Ah, well, that sucks. Do you have any idea if the devs are aware of this bug? If so, I hope they fix it one day.

This reminds me of the time Ubisoft developers decided to have a bitchfit about Elden Ring because it didn’t have any of the same shitty monetization or trash formulaic design choices as their games.

It’s like these developers think that because they’re painfully mediocre, every other studio is required to be as well.

You can’t. It isn’t possible right now, but from what I’ve heard they’re working on adding this feature. No indication of when they’ll add it, but it is coming.

For now, you can use Connect to block instances. It only applies when you’re using the app but it’s pretty useful regardless.

You can just block individual bots if you don’t like what they’re posting. Might take some work but in time you’ll be able to curate your feed such that the only bot posts you see are the ones you want to see

Is this still a thing? I thought this was mostly popular in the 90s and dropped out of popularity in the last couple decades.

Oh, I know what the issue there is. Apparently because Kbin is based on an older version of the ActivityPub protocol, when Kbin magazines are synced into Lemmy, posts from before the magazine was synced don’t show up. The only posts that show up on Lemmy are ones made after the magazine is synced, unlike the way it works between Lemmy instances where everything is synced all at once. I’m not sure if there’s anything the Lemmy devs can do to fix this. It might take Kbin switching to the latest version of the ActivityPub protocol for this to stop being an issue, but I’m unsure if the Kbin devs are willing to do that. They seem to be focusing on getting their API out right now.

I also found Kbin’s interface fairly awkward and all over the place. Lemmy’s Reddit-style interface is more to my preference personally. If you’re concerned about missing out on content from Kbin communities as I was when I first migrated, you can easily subscribe to Kbin magazines through the Lemmy Explorer, that way you’ll still be able to see stuff from Kbin without having to deal with Kbin’s UI.

I actually did find and install the nightly version not long after making that comment. I still have it installed on my phone even now. I’m very satisfied with it so far, and have set github to notify me about new releases on the repo. Thanks for the reply.

I don’t think you understood me right. That option is on by default. It only shows upvotes when turned on, not upvotes and downvotes. Jerboa shows both in one place, Liftoff does not, regardless of whether that option is on or off.

So it does. This app also has a very slick UI that looks great, though I’m not a fan of the swipe gestures for everything model, and it appears to be impossible to go to someone’s profile from a comment, block the person, get the permalink for the comment, select text, or anything else the other apps can do. Gonna poke around in the settings and see if there’s something I’m missing here, but so far it’s missing a few too many features to be worth it, imo. Thanks for the suggestion though, always good to try new Lemmy apps.

It does not, at least not front and center the way Jerboa does. I found no option to show downvotes directly when I used it for about a week or so. I reinstalled it just now to see if that changed and it hasn’t. Only way to see downvotes is to press the 3 dots on a post or a comment, press “nerd stuff” then press “counts” to see upvotes and downvotes. This is an annoying hassle to have to do on every comment and post, and there’s no option to just show it in the UI instead of 3 menus deep.

Just the idea of crudely drawn, overpriced pictures of apes needing to be repossessed because of missed loan payments makes me lose it.

It’s so absurd that it reads like a parody.

To my knowledge, this is more of a browser thing than a site thing. You should be able to set your browser to open links in a new tab everywhere by default.

You can but only if the bot account has actually been set as a bot account in its account settings page. Naturally, malicious actors aren’t going to out their own bot accounts by setting them as bot accounts if they’re looking to do something like astroturf or manipulate opinions through voting.

Or just use an ad blocker (as one should be doing anyway)

The worst part about this is that even though most of the people in the comments can see how painfully fake this story is, there’s at least some people on the first post arguing in ernest about the story’s “plausibility”. Tells you everything you need to know about redditors, really. And that’s not even getting into the tens of thousands of upvotes this drivel got even when everyone was actively making fun of the story for how fake it is in the comments.

Holy. The people in the comments of those posts are completely insufferable. I haven't seen this much concentrated idiocy in one place in a while, and I've been on reddit for close to a decade.

Don't pay attention to these pricks, OP. All the interesting people are leaving reddit even now, and all that's left are the wretches who made that site a terrible place to be even long before the API controversy. It's not worth even trying to invite these people here. They'd only make the fediverse worse with their presence.