Hi! I joined Lemmy.zip in search of an European / non-US alternative to r/. I heard about Lemmy via one of the several Buy European / European alternatives community posts. While signing up for the .world instance it urges you to have a look at less generic instances that might match your interest. That’s when I found you. I game from time to time, work in IT (architecture) and have a broad personal interest in understanding the ‘How’ behind technology. Lemmy.zip sounds like a good match!

While getting settled and trying all the different web apps I have observed:

  • All the different front-ends (a. /m. /t.) require a new login, this feels a bit strange while you are on the same domain.
  • The mobile m.lemmy.zip (photon), while looking pretty has a few issues:
    • The setting to blur NSFW thumbnails does not work, they show unblurred. Other apps (e.g. Tesseract) do blur.
    • Scrolling through the feed on Firefox (Android) is very jerky with a lot of ‘hickups’ going back up for a fraction of a second while scrolling down.
  • While I’m not opposed to seeing content in posts that could be considered NSFW, I’m not particularly looking for it or communities focussed on it. Turning(/leaving) visibility on however floods the ‘all’ feed with (bot)posts from porn-related communities. Is there a way to leave NSFW visibility on, without seeing those communities recommended in the feed?

So far I prefer t.lemmy.zip for mobile (Firefox) and a.lemmy.zip for desktop (Zen browser).

  • DemigodrickMAEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    Hey!

    For the Photon front-end, you should be able to turn on blurring in the user settings for NSFW marked content. It should use the same settings you have in your account for this, but it sounds like they haven pulled through. Can’t say I’ve experienced the lagging on scrolling either, i too use firefox on android but can’t replicate it. It’s good that Tesseract works though (it’s based on photon but with loads of extra features).

    In terms of NSFW visibility, there isn’t an ideal solution at the moment. We did try tidying this up a while ago, but it ended up breaking some functionality due to how it works. I have actually recently logged this with the Lemmy devs: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5468

    Ideally we’d like to hide the communities from the /all feed but still allow people to search for and interact with them if they want. At the moment we can only suggest blocking the individual communities you don’t want to see as this will hide them from your feed, or make sure to subscribe to the communities you do want to see and stick to /subscribed :)

    • PropheticusOPEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      Hi, Thank you for taking the time to directly address my findings. All in all I like what I see here so far! Getting acquainted with all the concepts will probably take some time. Most are familiar, but also worded/implemented slightly different. Then there’s the diverse front-end (Web)Apps which also add different behaviours. I hope me sharing these findings doesn’t come across as complaining; trying to help spot possible improvements / testing if it’s me or the app.

      For the Photon front-end, you should be able to turn on blurring in the user settings for NSFW marked content. It should use the same settings you have in your account for this

      Well, visibility is enabled in my account (API only?) settings, but there’s no blur or hide until clicked option there. Within the app-specific settings of m.lemmy.zip I have enabled the blur option… but no blur is applied. I can replicate the same on desktop (Zen browser).

      This together with the low thumbnail quality compared to the other web-apps you offer, made me switch to t.lemmy.zip So I’m glad there’s choices :-)

      Can’t say I’ve experienced the lagging on scrolling either.

      I think it’s related to that hovering dock for navigation. It’s jittery while scrolling, but the whole screen feels like <30fps during a scroll move.

      Ideally we’d like to hide the communities from the /all feed but still allow people to search for and interact with them if they want.

      I agree. That’s indeed the desired or expected behaviour, but I can live with expanding my subscriptions and using to the ‘subscribed’ listing. I do like browsing ‘all’ from time to time to break out of the bubble so to speak. Also there, blocking individual communities sounds like a one-time investment and something I can live with.

      • felsiqEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        Depending on what you’re looking to see NSFW-wise, blocking lemmynsfw(?) as an instance will keep most of the sexual stuff out of your all feed while letting you keep nsfw on for other stuff.

        • PropheticusOPEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          Thanks for that tip. Not looking for per se, but I just don’t want overly restrictive filtering on what is considered NSFW (a bit of skin, gore, medical cases). I’m not going to browse Lemmy on a work device anyway.