New to this whole Lemmy platform, but I’m liking it.

One problem I’m having is auto-play videos when I open some discussions. Not in the comments, but the post itself starts playing.

I’ll skip my usual rant about what I think should be done to whoever decided to make that a feature, and just ask how to turn it off. I have “auto expand media” unchecked in my lemmy settings.

I appreciate any advice.

  • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 days ago

    When I was using Lemmy, I also preferred the web UI. It also does things that PieFed does not, like PieFed’s search (like Reddit) is crap, but Lemmy’s is superb. And I like how Lemmy can separate up from down-votes, bc e.g. +16 & -15 = +1 is a very different thing from merely seeing +1.:-)

    But over time I simply became too frustrated with its very many limitations, a good fraction of which apps reportedly fix. Although PieFed also fixes them as well, and then some, while still offering a basic web UI. Check it out! But keep your Star Trek account too, and just see how easy and fun it is to use either one to accomplish something:-).

    The chief reason I keep harping on this is that PieFed is written in Python, so is much easier for a community to edit, compared to Lemmy that is written in Rust, which is notoriously difficult even for those who already know C++. The pace of development of Lemmy is thus extremely slow, in comparison. But if it works for people then that’s great, and yet for that audience all I can do is recommend an app to try to address issues such as these that otherwise languishing for months to years without being worked on.

    • SaltSong@startrek.websiteOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Thanks for the advice. I’ve never ever heard of Rust, but then I am a mere dabbler in programming.

      I suppose an app may be my best bet.

      • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Rust is very new, and not very common - in fact the language itself is not finished!:-)

        Check out Voyager - it’s a great app, and as James R. Kirk mentioned, you can check it out prior to download. In fact, here’s the link to the example post I gave earlier with the auto playing video, except in Voyager it does not auto play:-).