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  • It is a good question, I had the same when I first heard about it.

    I think lots of people keep both installed:

    • the default one is good for managing server related things
    • this one is good for daily use, especially for any other users you might have

    What I liked:

    • feels much faster and smoother
    • UI is nice and clean
    • download manager works nicely, as another user mentioned. You don’t need to open a separate app to play the files






  • Otter@lemmy.catoWorld News@lemmy.worldMedia Bias Fact Check - Automation
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    3 months ago

    I appreciate having this bot, and I also think that it can be tweaked to be better. Are there other services that do something similar (ex. I see ground.news in the bot comments). What might be better is if there was a bot that linked to a few different options, so that people can benefit from the extra information. I seem to remember a Lemmy bot that was doing something like that last year, but I can’t find it now.

    For example, a format like this might get the benefits of the bot while also addressing the concerns people have:

    Information for News Source Name

    See this page to learn about this bot, and how you can support the tools above.

    If the bot was open sourced somewhere, then people could contribute improvements to formatting and add/remove sources as appropriate. It doesn’t need to be a fully democratic process, as the maintainers would get the final say, but it would make people trust the tool a lot more.

    Other small tweaks / bugs

    • The links need an https:// at the start, else it breaks and shows https://instance/LINK
    • If the data can be condensed some more, with inline links as opposed to full ones. Yes we should recommend that developers fix their apps/frontends, but with federation it’s likely that there will be breakages in a lot of places. Improvements to comment format will help.
    • I’m not sure if the thank you and donation link is appropriate in the comment, since it feels like an advertisement / endorsement. Having that information on a separate link would be more fair. For example, ground.news also has a donation page, but it’s not in the comment.