Honestly it doesn’t seem like there’s a lot of risk with giving it a try. If it doesn’t work out, you can always buy regular commercially-available keycaps later.

You mentioned the potential of stems breaking off in the switch. I kinda doubt that’s terribly likely. (If they break off, I’d think the chunks that broke off would be big enough that they wouldn’t end up in the mechanism of the switch and could just be shaken out or retrieved with needle-nose tweezers.) That’s just speculation on my part, but I have plans to print myself some self-designed keycaps (and a self-designed keyboard base, in fact) at some point out of PLA and I’m not terribly concerned about that potential issue. I also don’t really mind buying more keycaps later if I need to, though.

3D-printed keycaps can also be replaced easily. If you’re concerned about them breaking, you might want to print some extras up front so you don’t have to wait for a print to finish before you can use your keyboard again. (And so you don’t have to try to use it with one keycap missing. Lol.)

I honestly don’t know what you mean by any of these. What do you mean by “tabs”? What “tags” do usernames have on them? What do you mean by “the downvotes have disappeared?”

Bean, stroganoff, and poop-holding cards when?

Also, Xavier: Renegade Angel. And… are acorns the new thing or am I missing something?

!lostlemmings@lemmy.world ?

Shit. I hadn’t even heard that. That’s insidious. Makes perfect sense for Meta.

Just ask your instance’s admins not to federate with threads. If they federate anyway, consider switching instances.

SEO’s a dark art.

In general, the more other pages (and the more highly-ranked pages) link to a page, the higher that page will show up in Google. But that’s also quite an oversimplification. (I don’t know that the rules Google uses for deciding how to rank pages in search results are even public info.

I don’t think there’s much any one person (even the owner) of a site can do to make a site show up higher in Google. The owner of a site can make smart decisions about how to ensure the site gets users coming back and posting links on social media and such, but ultimately the way a page/site gets to show up in more Google searches is by being popular.

My advice: don’t focus on Google or SEO or anything. Focus on fostering a community that’s worth coming back to and worth linking to.

OP is the kind of person who hangs signs above big red buttons saying “do not press.” Did they really intend for this post to be ignored or are tehy using reverse psychology. We may never know.

I wrote my own VTT. Does that count?