Yes, and my impression is that there are also a ton of people who very much don’t want to be indexed or findable through inorganic means

I don’t disagree about implementing it and letting instances decide, but they’ve opted for a different compromise of letting people opt in. Having opt in vs opt out be an instance option would be nice, but open source projects aren’t always gonna align 1000% with the priorities that you have personally, unless it’s personally your project

Oh neat!! I thought that idea had been shot down, that’s cool to hear

Thanks for letting me know :) Hope you have a lovely day

That’s a strange take… But even if that logic follows, it’s pretty disingenuous to suggest that’s what ALL users want, and Eugene is the sole opposition. You and I may want global search, but lots of Mastodon users actively loathe the idea.

Personally I think it’d be a better platform for it, but I get why there are folks who don’t like the idea. I also wish they’d implement quoting people, but again, I understand why some folks don’t like that idea. Downvotes don’t really make sense on microblogging to me.

Honestly I feel like a fair part of the problem is just that very few resources for helping people pick an instance are any good. And they’re especially important for a service like Friendica, where if my memory serves, you don’t see activity on the server when you go to their page until after you’ve signed up, so there is no preview of the culture

I think the tools for picking an instance for most fediverse platforms really need to be improved.

I’d love to also see instance reviews, which is a fundamentally flawed concept that could easily be abused, but would still be massively valuable to people in navigating the Fediverse

I know people hate bots because they can sometimes be irritating, or pass themselves off as people, but there are a lot of useful functionality they can implement, or use cases where they make sense

It’s always cool to see people working on fediverse stuff!

Very much agree with this, I think people really overcomplicate it.

“It’s like reddit, but community build and community run.”

And they you can just invite them to your instance

I just say it’s basically reddit but it’s community built and run instead of owned by a big company. And then if they wanna know more about how it works, I can explain the concept of it being distributed and whatnot

I very much agree with just inviting people to join your instance. Don’t overcomplicate it.

Aw neat! Thanks for sharing 😊

Aw neat! Cool to see Fediverse platforms growing and (hopefully) thriving ☺️

Thank you, that’s helpful!

Interesting, I guess maybe boost separately fetches thumbnails for link posts that are missing them…

Thats a super helpful site, thank you! If nothing else now I can remake my post from my .ee account and add the thumbnail manually

Interesting…

There are people on shitjustworks posting youtu.be links on !videos@lemmy.world that do have thumbnails, so whatever they’re doing doesn’t seem to have that problem

My .ee account has a field to put in a thumbnail URL, so other comments in this thread are kinda leading me to believe it may be a combination of instance version, and how the instance is configured

Interesting, so I guess maybe the reason shitjustsworks users posting on !videos@lemmy.world are showing up as thumbnails for me is because their instance is getting the thumbnail and that’s federating to me on .world

Okay so it seems like the only people getting thumbnails on !videos@lemmy.world are from shitjustworks.

No dice on using my .ee account though, that didn’t seem to result in a thumbnail either. But in the app I’m using, when on my .ee account there’s a field to put in a thumbnail URL which is interesting

Thats a very helpful response, thank you!

It seems like the only people getting thumbnails on !videos@lemmy.world are from shitjustworks (how fitting lol)

I tried again with a youtu.be link and unfortunately no dice, so it seems it might be an instance issue, I’m gonna go take a look at the videos comm and see if there’s anyone on .world who posted and got a thumbnail. I might also try again from my .ee account

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Most of them have it for me, but I just posted a video to the Souls-like comm and it doesn’t have one, which is really what I’m trying to fix :/