I’m curious which software design principles you find most valuable in real projects.

Two concise summaries I’ve found:

• Clean Code by Robert C. Martin
• A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout

I enabled the “Show Upvote %” option and turned off all the other score-related settings, but now I don’t see anything next to posts where the total score usually appears. Some comments show the percentage, but not in the spot between the vote arrows where the score normally is. I’d expect the upvote percentage to appear for every post and comment in place of the total score, but instead it only shows up as a tooltip when hovering over the arrows. Is this the intended behavior or a bug? Also, is it really necessary to display so many decimal places in the tooltip?

I wish Lemmy let you follow or block entire websites. I’d follow Al Jazeera, France24, 404 Media, and a few local papers from my country so my feed isn’t just US news. I’d probably block most US national outlets.

What sites would you follow or block?

Which scientific, technological, or social achievements are we unlikely to ever complete before artificial general intelligence arrives?

Examples to seed the discussion: fully mapped human brain at synapse-level, reliable molecular nanofabrication, global economic equality, true interstellar travel, or a 100% cure for aging.

I recently discovered NodeBB can federate and started hunting for interesting instances. I’m into tech, literature, and indie games but haven’t found an instance that fits. Could anyone recommend NodeBB instances with active communities focused on those topics? Thanks!

I’d love a Firefox extension that crossposts to Lemmy whenever I upvote a Reddit post. The communities I follow on Reddit are still too niche on Lemmy. I want more of that content here but don’t want to spend the time re-posting manually.

Anyone seen an extension like this?

I like using dark themes everywhere and get flashbanged by photos with bright white backgrounds. Is there a quick way to tone down images so they don't hurt my eyes? I use Linux, Firefox and Redshift.

There should be a Fediverse platform that makes blocking entire topics as easy as blocking a tag, not subscribing/unsubscribing dozens of communities. Firefish (antennas) and PieFed let you follow/block keywords, but that’s not the same as robust, community-wide topic blocking. Imagine collaborative, booru-style tagging across posts so blocking a tag reliably removes all content using it. Does anyone know of software that already provides topic-level blocking out of the box without needing long manual lists?

I am curious about the various Android Lemmy clients available, specifically which ones allow users to switch between instances or accounts. I am interested in the ability to view different local feeds across multiple instances seamlessly. If you have any recommendations, I would love to hear your thoughts!

When exploring communities to post in, using /communities, I believe it would be more effective if they were sorted by active users per month instead of total subscribers. This way, I can choose communities with higher visibility and engagement, leading to better interaction on my posts. Same when choosing the communities I'm posting to in the /create_post page.

I'm curious about where I can find public lists of banned books across various states in the US. Are these lists openly accessible to the public, or do they mainly remain internal documents shared between the government and libraries?

If you could take your favorite elements from various social media platforms to create the ideal space, what would it be like?