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.
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.
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.
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:-).
