" to lemmy.
- https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym - old.reddit.com styled client for lemmy
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Update 1: We're building a transparent and user-involved alternative
All Lemmy instances "support" this interface. It's just that lemmyonline is hosting a fork of Mlmym.
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Aside from the obvious, can anyone give me a rundown of any of the other platforms that are mostly similar to Reddit, and worth considering? Not so worried about the user counts, but just the overall look/feel. Also if there's any interesting drama, I'm here for the tea
It works with any other instance, if anyone's wondering. Go to https://mlmym.org/, type the name of your instance and it'll work a treat.
- Lemmy has reached 1 million posts
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A Curated List of Lemmy Apps
A familiar Reddit-like desktop experience for lemmy (Github, Web App).
Mastodon
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Ask HN: What do you think about a subscription based social media?
Oh, TIL about https://mastodon.social/ (https://joinmastodon.org/)
Looks like what you describe, doesn't it?
> Social networking that's not for sale.
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Alt Text box can't fit one screenshot of text
Interestingly there is some discussion for Mastodon with people asking the limit to be smaller, which raises the question as to the purpose of alt text, and how to properly handle larger text lengths in screen reader programs.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/12268
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Open source at Fastly is getting opener
Through the Fast Forward program, we give free services and support to open source projects and the nonprofits that support them. We support many of the worldโs top programming languages (like Python, Rust, Ruby, and the wonderful Scratch), foundational technologies (cURL, the Linux kernel, Kubernetes, OpenStreetMap), and projects that make the internet better and more fun for everyone (Inkscape, Mastodon, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Terms of Service; Didnโt Read).
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Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters
Mastodon DMs have absolutely no privacy: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18079
For a decentralized protocol doing things right is much more important than doing things fast, it is very difficult (and in a lot of cases impossible) to break backwards compatibility.
- External OpenID Connect Account Takeover by Email Change
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Ask HN: Best practice for posting links to large Mastodon threads?
Postmortem on what happened here: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=39305884
The v1 API of Mastodon limits the size of the tree that it will expand for users who are not logged into the server: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/controllers/api/v1/statuses_controller.rb . I am guessing that this or some similar limit applies to threads being returned to unauthenticated users of the web UI. It just arbitrarily stops expanding the replies at some point, including the main thread from the OP.
If a thread is truncated, users expect it to expand automatically and autoscroll when you hit the bottom. In my desktop browser, that does not occur, and there is no indication that there is more to see. This is the situation of the web interface as of Mastodon version 4.2.5.
The issue is very sensitive to observer conditions. If you are logged into the server, the behavior is different. If you use a Mastodon app instead of the web, the behavior might be different. As the tree expands, the cutoffs become different. If you look at the thread on a different Mastodon server, the tree is different because every server has its own view of the Fediverse.
HN needs a best practice for linking to Mastodon threads in a way that provides a consistent experience to HN readers. The average Mastodon server would be crushed by hundreds of HN readers grabbing the entirety of a huge thread all at once, so this might involve some thread-unroll-and-cache service. I tried https://mastoreader.io/ but it did not solve the problem.
Alternately, we push changes into the Mastodon web UI to warn users when they need to click to see more and assume that people will get used to the navigation.
Suggestions?
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CVE-2024-23832 Mastodon Vulnerability: Remote user impersonation and takeover
Fixed in Mastodon v4.2.5 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.5
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Unity's Open-Source Double Standard: The Ban of VLC
>You can defeat the Affero clause by putting the software behind a proxy, for example
Could someone elaborate on this? This is NOT my understanding of the license, and it seems absurd considering e.g. Mastodon is AGPL but the standard install requires a reverse proxy[1]. If using a proxy defeats Affero, why would the Mastodon team do this? Are they stupid?
[1] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/dist/nginx.co...
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You Can't Follow Me
Mastodon is free and open-source. Go ahead and add the flag:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING....
- Change Referer value to something generic such as "urn:activitypub:Mastodon"
What are some alternatives?
sub.rehab - A list of subreddit alternatives
diaspora* - A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
LemmyTools - A addon script for lemmy to make it a bit better. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/tschowdy
Misskey - ๐ An interplanetary microblogging platform ๐
thunder - Thunder - An open-source cross-platform Lemmy client for iOS and Android built with Flutter
Lemmy - ๐ A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse
lert - Translating the Lemmy API into a Reddit-compatible API for use with existing bots and clients.
Friendica - Friendica Communications Platform
mlem - Mlem for Lemmy
GNU social - GNU social is social communication software for both public and private communications.
jerboa - A native android app for Lemmy
nostr - a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of working