I’m trying to view Lemmy from the browser but have already seen most of the posts at the top, so to get new stuff I’m trying to look at all communities sorted by new. But as I scroll down the page keeps refreshing the posts automatically and pushing stuff I’ve already scrolled past into view again, and sometimes causing misclicks. Is there a way to disable that so I only get new posts when I refresh the page?

This problem is only going to get worse if the site gets busier.

  • MenachemEnglish
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    2 years ago

    That’s concerning. There’ll be a ton of problems like that if Lemmy actually sees a mass migration happen. Top of the list: what’s stopping people from vote brigading posts with accounts from different instances? I’ve had to create 3 of them just to be able to consistently access the site as the first one didn’t work and the second (this one) saw excessive loading times for a few hours.

    • sexy_peach@feddit.deEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Also unfortunately lemmy is still fairly beta software. We only have two full times devs and it’s not been long ago that they were implementing some of the standard features we’re using today.

      We have to work with what we have.

    • sexy_peach@feddit.deEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Top of the list: what’s stopping people from vote brigading posts with accounts from different instances?

      I’ve had different reddit accounts as well, wouldn’t this work there as well?

      In short, nothing. Admins could check from which the votes are coming from and block that badly moderated server.

      • menachem@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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        2 years ago

        At least with Reddit it’s easily detectable (in theory, assuming anyone cared) without putting in the extra effort of IP masking. Here it seems like it’d be impossible to counter even if it were done by a complete layman. If someone has just one account on 5+ different instances they could make a huge difference by voting on their own posts without ever being detected.

        Honestly, now that I think about it, it’s probably already happening to great effect considering how few people there are voting.

        But yeah, oh well. Hopefully something works out.

      • MenachemEnglish
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        2 years ago

        At least with Reddit it’d be easily detectable without putting in the extra effort of IP masking. Here it seems like it’d be impossible to counter even if it were done by a complete layman. If someone has just one account on 5+ different instances they could make a huge difference by voting on their own posts without ever being detected.

        Honestly, now that I think about it, it’s probably already happening to great effect considering how few people there are voting.