There's already a pull request to fix this, it's being merged in v18
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So, keep in mind, Lemmy is an incredibly young platform. It's still kinda buggy and it looks like they got caught a little bit flatfooted (which is fair, who would have considered that Spez was this much of an idiot prior to it happening).
It's likely that the project has a number of bugs that will have to be ironed out now that they're rolling at a decently sized scale, and this is one of them. Things will likely get patched up fairly quickly, but it still requires dev time.
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It was never exactly a feature, it was to do with how websockets handled new posts. They're movinig away from websockets in 0.18 so it won't be a thing anymore.
I started using the app for lemmy because of this. The app is really nice!
I can't with this...
I was getting ready to reply and it literally timed out on me! Lol
Also, Futurama!
Happy someone caught the reference!
Also, if you are impatient like I am, consider giving kbin.social a try. It doesn't seem to have the issues that lemmy does, but still has all the same content! (as far as I can tell, anyway)
This is why I'm using kbin right now.
I am on kbin now, and, so far, it seems actually usable. Thank you for a working solution!
I like how kbin functions, but now how it looks. Lemmy instances seem more minimal in their design. Idk how to put my finger in it, but kbin just feels clunky imo.
I read somewhere that kbin supports themes, so you may be able to address your design issues that way.
I don't like the way either of them look, to be honest. kbin not refreshing the feed while I am reading it is the sole factor for me.
Using apps fixes it
The app has its own issues. Every time I upvote or comment I get a timeout error.
What device and what app?
I didn't encounter these issues while using another instance but lemmy.world.
Yeah I really don't know what instance to go for.
Lemmy.world sounds least political but it's not stable. Apparently beehaw is now also defederated from .world so immediately we're missing some huge communities that are now going to be split across two instances that don't work together.
So now I'll need multiple accounts to use multiple instances of the same thing. This sort of defeats the whole purpose of a connected system. It could just as wel create worse echo chambers than we have on traditional socia media.
Beehaw defederating from the biggest instances is why I ultimately made an account over here but it's honestly not a good sign that the fediverse is already imploding. Most of us left reddit to get away from idiots on a power-trip trying to control how we talk to each other and it took about eleven seconds for it to get just as bad over here.
Websockets for when Lemmy was relatively empty, so an auto update would be one every minute rather than a torrent.
@Brainsick lol geocities? wow lol blast from the past. and that's not a bug. it's a feature.
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