Does it need to be better? Can people just share things they find interesting or that they made?

Then go complain somewhere else, you asked for an explanation of how it works.

It’s because it’s JSON-LD.

I don’t understand the comment. It’s like calling the fact that firstName is in the JSON {"firstName": "Bob"} “over engineered bullshit” when they should’ve made some application specific protocol instead of using JSON. ActivityStreams and ActivityPub are built on top of JSON-LD to utilize existing libraries to represent linked data (that’s what the LD is). To specify what schemas are used there is a “context” field. There are other schemas as well. Take a look at https://schema.org/ to see them.

If it feels over engineered it’s because it’s meant to be able to represent a wide variety of types of social media and typical interactions with them. I seriously doubt Mastodon (micro blogging) and Lemmy (link aggregation forum) would be able to interact easily if they weren’t “over engineered”.

Because it is JSON-LD and that’s how JSON-LD works. It’s an extensible format. Similar to XML namespaces.

It helps when you understand that you only ever directly interact with your instance.

• Alice posts to A (in some community hosted on B)
• B is federated with A so will eventually receive the post
• C is federated with B so will eventually get the post

I view the focus on Lemmy’s political opinions as a weakness for attracting new users.

I just dumped my obsidian workspace into a folder synced by Google Drive.

ACID go brrr

Relevant comment chain: https://programming.dev/comment/12187727

Even Bluesky is limiting video uploads heavily. And it’s centralized. (As far as I understand.)

No, you’ve never been able to sign into different fediverse instances with your account (to my knowledge). You can interact with other instances through yours, yes, but you don’t go to the others and sign in.

Yessss this program is amazing. One of the few things I’ve donated to.

If you see unflagged NSFW content just report it and say “unflagged NSFW content.” People on your instance and the community’s instance will get the report. This is nice so that even if your instance has more strict rules it can still handle the problem if the community’s instance doesn’t want to.

There might be, the Lemmy REST API is not super well documented.

It’s possible it’s non standard, I believe it is a Play Store policy to be able to report all forms of user generated content.

Dikestra

I see an option to report a user via their profile page in Jerboa.

I love love love that Fossil is a single executable.

All in all, the version control wars have ended and git has won. Mercurial is another one I sort of wanna try just to see what it’s like.

Re: rebasing, I think squashing / rebasing (in place of merging) is bad but I am also one of the few people I know who tries to make a good history with good commit messages prior to opening a pull request by using interactive rebasing. (This topic is confusing to talk about because I have to say “I don’t rebase, instead o rebase” which can be confusing.)

I think I looked into this before and it lacked a feature, but I don’t remember what it was. I might be getting it mixed up with another tool. There were a lot of tools that almost worked but were focused on making books with ordered pages rather than a tree. I think gitbook was one.

For folks interested in following in my footsteps, eleventy didn’t fit because it couldn’t convert relative links to markdown files to relative HTML links to the HTML files (out of the box, probably possible with plugins).

This just feels like such an obvious thing there would be a tool for but I can’t find one. Even most editors that render Markdown as a preview can do this out of the box.