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  • yea, when I open the community in Boost it's empty there too

  • just to note:

    this hides the community from searches unless you put in the exact community ID

    https://programming.dev/search?q=news&type=Communities&listingType=All

    this also hides the comments inside posts from the community, unless you are subscribed, even if you browse to the post directly

    I think this should maybe be considered a bug? anyone agree? I can file the bug report on Github

    EDIT: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5390

    and https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5391

    and https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2943

  • Right but it's not a well-known feature of Lemmy, so people won't know that

  • the title of this post sounds more serious than it actually is, maybe the title should be modified?

    maybe just add "unless you subscribe"?

  • Heavy modding of older games PC can be a pain in the ass.

    Sometimes the older games are the easy ones to mod, and the new games make it intentionally difficult. Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Quake, Deus Ex are all mod-friendly.

    It can also depend on how much work the mod developer puts into making it easy.

    (I notice you have an MiB as your profile pic and Deus Ex's Liberty Island skybox as your profile banner lol)

  • (Because mods compete against sequels or something?

    yea sequels, expansion packs, and DLC

  • yea but it definitely pushed a lot of people away, if we had Lemmy v0.19.8 back then we would've retained way more users

    just not the luckiest timing maybe, could've been a lot worse though (like before Lemmy even supported federation)

  • Keep that up for a few more months

    I'm not confident that the internet's attention span is that long, unfortunately

  • Wolfenstein 2009 is underrated

  • To view a link on your own instance, paste it into your instance's search.

    Example with a link to a similar discussion: https://lemmy.ca/post/38173834 (paste that URL into your Lemmy's search, like this)

    (edit: I've been told that Lemmy is a bit smarter than I thought when doing those searches)

  • the way hashtags work? Mastodon has the same issue

  • The problem with hashtags is that the post itself won't be federated unless someone is following the user who made the post (or someone who boosted it). So Lemmy would be unable to see those posts anyways.

    I have thought about a simple ActivityPub service that pulls a Mastodon RSS feed of a hashtag and boosts them all from a group/community actor, I think that would work for following from Lemmy.

  • the difference is the level of control

    X and Facebook are closed source, so you can't review them and they could be hiding stuff in their code or just do things people don't like and we can't revert

    they also control the servers and don't let you self host, so they can make bad admin decisions and there's nothing we can do

    and they also horde the content so you can't get it from somewhere else, which means you can't just leave and use a different platform (not easily at least)

    over here if you don't like the devs then you don't need to donate to them, you don't need to use their instance, or we can fork their code, or even use an alternative (like Mbin vs Lemmy)

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  • hexbear is defederated, which is basically a firewall block

    you can comment on content that was previously copied to our instance yes, but your comment won't get mirrored over to hexbear, and they can't see it or reply either

  • is there something like this for Mastodon? I think microblogging really needs a content discovery algorithm for the mainstream audience