Deebster

In addition, the “Search Bar” settings in Settings > Search, which let you choose between using the address bar for search and navigation or add the search bar in the toolbar, is also gone in Firefox 122.

This doesn’t affect me, but I’m sure there’s going to be a vocal tiny percent that absolutely hate this news.

I don’t think you can count the sites that just mirror Reddit comments.

Searching on lemmy.ml shows the top being several !news@hexbear.net megathreads with comments in the thousands, then that !asklemmy@lemmy.ml post you highlighted, more !news@hexbear.net threads, then a !meta@lemm.ee megathread about Hexbear’s federation. I guess we can see who comments the most.

I liked this !imageai@sh.itjust.works post Your username is the prompt, what did you get? which has 1618 comments.

Yeah, that got old very quickly, although things like the old Reddit switcharoo* always got an upvote, but the original comment needed creativity and the stock reply needed to link the the previous example. It was cool that it was a different experience each time and that the network grew, occasionally branching, and had maintainers that made sure you could follow without hitting a deleted part dead end.

* after half a year I had to use a search engine to get the name

But here I wrote all of this, instead of just the word “This”

My point is that social media management tools already exist, so why do you think the Fediverse needs to “consider it”? I don’t understand what you’re expecting.

This isn’t a Fediverse-specific topic, that I can see. This is something that’s fairly trivial to do - there’s already services that will post to multiple channels (“social media management tools” seems to be best search term). In these ten months you could have written one yourself!

Also, the main point of POSSE seems to be that you control your own domain and space online, and everything else points back to that. That assumes that your main way of communicating is via publishing chunks of content, of course, which is patently not true. It also assumes that everyone’s way more technical than they are - plenty of people call their browser “the internet” and would glaze over the second you started talking about domain names, etc.

Your comment confused me since I thought you were saying the EFF was cancer at first.

Oh, so css is in there - I’d assumed it would be a false positive.

They misspoke: Hurd will be usable in year 1970!

When you get married you can call her your ex-girlfriend

Hmm, I’ve just tested an that does seem to be the case, at least as far back as 0.17.4. Do you know when this was added? Or if it’s something that can be disabled?

Looking into Cloudflare Always Online, it uses the Internet Archive’s backup instead of keeping on itself which could explain me seeing zero comments (i.e. IA scraped the page after posting but before any comments). I can’t figure out which page in my history was the post in question, so I can’t be sure.

edit: This start bit is wrong; Lemmy does SSR so Javascript-free/spiders should see at least some comments.

Lemmy is currently pretty terrible at SEO, in large part because the comments don’t load until the JS has run.

This isn’t just a problem for search engines, it affect things like archive.org and offline reading. Earlier today I loaded a page from an instance that had dropped offline - while they had Cloudflare Always Online enabled, the page loaded without comments so it was almost useless.

I think it’s a mistake to consider all the SEO-related concerns as irrelevant just because you don’t care about Google, etc. Most of the things necessary for good SEO are just good practices, with benefits for all users, especially in the areas of accessibility and third-party tools.

I’ve done similar - I have three accounts on three instances and they each have different focuses. This account is meme/shit posting (since Lemmy.ml has access to all of it) and my accounts on smaller instances have the noisy communities blocked so I can see my interests.

As a student I wasted so much time mucking around with flags and settings in Gentoo. It definitely wasn’t pointless since I learned so much, but I didn’t need to sit there and watch it compile as much as I did.

It was pleasing to watch though, just like defrag in Windows.

Absolutely, now is the time to fix a few things at the design level:

• Accessibility (let’s get affected users involved, starting with asking for their feedback and current pain points)
• Semantic markup (helps with a11y, SEO, plugins)
• Internationalisation (had anyone thought about right-to-left language support?)
• Usability (also for power users? E.g. make RES-style keyboard shortcuts an option or just the default)

I use screen still too, partly because it’s generally installed on everything already, like vim. I hardly ever use anything but a maximised (i.e. full-terminal) screen at once, so it doesn’t sound like I’m missing much from tmux.

De/reattaching’s extremely useful and another thing I really like in screen is being able to scroll and search the scrollbuffer.

If I was ready for an upgrade, I’d probably go for zellij.

I think the whole Fediverse is struggling with Reddit and Twitter sending a lot of new users their way.

I joined too early and stopped looking as there was so little content. In fact, when Lemmy started becoming well-known, I forgot I even had an account and made a new one elsewhere. Luckily, my password manager has a better memory!