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This is great! Some feedback on UI:

• The first thing I did was click ⇩ on a post and it prompted me to log-in. This is confusing because I thought I could train the recommender without having to log-in. It took me a minute to find the “Like/Dislike” buttons because they require an extra click to open the post menu. Maybe make the Like/Dislike a bit more prominent and accessible, and find a way to differentiate between the controls for training the recommender and the upvote/downvote actions on the post itself. Or even better, make them the same thing so there’s only one pair of controls and if you’re not logged-in then upvoting just boosts the recommendation but doesn’t actually send the upvote action to the post.
• Please use actual links (<a href=""></a>) for post navigation so that I can tell my browser to open a link in a new tab. Usually I middle-click to do this (in Firefox) but since the post title and content only respond to javascript events, I can’t middle click to open in a new tab. Clicking the post opens it in the same window.
• Add text content of posts, or at least a button to expand the text content. Right now text posts are just the post title and I have to click through to read the content.
• Add alt-text (tooltips) to your buttons. I know what the standard share/bookmark icons look like but it helps to have tooltips to be sure.
• Add a link to open the original post (on the origin server). Every fediverse UI has this. If you have it too, I couldn’t find it.
• Allow me to see (and drag) the scrollbar of the main content frame.
• Add a refresh button (maybe at the top of the feed) so that I can generate more recommended content without having to actually reload the page in the browser.
• When clicking a community name, I get the community page but I can’t press the back button to go back to the feed.
• If I “dislike” a post, I don’t expect to see it again after a refresh, or ever.

Also, it’s a bit late to change it now, but the name is very 2009-internet-startup.

So the training environment was not Touhou? So what does the training environment look like? I’d be interested to see that, and how it improved over time.

If you’re not storing on a filesystem that calculates and checks erasure codes then you can always generate PAR2 files yourself.

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Postel’s Law is relevant here. Conservative in what you send (simplify the schema of the data on the wire) and liberal in what you receive (put the complexity for interpreting that data in the client).

i’m sick of this “the fediverse isn’t for the masses” sentiment.

The previous commenter didn’t say anything to indicate that is their opinion. They said:

many of us are on the fediverse because we want to get as far away from anything that even remotely resembles, copies, piggybacks off of, or otherwise has anything to do with corporate-owned, centralized, ad-infested, user-hostile, privacy-invasive, social media platforms.

Which one of

• corporate owned

• centralized

• ad-infested

• user-hostile

• privacy-invasive

is synonymous with “the fediverse is not for the masses,” in your opinion?

I enjoyed Cory Doctorow’s book, “Walkaway” which is about a group of people who decide to opt-out of the corporate-controlled mainstream society. There are aspects to the Fediverse which make me think of the kinds of technology that these people use in the book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkaway_(Doctorow_novel)

It’s a great book, give it a read.

I don’t see a link either, even when browsing the original post on the instance that you posted it to.

I just want to know about new games and whatever else that interests me. Why’s that so hard.

Then only subscribe to communities related to your interests. This is what I do and I avoid pretty much all the irrelevant stuff that I don’t want to see.

Meta-discussion about the Fediverse will happen in !fediverse@lemmy.world since that’s what this community is about.