"value of type java. String cannot be converted to JSON object" is basically every 1/3 post.
Heard from folks the app crashes the instant they opened it.
Reuses comments section from previous posts.
Can't differentiate search by content vs search for communities,
Can't just paste a community URL, or paste a post URL into search
I describe signal as a journalism and cybersecurity nerd app. Because everyone who's serious about either of those two things uses it. The other apps don't come close.
folks talked about "you should be able to search by [email protected]" not working, even if the community /is/ already federated and sharing content (think [email protected]) - so there's definitely growing pains.
In person conversation and online conversation are very different. Just like the mechanics of picking a lock and hacking computers in another country are very different.
Online conversations can be unintentionally published with mistakes (even the best of us make typos or post to the wrong chat), and the blast radius is much worse.
Online conversations are much easier to misinterpret due to lost context.
If it's a public figure or a company doing something shady, yes, it'll end up on Internet archive.
If a user wants to remove their selfie; you let them, because it's their content.
Whether another site violates gdpr and data deletion requests doesn't mean your site can too.
Lemmy and kbin should be respectful to the user and follow deletion logic, just like how you can delete a mastodon post and other servers will respectfully delete it.
Yes, someone might have scraped it, No, that doesn't remove your liability just because it's up on someone else's copy, And even if you aren't under liability you should treat your users well.
It's the right thing to do.
"should we have a 2 cent sales tax to fund schools or a 4 cent one" is politics. "Should trans people exist" is not politics.
Or, rather, don't argue with someone who doesn't think you're a human being. Don't give them a forum.
Two examples:
when you're browsing your follows on mastodon, and click on their follows, the list is not true to their follows (because your server hasn't fetched them).
and, when you first subscribe to someone's posts, you can't see older posts (say they've got 100, but you see zero).
I'm aware that there are technical reasons (you weren't subscribed), and open source reasons (nobody has the time to volunteer to fix it), but these are insufficient to help an anxious new user who's undecided about the platform.
That's only Mastodon, which has 7 years of refinement. Don't get me started on the litany of federation-related edge cases of Lemmy's UX failings.