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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • That’s very possible! I mean as a user I also do like stability (had to instance hop quite a few times when I joined fediverse due to them shutting down) but also see resiliency and strenght in being able to spin up an instance of a platform we are all familiar with. When people leave reddit they don’t have similar alternatives with many users, but on lemmy/piefed we can always migrate and stay on the same platform with different rules and administrators.

    Of course that’s simplifying the whole topic, but I’m not that worried about fediverse. But you are right of course that for new users who are on the edge already this might be a big dealbreaker. That’s why I always suggest bigger instances first. Once you are comfortable with fedi/threadiverse you can migrate to a smaller instance (I did exactly that once I figured out how this all works). I know lemm.ee shutting down probably made a noticable chunk of people give up on fediverse because we didn’t see any instance completely fill the void that lemm.ee’s weekly activity left.






  • Ah must remember wrong or maybe it was proposed!

    Yeah the software would need to know, but in a way “lemmy” knows because it knows which instances your instance is federating with. If your instance isn’t federating with the link target it cant find it anyway.

    Same as the ! Exclamation mark for communities or @ for users it can do a look up (you can put my link to your search input in lemmy and it will find it), but there would be otherways to achieve this too.

    But yeah it would be really nice to have some universal way like the ! And @ signs to point to another fedi post/comment.


  • No problem, I feel like fedistuff is so scattered and hidden that it’s always worth mentioning your favourite tools :)

    The frontends and apps do redirect embedded links in comments no? E.g. if you click this it should automatically use your instance to find the comment (even though its a link to my instance): https://sopuli.xyz/comment/17606535

    Or maybe you mean when you paste an url to the browser that it should automatically redirect to your instance? If so thats tad bit difficult. There was once a post that proposed something like a activityPub/lemmy URI scheme where links would look like this:

    activitypub://<postorcommentidentifier>
    

    But I don’t remember where that conversation led and also I have no idea how feasible that would be.

    Edit: added words



  • While I personally wouldn’t want this and agree with the comments about simplicity, old forum style, privacy talking points, I just don’t understand why people downvote this post.

    It’s a good question that creates good discussion (you know, purpose of lemmy) and doesn’t really lead to anything concrete necessarily. Just interesting discussion.

    People use downvote as a disagree button but it does have a real impact on the feed: this post will get buried by some post feed filters and some people will never see the good discussion going on in here.

    But to answer the question (even though there are already good answers): I personally think it’s also a stressful feature that will just make people feel like they need to answer to replies / will make lemmy look dead because only a handful of people use anything but “invisible” status.







  • You mean to work for public services? I am currently doing that and sadly might have ended up in one of the not-so-nice ones.

    There are a lot of people here who have been here since forever and feel the need to exercise their authority everyday to the “new person” and see everything the new person does well as a threat to their own position.

    But yeah it for sure is more relaxing than in private companies. Took a big paycut to work here because I thought it’s better to feel less strained after work.

    I’ve heard in general that public services are better as employers though!



  • I was about to write down some stuff before I realized that every job I’ve had has been riddled with red flags and I don’t think I actually know what a “nice” workplace is like.

    I just apply to whatever I can get within my field and accepted that work is work. Don’t know if I can ever find a place that I’d enjoy going to. I’ve had workplaces that I tolerate enough to stay the full day and work to get paid.

    But I’m always happy for people who can say they found a job they actually enjoy! Maybe I’ll accidentally bump into one of those some day.