literature.cafe

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(and anyone else, really)

This is a general special interest lemmy instance focusing on lovers of all things pertaining to reading and writing and all of the people that enjoy it as well as fandoms and niches that exist within reading circles. We federate with other instances, with our local communities being focused primarily on the above.

If you want to federate a new community, go to lemmyverse.net and copy a link to a community and paste it into the search bar. Be patient!

Also, consider installing instance assistant to better navigate lemmy and find communities better! Find links to download them here: firefox, chrome, edge


Instance Rules
  1. Keep it cozy. (No -isms, bigotry, gatekeeping, or general disrespect. Just be nice!)
  2. Please, no visual porn. (Smut and discussion of smut is OK as long as it is tagged as NSFW.)
  3. No spam.
  4. Be mindful of other instance rules.
  5. Keep self-promo to a minimum.
  6. Tag AI generated content as such.
  7. Please avoid piracy.

Server Info

Registration is open with human approval, just to make sure there's no bots afoot. Approval should take less than a day (and are sometimes near instant)

Please check your spam folder for an email from noreply@literature.cafe if you are having difficulty finding email confirmation.

Community creation is enabled. When creating new communities please be mindful of the instance focus.

If you have any issues or concerns, please message an admin

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For those visiting from other instances, we have a community directory to make finding communities easier: !411@literature.cafe


We also have alternative lemmy UIs to use for those who want them.

A familiar UI - old.literature.cafe

Photon - ph.literature.cafe

Tesseract (photon fork with more multimedia focused features) - t.literature.cafe


Donations are greatly appreciated and go entirely to server costs but are not required.

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Readme of the project:


Minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client.

🗣️ Pronunciation: /fænpi/ (FAN-pee) 🔊 Listen

This is an alternative web client for Mastodon.

  • 🏢 Production: https://phanpy.social
    • production branch
    • break less often
    • slower fixes unless critical
  • 🏗️ Development: https://dev.phanpy.social
    • main branch
    • may see new cool stuff sooner
    • may break more often
    • may be fixed much faster too

🐘 Follow @phanpy on Mastodon for updates ✨

Everything is designed and engineered following my taste and vision. This is a personal side project for me to learn about Mastodon and experiment with new UI/UX ideas.

Features

  • 👪 Multiple accounts
  • 🪟 Compose window pop-out/in
  • 🌗 Light/dark/auto theme
  • 🔔 Grouped notifications
  • 🪺 Nested comments thread
  • 📬 Unsent draft recovery
  • 🎠 Boosts Carousel™️
  • ⚡ Shortcuts™️ with view modes like multi-column or tab bar
  • #️⃣ Multi-hashtag timeline

Design decisions

  • Status actions (reply, boost, favourite, bookmark, etc) are hidden by default.
    They only appear in individual status page. This is to reduce clutter and distraction. It may result in lower engagement, but we're not chasing numbers here.
  • Boost is represented with the rocket icon.
    The green double arrow icon (retweet for Twitter) doesn't look right for the term "boost". Green rocket looks weird, so I use purple.
  • Short usernames (@username) are displayed in timelines, instead of the full account username (@username@instance).
    Despite the guideline mentioned that "Decentralization must be transparent to the user", I don't think we should shove it to the face every single time. There are also some screen-reader-related accessibility concerns with the full username, though this web app is unfortunately not accessible yet.
  • No autoplay for video/GIF/whatever in timeline.
    The timeline is already a huge mess with lots of people, brands, news and media trying to grab your attention. Let's not make it worse. (Current exception now would be animated emojis.)
  • Hash-based URLs.
    This web app is not meant to be a full-fledged replacement to Mastodon's existing front-end. There's no SEO, database, serverless or any long-running servers. I could be wrong one day.

Subtle UI implementations

User name display

User name display

  • On the timeline, the user name is displayed as [NAME] @[username].
  • For the @[username], always exclude the instance domain name.
  • If the [NAME] looks the same as the @[username], then the @[username] is excluded as well.

Boosts Carousel

Boosts Carousel

  • From the fetched posts (e.g. 20 posts per fetch), if number of boosts are more than quarter of total posts or more than 3 consecutive boosts, boosts carousel UI will be triggered.
  • If number of boosts are more than 3 quarters of total posts, boosts carousel UI will be slotted at the end of total posts fetched (per "page").
  • Else, boosts carousel UI will be slotted in between the posts.

Thread number badge (e.g. Thread 1/X)

Thread number badge

  • Check every post for inReplyToId from cache or additional API requests, until the root post is found.
  • If root post is found, badge will show the index number of the post in the thread.
  • Limit up to 3 API requests as the root post may be very old or the thread is super long.
  • If index number couldn't be found, badge will fallback to showing Thread without the number.

Hashtag stuffing collapsing

Hashtag stuffing collapsing

  • First paragraph of post content with more than 3 hashtags will be collapsed to max 3 lines.
  • Subsequent paragraphs after first paragraph with more than 3 hashtags will be collapsed to 1 line.
  • Adjacent paragraphs with more than 1 hashtag after collapsed paragraphs will be collapsed to 1 line.
  • If there are text around or between the hashtags, they will not be collapsed.
  • Collapsed hashtags will be appended with ... at the end.
  • They are also slightly faded out to reduce visual noise.
  • Opening the post view will reveal the hashtags uncollapsed.

Filtered posts

  • "Hide completely"-filtered posts will be hidden, with no UI to reveal it.
  • "Hide with a warning"-filtered posts will be partially hidden, showing the filter name and author name.
    • Content can be partially revealed by hovering over the post, with tooltip showing the post text.
    • Clicking it will open the Post page.
    • Long-pressing or right-clicking it will "peek" the post with a bottom sheet UI.
    • On boosts carousel, they are sorted to the end of the carousel.
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It's far and away my favorite Mastodon app on both iOS and Android with a beautiful UX design and robust features set that put it in a league all its own.

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