Are there any apps that use timestamps instead of time elapsed format? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by Blackfeathr@lemmy.world to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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Since I've been seeing some bots creeping on here, I was wondering if there exists a Lemmy app that gives an exact timestamp of when a comment was posted, rather than using time elapsed.

For example, timestamp: posted 11/14/2025 11:26AM

Time elapsed: 3h ago

In my hunt for bots it would be super useful to see the timestamp, to discern if a bot is making a bunch of comments in the same minute. You can't quite discern that when it all says it happened 7 hours ago.

Any help is greatly appreciated :)

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[-] SatyrSack@quokk.au 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Thunder can be configured as such

Thunder Setting: Posts > Posts > Show Full Date

EDIT: This affects posts, but I can't find a similar setting that affects comments

[-] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Thank you! I'll look into Thunder, I've just been using Jerboa and Voyager so far.

[-] Cricket@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I don't know about apps, but you can see timestamp on native Lemmy on the web by hovering the mouse pointer over the time elapsed label. I had asked about this way back when on Reddit and someone had to point this out to me.

[-] SatyrSack@quokk.au 3 points 1 week ago

Or, on mobile, by longpressing (AKA tapping-and-holding) that same time elapsed label.

[-] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

This is hella useful, thanks! I didn't know browser based Lemmy had this functionality 😁

this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2025

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