There are other vision conditions where people cannot see letters in dark mode that well. Apps and websites should just follow whatever the OS setting is, no matter the motivation of the user. Even if it’s just a matter of taste and not some form of eye sight condition, it’s just as valid.
PixelDroid is a client that supports dark mode.
Look, someone reported this as misinformation. Too bad me, the active mod here, gets pain in the eyes, sometimes flickering vision, and sometimes what I would describe as sea sickness from staring onto bright white screens. When I have no other choice because work, I invert all screen colors but sometimes correct colors are important.
So yeah, no proper dark mode means it’s a crap app.
I’ve always assumed Meta’s investment in Threads’s ActivityPub compatibility was purely to show the EU, “Hey look, we’re trying to follow the open standard.”
Threads’s ActivityPub compatibility isn’t available in the EU. European Threads profiles cannot enable ActivityPub federation.
And naturally those link to a user’s home instance.
But it’s not his personal home instance. It’s his corporate home instance. He wrote that he used his corporate account because it has wider reach but it really is just a free time hobby thingie, pinkie swear. Sure, he could have published the post from his actual private account and then just boosted it from his corporate one but then that fine promotional domain name of his employer wouldn’t be visible to everyone.
My personal conviction still is that I made the right call but as I also have said: If one of the other mods disagrees, they can just restore that post and there will be not a single letter of complaint by me. There are 5 mods overall.
And linking to heise isn’t unheard of… In fact we link to their articles every other day in the German speaking part of the Lemmyverse…
And when there’s an actual Fedi-related article to link to and not just a low effort assortments of hashtags with a cartoon rocket, I’m happy to leave it up.
This post from a day before is much better: https://lemmy.world/post/24151008 Still those hashtags but at least actual content by posting a tutorial.
Do you believe me now?
OK, I believe you that a low effort post to promote commercial media outlet heise baited enough people to hit the upvote button. As I wrote in another comment: If another of the mods over there thinks that my decision was wrong, I will not stand in the way when they restore that post. That said, so far nobody of them said anything to me regarding that.
I gave the author plenty of time to explain why that post isn’t commercial promotion. I didn’t remove it right away. He wasn’t convincing and at some point demanded I consult him. People interested in that post can still look it up on Mastodon. It’s not like it’s actually gone or anything.
Not with a ten meter cattle prod for me
I’m waiting for by Loops verification mail but I’d say the average Lemmy user has not that much in common with the average TikTok/IG user.
Meanwhile the mainstream will probably just focus on Instagram and its reels feature as pretty much all bigger creators crosspost everything there as well.
The post got like 300 upvotes.
Not by Lemmy users. Likes/favs federate from microblogging platforms like Mastodon to Lemmy as upvotes but Mastodon doesn’t care about Lemmy’s downvotes. On LW the post had a significantly lower score than on Mastodon, meaning the upvotes are the aggregate of all ActivityPub platforms (of which Mastodon is by far the biggest) while the downvotes are almost exclusively from Lemmy.
Let me give you an example: A Mastodon user has 10k followers. That user publishes a low quality post that only a tenth of those users like. That post tags a Lemmy community with 100 users. Those 100 Lemmy community members can downvote as much as they like, the 1000 Mastodon followers outmatch them.
So no, the “score” is not a metric for popularity by Lemmy users.
would you like to revisit this decision?
There are other mods in that community. If anyone of them comes to a different conclusion, I’m not going to fight it. I still think it’s a post made from that commercial domain explicitly to promote that outlet. The employee gave no counter arguments other than what boils down to ‘trust me bro’. Him ignoring the fact that I brought up that his analytics tool doesn’t even measure Lemmy votes, just Mastodon-style boosts (which Lemmy doesn’t even have), didn’t really made him look any better from my POV. Neither did his later snarky comment.
Again: If one of the other mods over there wants to reverse my decision, I’m absolutely fine with it.
Was it indeed commercial?
heise.de is a commercial platform and that post was made by heise’s head writer.
I agree with the sentiment but this here is not a complaints forum.
Please report that user and his communities to the admins of the instances he’s registered at. A quick look at the sidebars of both sh.itjust.works and lemm.ee would suggest that their admins banning him is a slam dunk.
Maybe ask at !support@lemm.ee and !main@sh.itjust.works what to do?
On the grounds of !fediverse not being a complaints forum, I’m going to lock this post.
Honestly, please tell me more about how I can commercialize this posts.
I’m not your business consultant. If you want to hire me, DM me. Don’t spam this Lemmy community.
I think you misunderstood the request to “share” there. They’re most likely talking about boosts, Mastodon’s version of Twitter’s retweets. Lemmy, I think, doesn’t implement boosts.
It doesn’t, making the posting to Lemmy completely pointless, even if it wasn’t a commercial experiment. Cross-posts don’t count as boosts.
Isn’t this directly about the #Fediverse?
Seems like your primary interest is to measure commercial reach and so far you made no argument to the contrary. I’m not against commercial content in the Fediverse. In fact, I’m in favor on giving users the choice what they follow and what they don’t follow but that question hasn’t been asked by you here. You just made your post and all ~30k subscribers here are the lap rats for your experiment.
Mastodon users mindlessly tagging entire Lemmy communities are a common annoyance and if your analytics tool is the same as in the past, it doesn’t even register any interactions from there anyway, making your experiment even more pointless but not really a pity to me that Lemmy is invisible to your advertisers:
Well, the ad for my employer (as an WP-link) came from you, didn’t it?
You posted from that commercial domain, Wikipedia is non-commercial.
And this is a good way, I think.
That’s a weak argument for why your post isn’t spam. We here at Lemmy did not agree beforehand to participate in your experiment how far your commercial posts reach.
Maybe bow tie but nut this bow tie. Too busy.
So this is a test post you ask users to repost? And by you, I mean a paid writer for Heise, a commercial business? Looks to me at best as a meaningless test post, at worst an unpaid ad for your employer.
How is this not spam and why should I not remove this from !fediverse@lemmy.world?
PS: Note that merely downvoting is not an argument. Reply with an argument if you think that’s a worthwhile post to a Lemmy community.
Uh… it’s a guy’s blog.
That “guy” is among the best known die hard Apple fanboys.
I have a beefier version by that same brand. It’s somehow on sale almost all the time on Amazon. It works fine, the glossy finish of that screen is super dumb because you basically have to consciously put the cable on the back side of the power bank or it’ll scratch the screen like crazy.