Nitrate55

joined 2 years ago
[–] Nitrate55 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] Nitrate55 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Right? The amount of people I've had to block since I started using Lemmy is insane lol. At least the feature actually works here, unlike on reddit where you'd still see a blocked user's comments and posts.

[–] Nitrate55 5 points 2 years ago

Can't wait for all of reddit to become identical to r/SubredditSimulator

[–] Nitrate55 37 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Corpo scum are allergic to saying exactly what they mean, so they insist on hiding their intent behind flowery words that sound "good" to them. I guess they think that if they use weasel words, it'll soften the blow when they decide to strip out features and further destroy their platforms.

[–] Nitrate55 3 points 2 years ago

Go right ahead, it's not even originally mine lol

[–] Nitrate55 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Nitrate55 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Well for one, they don't actually host anything on the site itself. Anna's Archive is technically just a search engine for searching through backups of all the Libgen mirrors and Zlib. Since they made a point of scraping and backing up these shadow libraries, even if those sites themselves (and Anna's Archive) go down, the backups will still be available. That on its own makes it a thousand times more useful to me than any single shadow library site. The backups are also hosted on IPFS and available via large torrent files, meaning anyone can download everything they have backed up and since their site's code base is open source, anyone can fork the site and rehost everything should the need to do so ever arise.

They seem to have a very sophisticated system in place for ensuring that everything they've hosted will always be available no matter what. It inspires a lot of confidence, in my opinion. I personally don't think they'll ever go down, or if they do, a different team can pick up the slack by rehosting everything on a different site.

[–] Nitrate55 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Just tried out my custom URL and it still works for me. Site is accessible as normal. The app also works just fine as well.

The login site is down, but the Tor site should still be accessible, so all one would have to do is just go there, generate a unique URL, and then use that on their normal browser. Or better yet, just use Anna's Archive, which isn't prone to getting taken down like this and was specifically made to replace Zlib.

[–] Nitrate55 4 points 2 years ago

Capitalism is the greatest expression of human greed.

[–] Nitrate55 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Would be nice if there was an option in the settings to turn on the ability to see upvote and downvote counts for every post and comment. It's pretty much the only reason I keep going back to Jerboa. I really like being able to see the amount of downvotes something might've gotten.

[–] Nitrate55 6 points 2 years ago

Please do, it's desperately needed here

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