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What is Catadon:

Catodon is open source software for building federated communities

Catodon is a fork of Sharkey, but with many features ported from Firefish, and some new ones! Its target is to provide a smoother, more comprehensible UX - so terminology is simplified and made more descriptive, and several features of Misskey/Sharkey that were not widely used or not federated were removed from the frontend. There is also an attempt to make the design more minimal wherever possible - see the redesigned posting form for example. One of the main design goals is to make something more user-friendly, where you can invite your friends and they can adjust easily.

Please join our Matrix space at #catodon-space:matrix.org for direct communication! Feedback and code reviews are much appreciated.

Main differences from Sharkey:

• A new, rounder look!
• You can follow hashtags and words in you Home timeline, by adding Custom feeds (Antennas) to Home
• You can integrate GIF search for your users through Klipy
• Improved notifications: Added a “mark all as read” button to the Notifications widget, there is a highlighted divider between new and old notifications, and they are marked read easier when you view them, so that you no longer need to use the “mark all as read” button as much. You can also see a list of who reacted in grouped reaction notifications
• Threads in timelines (imported from Firefish), greatly decluttering timelines for longer threads
• Users now have the choice to link to external media (including GIFs) without permanently saving them to their Storage, using a new dedicated cache - allows admins to provide less permanent storage space per user, keeping server resources under control
• There is a global, admin-definable cap to the cache for remote files, so that you no longer need to manually delete it regularly
• Different/simpler terminology so that new users can understand what everything means more easily
• Decluttered buttons under posts: Like/Reaction (merged), Reply, Repost/Quote (merged)
• Deprecated/removed from the frontend the gamifying or local only/not widely used features: Channels, Achievements, Gallery, Clips, Games, Chat, Play
• Redesigned left sidebar. Much fewer items in the Navigation Bar, which now expands/collapses with a button. The profile picture now acts as a direct link to your profile, as it’s separated from the account menu that sits under it
• Fewer timelines, no hardcoded links in the header menu - everything is a timeline
• “Accounts timeline” based on the “Following” page, but upgraded to a timeline with columns scrolling independently and a search bar
• The local timeline now takes the server’s short name, adding a unique touch to your community
• Custom feeds and Lists are in their own dedicated timeline
• More filters in timelines and Lists - you can now view your following accounts’ replies to others (or only to accounts you also follow) in Home, choose between Following and Mutual followers, and include the public posts from your server in Home (covering the functionality of the deprecated “Social” timeline)
• Post area is now clickable everywhere, not only over the text area
• You can view all reactions together under a post in detailed post view (added “All” tab). You can also see the total number of replies+subreplies next to the number of direct replies, showing instantly how deep the discussion under a post goes
• Redesigned posting form with buttons in more practical positions - also the collapsed posting form at the top of timelines takes up half the space the old one did
• The posting form autoexpands as you write longer posts - imported from Firefish
• Autocomplete also shows results for names of users - you no longer need to remember the exact username to mention or DM someone
• You can disable sign-in emails by deactivating sign-in notifications
• You can now close the alt text window over images, which can make parts of them hard to see/read, by clicking on it
• Much better key navigation - both with h/j/k/l and arrows. Focus is more often where you expect it to be, so that you can key nav instantly when opening a page. You can also swipe through timelines on desktop with left/right
• Countless bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements!

Only server i found: https://catodon.rocks/

My understanding is you can’t migrate posts and comments, but you can migrate subscriptions and blocks. I’ve done it to both Lemmy and Piefed instances.

I think the common answer is native plants.

Fediverse community links:

https://threadiverse.link/slrpnk.net/c/nolawns

!nolawns@slrpnk.net

I’m on Voyager (Samsung Galaxy A15).

Looks like Lemmy lost 3.4% of MAU over the last week (Fediverse Activity Post). With severs jumping in and out it might feel more like 7-8%.

did killing this one healthcare CEO dismantle the entire US healthcare scamdustry

For some added context, while it didn’t dismantle the entire US healthcare scamindustry, I recall it causing insurance approvals to significantly increase for the next few weeks (like to the level of everything was approved / no rejections).

I don’t know if or how many lives were saved by that increase in approvals, but if I had to guess, I’d guess that more people lived than died, due to the killing of one healthcare CEO.

Sorry you ran into those issues and the rude person.

I think new accounts have some restrictions for the first 3(?) days. My understanding is that this was implemented to try to counter an annoying person who keeps making accounts doing shitty things and then deleting that account and making a new one.

I’m pretty sure there’s a way to add multiple images to a post, but I’ve never done it.

For the new content, you may want to try switching your view to “New” or if it’s your first time looking at piefed during the day “Top (x)” [x being how long since you last opened at Piefed]. Those methods usually bring me a bunch of new content.

Hope your experience gets better :)

Edit: It didn’t occur to me earlier, but are you on “Subscribed” feed or “All” feed? If you aren’t on all, I would suggest switching to that until you have enough subscribed communities.

Forever Skies is kind of like that.

I thought it was just “okay”, but if you have interest in the setting, it might be worth checking out.

I’m having the same issue (started 2? days ago).

I can up and down vote posts but not comments.

Also, don’t know if related, but I noticed my votes on comments were getting removed a week ago. I’d upvote something and then come back to it the next day and my vote would be gone (not up voted, no error).

I tried logging and and back in, with no effect.

Edit: Phone Info - Galaxy A15, Android 16

Tried clearing cache, no effect

Edit 2: issue resolved.

Haha. All good. Thanks for clarifying :)

Apologies, I’m confused. Is “JoJo” an autocorrect error, a type of Kobo e-reader, or a different reader?

Caveat: I haven’t purchase or used another e-reader since I bought my first one (Kobo) ~15 years ago.

My Kobo still works and the battery still lasts like a week or longer before needing a recharge.

I don’t think I’ve run into a book file it can’t read, but I mostly stick to epubs and PDFs.

I’m pretty sure it has an online store, if that’s important.

For your requirements, I have no idea if a planner has been implemented in the last decade, but I would suspect Kobos can read Libby library books (not sure what they are though). I believe my ~15 year old Kobo has a sync feature, but I don’t use it. So that’s probably available as well. For easy on the eyes, I’m assuming brightness settings, which Kobo had and I used on occasion (they may have adaptive sensing now).

I recall Kobo used to be marked as the “open” platform, so unless something has significantly changed, Kobo shouldn’t lock you in or charge you a subscription fee.

Best of luck. Hope you are able to find an e-reader that works for you.

Edit: Just found this website with a bunch of Kobos compared. It looks like some have Dropbox sync and “Dark Mode” (I assume for easier on the eyes).

I think I know what you are talking about. I think it has to do with unstable/slow internet. Usually resolves after closing the app and waiting a bit.