This article will describe how lemmy instance admins can purge images from pict-rs.

Nightmare on Lemmy Street (A Fediverse GDPR Horror Story)

This is (also) a horror story about accidentally uploading very sensitive data to Lemmy, and the (surprisingly) difficult task of deleting it.

Mutual Button

The Mastodon web UI has a new feature.

When you follow someone and they follow you back, the follow button says: "Mutual".

Seems like a nice simple feature that improved the user-experience (UX).

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#Fediverse #FediverseUX #Mastodon

A story of Fediverse UX problems

by @luna

@fediverseux

https://pony.social/@luna/111677040345727901

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It feels like the create podcast process in Castopod has some friction.

You cannot create a podcast unless you have a cover image ready for it.

The cover image must be at least 1400px × 1400px.

How many potential podcasters know they need to have this ahead of time? How many potential podcasters have an image of that size ready?

This feels like a place that could cause users to give up, and bounce.

Could a default or automatically generated podcast cover image, etc, be used if the user doesn't have one ready?

When you set-up a new Castopod server, there no link or hint on how to sign-up from Castopod homepage.

That is not ideal, as it is not clear what to do next.

You cannot do anything for your podcast without being able to sign-in.

The actual sign-in page is at /cp-auth/login

So, for example, if you Castopod server is a https://example.com/ then the sign-in page would be at https://example.com/cp-auth/login

A request for being able to choose what the preview image is for a video, chosen from the frames in the video.

https://socel.net/@folduptoys/111216008353147790

I can imagine having editing tools would also be useful.

It is also common elsewhere for people to be able to use custom images for preview images.

Some want access to breaking news.

https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1710701583988896115

https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/110483509566586790

https://twitter.com/Plinz/status/1685945305320329216

Each Fediverse server instance has its own local user accounts. But because they on a federated social-media network (called the Fediverse) with other server instances, each server instance needs some "awareness" of user accounts on other server instances.

Part of this "awareness" tends to be caching the profiles, bios, avatar images, etc, of user accounts on other server instances — i.e., remote user accounts.

Some of these images can be very large. And can cause the cache of remote user accounts to take up a lot of drive space. Which often translates to a higher monthly hosting costs.

This could apply to any Fediverse software.

But this particular example of it happened to Pixelfed.

The conversation started here:

https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/111152253455206463

I also talked to Basit Ali (from #SpaceHost) about it, and he said:

There are different ways this could be addressed.

( https://mastodon.social/@reiver/110925625473415578 )

Fediverse software designed for a single-user solo usage should make the website's (root) home-page the user profile page.

I.e., This:

https://example.com/

Rather than this:

https://example.com/＠joeblow

Draft & Schedule Posts for Later

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One feature that is currently missing on PixelFed (and something I wish they had) is the capability to compose a post as a draft and schedule it for later publication.

#FediverseUX #Pixelfed #draft #schedule #MissingFeature

This is from someone on Twitter who is also on Mastodon and Bluesky.

He seems to be a fan of the nested comments UI on Bluesky.

UX problem with Join-Lemmy.org

@fediverseux

“We need a better site to link to than join-lemmy.org. It should concisely pitch lemmy to everyday users and suggest an instance for them to sign up at. Don’t get into the weeds about federation or choosing instances or selecting apps. Just select a sane default and point people to it. Rotate defaults to avoid overloading a given instance or making it too powerful.”

https://lemmy.ml/comment/4353933

https://lemm.ee/post/9881418

#FediverseUX #Lemmy #Threadiverse