that’s great :D

yeah content discovery sucks unfortunately :(

I do think there maybe should be better lists and indexes of stuff that shows you related content on the Fediverse.

that’s a good idea as well! might consider that.

I want to set up a Lemmy server too (currently still deciding between Lemmy and PieFed) to host some basic content that we create at a university group with the public. It’s more like a blog than anything else, at least as envisioned. I’d also like to add some cool features to it like auto-posting (i.e. we have a bot that automatically uploads certain posts).

which tbh is a bad idea from the start

I think the reason why Matrix doesn’t use AP is mostly to draw a clear line between public and private activity. Because if you use one protocol for both, the temptation is high to mix them and that leads to unclean implementations which leak messages. I think it should stay divided.

matrix can absolutely be a social experience. check out the 196 blahaj chat: https://matrix.to/#/#196-Blahaj:chat.blahaj.zone

If i understand correctly, Discord is a chat application for private and group chats. There is Matrix chat that works reasonably well as a replacement.

It’s decentralized, open source software, and i’ve used and tested it for at least a year now. It works well enough. It does not use the ActivityPub protocol though.

Mind that Matrix chat tends to private/group chats, which means they’re not typically visible to everyone else. Which means it would make little sense to try to embed them into the rest of the fediverse, which is openly accessible.

“Discuss interesting topics and join communities on the Fediverse.”

IMO it’s better than “link aggregator” because we don’t only share links here, but also images and text.

Also it would be neat if instance admins could automatically set a certain set of “subscribed instances/communities” and “blocked instances/communities” for each new user that signs up on their instance. That would make it easier for instances to give themselves a certain “flavor” so users have an easier time finding interesting stuff.

How about the instance selection wizard (click “join a server” on the homepage), which lets you select topics and languages to select instances. Do the current options make sense?

I do think the “topic”/“language” selection screens make sense overall.

Also what i noticed is that on http://join-lemmy.org/ when you select certain topics (like “Art/literature” and “german speaking”), then the resulting instance list is empty. It might be wise to show at least one instance for every search query, even if it’s not 100% fit. For example, at least display one generic-topic instance for your language or one english-language instance for your topic.

One user told me they got to https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/01-getting-started.html when they tried to sign up instead of to https://join-lemmy.org/ so maybe it would be good to have an easily-visible link there that brings you to the main landing page?

because the alternative is to lose more than we gain each year because the option to “stay exactly the same” is statistically unlikely as it has a probability of around 0%.

better discovery tools

i think communities should have links to “related communities” in their sidebar sothat people can find similar communities more easily.

There could even be a “recommended” posts listing, besides the “subscribed”/“local”/“all” as it is today. it would show you posts from linked communities from communities that you already subscribed to too.

i think if you copy posts/images manually it’s better because it shows that there’s a human actually wanting that community active, so other people can see that and engage as well. if a bot does it, it’s just a “flood” for no reason.

the question is whether the upvotes of that post makes over half of the total upvotes on all posts on that instance, and that i seriously doubt

IMHO the internet isn’t for everyone. that might make me sound like an elitarian asshole but i think the internet’s only for people who enjoy going through information and are able to think without being swayed by group-think (tribalism) because otherwise it simply ends up in a bubble of rage bait and propaganda.

Essentially i think that maybe the internet of the future will be much smaller overall (think like 3% of its current user count) but it will probably be better that way.

Efi System Partition 32 bit?

i remember writing code for the ESP boot system

piefed is great! :D

There’s too many armchair activists here who won’t let you enjoy a single moment without reminding you that something bad is happening somewhere in the world and that you have some kind of moral obligation to be angry all the time about it. And if you’re not angry all the time then you’re somehow part of the problem.

That’s exactly what i’m complaining about as well. Being angry doesn’t even help. Having a clear head helps, but being angry IMO stands against that.