PicoBlaanket

Yeah, I understand what you mean (after a year of exploring the Web Socket).

That lemmy auth value is pulled from a JWT cookie in the browser - which you can access in JS by document.cookie. It allows user-specific API calls (retrieving saved posts, subscribed communities, etc).

Yes exactly - living on the edge!

One way to learn the new API is - explore the code of (similar) extensions and browser scripts, to see how they build and send their calls.

Is there a specific API call you’d like to make?

Maybe someone can reveal that method and endpoint.

This User Script called Fediverse Redirector auto-redirects all Community, Post, and User pages to your home instance. It works well.

• Just click install on that page - it will be added to TamperMonkey (or similar).

• Then click settings (under the script) and enter your home lemmy instance.

And to directly answer your question: the raw code is visible in that repo, so you could explore how the post redirect query was constructed.

Yes, this issue has been fixed and merged into 18.1 (the next lemmy version).

• You can see the lemmy-UI github issue here.

• You can see the fix/merge here.

And as a temporary fix (until 18.1 releases) - if you click the “create post” button, then click the “back” button, the subscribe button should magically appear.

That’s true - Lemmy displays new comments above “top” comments, allowing them to be seen by everyone.

1. To find new communities - go to https://lemmyverse.net/communities, click the top right “Home” icon and input your home instance (ex: lemmy.world)… now you can open/subscribe to every community you like.

2. Get a good mobile app - they are listed here (with a ton of other great new-user tips): https://lemmy.ml/post/1470777

3. Change your default “Sort Type” to “Subscribed + New” (in settings) - now you have a fresh feed of your exact interests, every time you open Lemmy.

4. Communicate in a genuine, open-minded way - to me, Lemmy is a good place to really connect with people, and have honest discussions (versus the often more ‘performative’ tone of greeddit).

I agree, there is a time for purposeful sarcasm.

To me, it requires two conditions:

1. A person has already expressed their real perspective to a specific ‘opponent’, and

2. That specific opponent cannot see the hole in their own logic.

This Norm MacDonald radio clip is a good example.

He explains his true perspective, and only switches to sarcasm for one sentence (at 5:25), to show the opponent how she is being goofy [and it works].

His foundation of sincerity gives context to the sarcasm.

Conversely - nowadays - a common ‘communication style’ is to just spray aimless sarcasm at distant or imaginary foes,

which (to me) reflects a deeper cultural issue…

a hiding behind mockery, a suppression of real constructive bravery,

just dunking on one-dimensional charicatures of strangers (who might not actually exist).

[So I agree with you - there are times for purposeful sarcasm.]

This is a very short story about sarcasm:

Ted opposes racist rants.

Yesterday - Ted posted a few exaggerated racist rants (sometimes with the /s).

2,177 people saw Ted’s racist rants.

• 50% of them guessed he was joking.

• 98% of them would not have seen a racist rant yesterday, if it weren’t for Ted’s little gag.

So the question is:

Despite the sarcasm… isn’t Ted just spreading more of what he honestly deplores?

Is Ted subverting his own integrity?

Why not say how we actually feel?

“OP made it opt-in”

1 - It’s not opt-in “By User” though. It’s opt-in “By Community”…

So if one person turns it on, 1000’s of other people see it.

OP keeps saying “you can just toggle it off”… but I really can’t… when anyone can toggle it back on.

2 - Future options for toggling are not much better (bottom of the repo, To-Do section):

• “if a moderator adds the haiku-bot, non-mod users cannot remove it”

• “only allow moderators to subscribe/unsubscribe”

…so the toggle option wouldn’t apply to 99% of people anyway.

“a few users were waiting for this (-OP)”

Who was waiting for it? The top level replies in this thread are:

• you, who wouldn’t use it
• me, who doesn’t want it
• Otome, who doesn’t like it

I think your bot rules are pretty solid though.

Overall, I just feel like… Lemmy is a fresh space…

a chance to make a new culture…

maybe it’s best to leave that old bloated carcass behind.

1 - Yes - some bots are helpful, some (most) are annoying:

• a Haiku bot falls into your “triggered by accident” category (any post that is 17 syllables).

• a Haiku bot also does not add any new contextual information (it just duplicates a comment).

That’s why I’m saying the haiku bot is junk.

2 - In this very post, when Otome said “I never liked the Haiku Bot”… OP responded “I’ve never liked them much either”…

so I’m asking OP: “why create a bot to spam lemmy with low-value duplicate content, if you don’t even like that bot yourself?”

I’m asking you - what value do YOU think this Haiku bot adds?

You did not answer the question… I asked you:

How is a haiku bot not invasive spam?

It’s basically the same as the “all numbers in your post add up to 69” bot.

Okay - What value does a haiku bot add?

It only tells you that a post was 17 syllables…

• and then duplicates a comment (spam),
• and then stretches the duplicated comment vertically (spam).

If you agree that most bots are spam, then why are you making and promoting bots?

Here’s a human haiku:

bots are part of what
made reddit such a wasteland.
most bots are just spam.

i wish lemmy would
remain a place for humans.
why can’t we just talk?

Yeah lemmy is a chill place.

It is wild to watch the rapid expansion.