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Are you not annoyed by Lemmy's constant glitches? (lemy.nl)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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On the instance I'm using, my comments and posts have disappeared. It is ok?

I had a few helpful comments here that I saved, but it's all gone.

Having got used to the stability in Mastodon I was surprised by such things in Lemmy as:

Unable to log into your account through the app after an update on the server.

Unable to log into your account through the app if your instance version is out of date.

Just because you've created a post or written a comment doesn't mean other Lemmy users will see it.

I have to constantly check to see if my messages are visible on other instances.

You also need to have many sub-accounts on different instances in case some of the primary instances are unavailable.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

One that's gotten me a few times is if you're typing a reply to someone, either in the comments or a PM, then mid-typing you upvote (or downvote) them (or anyone else), it deletes your comment-in-progress. I've lost a few comments that way, one of which took about 20 minutes to write which I just gave up on and didn't post afterward.

I also really don't like that the default language option is "Undetermined". It makes not labeling the correct language the default behavior, which makes a lot of foreign language material show up in my feed. Your own post and 2 of the 4 comments at the time of me posting are unlabeled.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have to save written messages to notepad to prevent something like this from happening. And now I've started taking screenshots of comments that are important to me instead of hitting the "Save" button.

"Undetermined"

I don't like it either. I would like the feed to show posts only in my language. I asked my instance admin and he said there was nothing he could do about it.

(It would also be useful to add tags to posts to filter out unwanted content..)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

If you remove "Undetermined" as a language on your profile, then all the unlabeled foreign language content should stop showing up for you. The problem is that all the unlabeled English content would also stop showing up for you, then. That's why having "Undetermined" be the default option is not good - it only makes the problem worse.

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