the sorting algorithms definitely need some work, I try to use ‘Hot’ but it constantly shows me posts from 1+ year ago

and multi-reddits were the only way I used that site once the feature was created so that would be a very welcome addition to lemmy!

anytime I saw a thread on reddit with 1,000+ comments I didn’t even bother to add my own view

I do like how pretty much any thread here on the fediverse is small enough that I feel like I can make a comment and participate

some communities do feel quite active, but I think sports as well as some niche interests could use a boost in activity here

according to that same website, kbin activity has been dropping

down from ~57,000 average at the beginning of July to about ~32,500 active users now

https://kbin.fediverse.observer/dailystats

I know I’ve been having issues with federation from kbin magazines to my lemmy instance, so I wonder if this is part of it?

I’m not sure if all of your points are covered, but this page has fediverse tips and an active mastodon account where you might be able to ask for the remaining scenarios to be covered

https://fedi.tips/

https://mstdn.social/@feditips

that makes sense

federation between kbin.social and my instance lemmy.sdf.org seems to be awful and I couldn’t tell where the breakdown was occurring because the issue is intermittent/partial federation

I’m not a web developer so I can’t really say what solutions are best, but I have faith there are people smarter than me working on robust solutions

I haven’t looked at the specs but it is similar to UDP vs TCP?

quoting posts unlike Mastodon

what happens when a Firefish user quotes a post and it federates to Mastodon? Is the quote lost?

cool I’ll check them out, thanks!

I completely stopped using reddit but that old.reddit.com interface is still the best imo

most themes look like from early 2000’s

I thought that was a major selling point 😭

I’m assuming you’d need an account specifically on endlesstalk.org to use these frontend?

I’m already moderating a few communities so completely migrating to a new instance is probably not worth it for me (and I’d prefer to keep my sdf.org connections)

I’d love it if these alternative sites could use a login from a different instance somehow, basically operating in the same way a mobile app does

there are definitely federation issues with kbin.social

I’m on lemmy.sdf.org and my subscriptions to kbin magazines are extremely flaky and sometimes don’t work at all

I’ve tried posting about it on both my lemmy community and kbinmeta on kbin.social but never got much traction on why federation is hit-or-miss

hey its like our own little MTV Unplugged session :D

the wet bandits strike again!

interesting, maybe I’ll have to dig around the ActivityPub documentation to see how data is formatted

I posted a link to Lemmy (from Lemmy) and now I’m viewing the post from Mastodon to see if I can determine how the data flows

the link appears directly in the Mastodon post view but the text I entered on the Lemmy post didn’t show up in Mastodon

maybe this would work as a linked post from Mastodon to Lemmy?:

TitleOfPost
some-link-to-an-external-url
@communityname@lemmyinstance

but that may just create a text post with the link as the ‘text’

I guess I need to try it out with a test post or in a test community so I’m not spamming anyone with my testing :)

is there a specific type of content you want? you can try following ‘groups’ instead of hashtags

the benefit of groups over hashtags is that you see posts from profiles that have not yet federated with your specific server since the group itself boots anything that is posted to it, so you can sometimes see things that hashtags miss

here is a website explaining it a bit more:
https://a.gup.pe/

to follow a group simply put whatever you want to follow before @a.gup.pe like so:
gardening@a.gup.pe

Name will essentially be the text after the c/ in the URL
Display Name allows extra text and will show when people browse using the Communities tab. Text in the Display Name is also searchable

example: I made a community called ‘retronet’
that is the Name, which corresponds to this url: https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/retronet

the Display Name is ‘retroNET - Vintage Culture/Websites/Software’, which is what people see in the Community browser

I use chatgpt to get me pointed in the right direction and have it provide some basic boilerplate code for smaller tasks

I needed to go through a bunch of .json files and modify various elements

I was able to implement what I needed without google/documentation/stackoverflow

been on Lemmy since the original blackout, haven’t seen a single tiktok yet!

it was my own fault on reddit though, for some reason I used to browse r/all and it was always garbage, why did I do this myself?

TOTK still, because once Pikmin 4 comes out I will switch to that

still haven’t even beat a single ‘regional phenomena’ yet… can’t stop myself from randomly exploring, which is honestly my favorite part of botw/totk anyway