Big Social Media shares many characteristics of a drug, with similar anti-social consequences by overuse. But as with drugs, social media is just a symptom of the underlying problem.

It will still have made the rounds, since it trended on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39667026

Take this🏅

Suddenly every comic post I’ve seen has source links included now!

Maybe it was already a more common practice than I realized, but it sure looks like the fediverse hivemind took my simple bit of feedback to heart and promptly began acting accordingly. I love it here 🥰

What you want is Group-to-Group Following, which obviates the need for most cross-posting altogether.

https://blog.erlend.sh/transitioning-r-rust-to-the-threadiverse

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-d36d-sharing-content-across-federated-forums/3366

I’d strongly prefer this be optional, so I can turn it off. I’ve never been a fan of these ‘half-way’ transitions; it’s one of the main reasons I preferred Photon over Alexandrite.

I also don’t want infinite scrolling, because having to click for more content makes me more aware of my screen time.

Nonetheless, it’s a cool feature that’s probably useful to many people :)

Something a bit similar to what lemmit is already doing, but more powerful with your addition of comments: read-only, best-of archives of really old content from popular subs.

10-5 year old askreddit posts for instance would be interesting blasts from the past to read today. Isn’t there already a ‘best of Reddit’ convention on Reddit itself that resurfaces such content from time to time?

Sounds like the sort of thing Cory Doctorow would write.

Thanks for an awesome app! It covers all the essentials already.

Any plans to onboard more contributors to help with the maintenance burden?