TIL there’s people that still use Yahoo News.
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Hey, free news content sans paywall and an app that does only what it says on the tin. What’s not to like?
Huh, I just looked. I swear it was more cancerous before.
Yahoo Finance managed to make itself real damn useful, and that’s one of the most lucrative ad markets, if not THE most lucrative.
When I woke my Yahoo Mail account from its ancient slumber, everything was in Spanish for some reason, and I expect that reason is that they expanded outside the US and have a large user base in South America, where Yahoo probably doesn’t look as dead. “Free email” goes even farther when your country doesn’t get to have the world’s reserve currency. So Yahoo just defaulted to Spanish for accounts until I had to tell it I’m a gringo.
Americans really do have a hard time remembering the rest of the globe exists, but our companies don’t, so a lot of companies that seem “dead” are just really active outside the US.
So yeah, somebody is still using Yahoo News. Quite a lot of somebodies, actually. Even Americans. Especially Americans. They hooked us with real nice stock market quotes and such. That’s how you reel a Yankee back in, make it easy to see that revenue trend at a glance.
I’m originally from Australia where Yahoo used to be very big, but I don’t think it’s commonly used there now either. Australia generally copies the US though, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that Yahoo News is popular in some countries outside US and AU.
Yeah, I made a filter for the canvas and a bunch of other things. That’s hella annoying. Feels exactly as Reddit, but now I can filter it
If the title text is the same it should just squash them, show you all the options on further inspection.
This is my preferred option. Requires no underlying change to ActivityPub or federation, just makes the end user experience more pleasant until/unless communities gain more distinct personalities that would result in fewer reposts.
Better yet, it should semi-force you to post as a crosspost which would remove the duplicate from end user feeds. Especially if there’s already a post on another community with a matching content link.
I appreciate the poster sharing the article to multiple communities/instances, but would be nice if the Lemmy front-end could batch these (maybe with a link like “appears in a@b, b@b, c@a …”) if the user + link + title all hashed out to the same thing.
I just block the accounts that do this. Make it much nicer to browse 👌
Do you wake up on the same snowy day, every day, with Sonny and Cher’s “I got you babe” playing on the clock radio?
Nah, but I can’t seem to get out of this retro hotel room. It’s freezing in here, and “We’ve Only Just Begun” by The Carpenters keeps playing from the clock radio even though I unplugged it.
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Yeah, missing active various support communities.
beeper spotted
Great app that lets me participate in the forced WhatsApp groups without having meta garbage on my phone! Love it.
Well maybe if you’d block that furry shit you could at least feel better about it.
I only subscribe to the usually most popular community in a subject I’m interested in for this reason
It’s stopping people from subbing to different communities which is probably a bad thing.
Probably, but until a solution is found it only mâles lemmy a mess and imo that’s worse
I suggested an idea to fix this, that I called “thread entanglement”. I had suggested it for Kbin specifically, before, but honestly the base Lemmy software could use something like this. I’d love to see some sort of smart merging of duplicate threads like this be possible.
As others have mentioned in that thread. It would be better as an option from the user side rather than site wide forced implementation. I hope you open a GitHub issue/discussion in the repository so the idea could get more exposure.
Adding this as an issue on the Lemmy GitHub would be a great idea.
My biggest gripe right now is how often everything goes down. About 6 times out of 10 when I go to load anything on lemmy it is down, confirmed on https://lemmy-world.statuspage.io/
considering hopping onto a different instance because of this. Lemmy.world in particular always seems to be experiencing issues.
I personally wouldn’t use one the larger instances, as they’re usually going to have the most issues (more complex deployments, longer maintenance downtimes, etc)
I am most comfortable with lemmy.world because of their old reddit formatting. It made the transition easy. Call it lazy or low brain, but maybe if other instances will also do the old format, they might get more users shifting to their instances too?
Still trying to learn here, but so far I find myself jumping back to old.lemmy.world simple because of familiarity.
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lemmy.world got too big IMO. So I ended up switching to a different instance. If all the users were to evenly distribute themselves across many instances, and not just have everyone on like 1-3 different instances, I think that the issues with unavailability, lag, and whatnot would happen much less.
I had the most issues on my lemmy.world account. I’ve had less issues on my lemmy.ca account, maybe try making an account on a different instance? World has been getting attacked a lot lately.
I’m actually trying to solve this issue on my own Lemmy app. It automatically switches instances when the requested one is down. Works only in the Feed right now and, of course, accounts are still instance-bound - but I will fix that soon.
After I went to my local instance of lemmy, sdf.org, I have literally zero issue
This is why it wasn’t until we didn’t commit to migrating /r/android over until lemdro.id was setup for us ([email protected]).
My biggest gripe is getting a reply, clicking to see the context of the reply, and getting the same reply thrown back at me with no context.
Ya I’m having that issue too. I posted about it here: https://lemmy.ca/comment/1871582
Sync for Lemmy seems to be the only app that actually shows me context right now.
Sync also seems to be pretty good at not showing so many duplicates from different communities, but maybe that’s placebo.
I also find that. Connect would rerun the same posts quite quickly. Sync also seems to not show me so many non-English instances, although perhaps I’ve blocked them all?
No idea about language. I cans still see the non-English instance I’m on, but I check that deliberately as there’s not a lot of traffic.
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There was talk about the ability to link communities in the future, so that dupes show up as merged. No idea what happened of that.
There is no point to linking communities- if they are going to have identical content, just pick one or the other.
A better option would be for cross posts (using the Lemmy cross post feature) to exist as a single entity that is visible in multiple communities. This would allow for some differences in moderation which is the justifiable reason for multiple communities on the same topic in the first place.
