Music

I did some research

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3630 https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2529

The main point is that Pictrs handles the files and it doesn't handle mp4 files without a video track It seems it also strips audio tracks out of mp4 files And it also rejects mp4 files with a bitrate too low.

So there is simply no way to post less than 1 megabyte audio file on here. It has to be stored externally and users have to leave the site to see it.

In other words, there will not be music on Lemmy

Also I found that admins and moderators can modify user comments and impersonate them without recourse or even notice.

Also, all up and down votes on the platform are public but admins and moderators have decided to keep this to themselves. Anyone can see them, you just need to host a lemmy instance then you can see how makes any and all votes. But they don't want the users to see this for "drama", they say. Of course this makes finding astroturf campaign difficult, it also makes content discovery remain a server side thing. In other words they reserve the ability to choose what you see.

All in all, really unhappy with lemmy right now, I think this place is just Reddit with new tyrants, not the decentralized haven that it was sold has. In fact many of Lemmy design fight against federation, such as the lack of community agglomeration in the default view which ensures big instances and big communities get bigger and not decentralized.

I did not expect this conclusion from just wanting to post a simple song in the music community but hey ...