There’s already an open issue on this on github - https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2397 - but it’s been open for awhile and there’s 163 open issues of varying degrees of priority. There was a closed issue where dessalines voiced support for it so if more contributors happen to get involved it seems like they would be willing to include it. Unfortunately for those of us that didn’t learn coding/development we just have to be patient when it comes to open source projects that people aren’t necessarily getting paid to work on.

Looking at the block page in settings, it’s interesting that you can’t just wildcard block communities of an instance. If you could just do *@lemmygrad.ml in the community blocklist, that would be what users need.

Well thank you for the info. I wasn’t aware that Hexbear was that unique in having forked off an old version. I was hoping that there were other federated instances using that UI.

That’s what mods are for on reddit, so I’m currently failing to see the problem. Moderators exist on Lemmy servers right? That’s how reddit solves the problem, why can’t that work the same way on Lemmy?

I think the difficulty with a place that has such a low userbase that then grows rapidly is not having a lot of established active moderators. There’s a lag time to some extent to getting active and responsible moderators. Plus not being a moderator nor an admin on Lemmy, I don’t know the capabilities they have at hand, but I know with reddit the moderator tools were built up over time. All of the automodding capabilities they have now didn’t exist at the beginning, and the automod tools are what allow them to handle such high numbers of users. I suspect Lemmy probably doesn’t have extensive automated moderating tools at their disposal at the moment if I consider other deficits that Lemmy has at the moment.

I don’t know that it is meant to be a drop-in reddit replacement. That’s an assumption that goes too far IMO. I think it’s certainly intended to have a lot of similar functionality as reddit, but the nature of it being decentralized tells me right off the bat that it’s not a drop-in reddit replacement. That being said I do think there is a balance in striving to make it easy for people to onboard, especially reddit users looking for something else, but I also understand that keeping out bots and spam is critical.

It’s easy to say it should be changed because we don’t know what would happen if they changed it, but if the site did become overloaded in spam, that would be even more of a detriment than slowing the growth because people have to wait for approval. At least while others are waiting for approval, the people already here can use and enjoy the platform. If you get rid of that and it becomes loaded with spam, then no one gets to enjoy the platform.

I actually have an extension on my browser called Dark Reader that makes all websites dark for me. So I didn’t even know there was a dark mode either.

I originally asked this question because I’m new to Lemmy and wasn’t sure if I was missing something about why the design was this way. I didn’t know if there was some setting or other way to modify to get it to have a different design.

Having looked into it a bit more, just seems there isn’t a way to do it ourselves, perhaps as the userbase expands there might be someone who eventually develops extensions.

What I have noticed is there’s apparently other Lemmy instances that run a different UI, but maybe they aren’t really federated with everyone else. Hexbear.net was one I just found out about. Basically I’m wondering if anyone knows of other instances that are part of the fediverse.

Is there a way to make use of all the white space? I don’t understand why the content is restricted to such a small portion of the page.