Voyager is extremely impressive for what it is - webapp
It’s not only a webapp anymore, but also available as native app now
Voyager is extremely impressive for what it is - webapp
It’s not only a webapp anymore, but also available as native app now
No, this is the most serious lacking feature IMO.
But you could of course simply register your username at multiple instances and subscribe to the same communities. As there’s no ‘followers’ like on Mastodon, the effect is the same.
If that’s so, these instances (and who knows which other ones in the world) now host OPs and comments that I as an author decided to delete.
How does one delete information from the fediverse? If this is true, you cannot. Your data will be hosted forever, at least somewhere.
If people use their personal name for an account, this might result in a significant GDPR problem for all instances.
No, what I mean is that any user can randomly start sending DMs to another user and I don’t want any DMs.
Blocking is an action when the DM was already received.
You cannot block a user that already send you a message.
You also cannot delete a DM unless the administrator helps you. If you receive abusive material you’re more or less stuck with it.
I don’t want DMs, but I must accept them now.
You don’t need to allow other people on your server.
If you start your own server, you moderate yourself.
Whether others want to federate with your server is up to them.
The best way to get a quick understanding I think is to listen to episode 561 (2015) of This American Life about NUMMI in California:
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/561/nummi-2015
Toyota was more or less forced to start building cars in the US in the early eighties and did so in an unlikely joint venture with General Motors. GM was very interested in learning how Toyota build their cars. Bottom line: the Toyota Production System or TPS is mostly a way of management thinking that is completely different from the way most companies in the world manage people.
It is based on trusting employees, enforcing employees by training them, allowing employees to report errors as soon as possible, viewing the production proces as a manager with your own senses, understanding the production proces, truly following a vision and more.
Toyota actually does what most managers learn in management schools but don’t practice. Most managers outside Toyota want to be a boss and not a leader. But Toyota wants leaders that are being followed by employees based on intrinsic values.
Interestingly, the Toyota Production System is heavily influenced by the Training Within Industry program developed by the US Army during WWII and taught in post-war Japan by the US. And statistician W. Edwards Demming who showed Japan what true PDCA looks like.
Although an initial success, the production plant ultimately stopped operating. It was purchased by Tesla, and AFAIK, as of today Teslas are being build in the same plant in Fremont. But I highly doubt TPS is used to build Teslas.
Really? Didn’t know that was possible but it’s great to hear that.
This is a good question, because it never gets a proper answer.
I think most people consider it a way to approve or disapprove an OP or comment, but it’s completely unclear why.
Let’s say you post an OP about basketballs in the community!basketballsarecool@someinstance. If your OP describes all the cool things about basketballs, you’ll receive upvotes. If your OP describes basketballs are useless, you’ll receive downvotes. And it probably will be the reverse in the community!basketballsareuseless@someinstance.
Lemmy could at least stand out if the development community would remove downvotes. It’s an unnecessary polarizing passive aggressive way to disagree with somebody, that leads to all kinds if unnecessary negative emotions.
But it would be even better if the whole upvote / downvote system can be disabled. You don’t know who is upvoting / downvoting and what does it say?
It’s not very different than Reddit. Either browse communities or browse all posts and try to discover communities you like.
Might I suggest you download and install wefwef (which was renamed to Voyager recently)?
Wefwef/Voyager is a progressive webapp or WPA. You don’t install it from an app store, but install from within any browser. It’s much easier to navigate Lemmy with wefwef/Voyager, but there are more clients that you could try as well.
But it’s still pretty amazing to me: it’s like using Twitter or Instagram to read and reply to Reddit!
It’s probably amazing because everybody is used to social media platforms blocking access to and from other platforms. The point of these commercial platforms is to reel in as many users as possible and keep them in the ecosystem. No export possibilities, no federation or standard protocol.
It’s like a large company inventing e-mail and not allowing people to e-mail to an e-mail address registered to another domain. Nobody would think that’s logical, but most have grown accustomed to commercial social media locking every account in.
Voyager is now available as a native app in the app/play store