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But /r/thinkpad didn’t close… I don’t want to leave that sub :'(
And like some other commenters have said: Lemmy is still very new and no standards and a lot of UX features still need to emerge. I am of the opinion that this fragmentation is a symptom of a UX problem and not inherent to anything specific to Lemmy.
Search needs to be improved to show communities from yet-to-be-discovered instances and provide a way for the user to view them by subscriber, popularity or newest, for example. But right now, it relies on the user to initiate a subscription to a community in another server for server discovery.
I could see a list of “popular instances” emerging at some point as a means for instance maintainers to prepopulate this in the future.m and Lemmy to support importing such a list to seed federation on new instances.
This would be a huge plus, especially if it could be a server-wide multi. Instance maintainers could create /c/technology@instance.com but make it contain content from a curated list of other federated instances with their own /c/technology or lists could be distributed containing popular technology communities and you could import that list as your /c/technology as a personal multi.
I think what they’re trying to say here is that lemmy.world is a site with a community and they’ve got a problem of having a toxic community that’s abusing another community. THAT is their problem and they need to fix it through moderation. Until then, other communities will do what they need to do to limit the damage caused by the users of their community. It’s not solely up to Lemmy.world to create the tools to fix their issue but it is their responsibility to moderate effectively, just like every other community has that responsibility and they have an incentive to work on the tools to make that job easier for themselves but also for all of the communities in the fediverse.
Migrating the knowledge is one part but it doesn’t fix the dead links in the search results from major search providers. And, unfortunately, that is a hard problem to solve because a static (or nearly static) page like a wiki on a niche website doesn’t necessarily get the same ranking in the indexer as a community on Reddit would.
I used to used a *dactyl plugin (can’t remember which one exactly, I remember there being a couple) for FF before Mozilla switched to the new plugin framework and it was fantastic. Since then I’ve switched to Vimium. Is there anything to be gained from tridactyl over vimium?
As a retro computer enthusiast and BBS fan, thank you for sharing these. I’ve indexed them all to the SDF Lemmy instance (lots of retro nerds over there) and subbed to a few myself.
Not a sysop but I’m frequently on Particles BBS with my old C64. I’m also a contributor to the BBS-like terminal client neonmodem, used for browsing Lemmy, and other social platforms, with a BBS like feel.
There’s definitely been a resurgence in “old” Internet tech. I’ve been on sdf.org for a while now and really got to enjoy the “small web” movement as it took off over the last couple of years. First through gopher and then through Gemini and most recently through Superhighway84, a distributed/decentralized Usenet-like application/protocol.
