Mane25

As a Fedora Silverblue user, if I'm understanding your question, using toolbox run you don't have to enter a toolbox to run a command from it, then I just alias my most commonly used commands to avoid having to keep typing it.

Needs more context, if it's a school day and it's in the sun I don't see the problem with taking advantage of it?

I get that he may be under pressure to make unpopular decisions, but I still can't believe that he invited the whole of Reddit to an AMA and then just answered 14 questions - as if that wouldn't turn out to be the PR disaster it was. Trying to think of a rational explanation beyond "just incompetent" is really hard after that - unless he has some hidden agenda that involves sabotaging Reddit. There's surely no way he couldn't have known that AMA would be a disaster.

A relatively small thing: the 500-comment viewing limit for normal accounts. So many times on Reddit I've been put off engaging with posts with 500+ comments knowing that nobody would see it. It's stupid because comments are just text and unless the software design is absolutely terrible then simple text comments shouldn't take up bandwidth at all.

I don't dislike the idea that there could be multiple similar communities (for example Linux communities) on different instances. That way if you have beef with one you could sign up to another; in a non-ideal world that strikes me as healthier than having one to rule them all and lots of people bitter about it. I think it's best to leave it to sort itself out organically.

Oh definitely. Also if you didn't like the moderation or site policies you could just make your own forum. I'm sure it's a bit of a rose-tinted view but those were the good-old days for me.

In my mind, it only needs to be a fraction of the size of Reddit to be potentially successful. I've been using online forums since the 90s, back in the day there were some forums with great long-lasting communities that had only a couple of dozen regular members. Sometimes a smaller forum is better than a larger one. Granted it's different since forums generally specialised in one topic, but don't forget the days where you didn't need to be a huge all-encompassing platform to be successful, especially when you're not trying to make money from it.

Since it is part of the federation, though, Lemmy users can subscribe to kbin communities (called magazines) and vice versa.

How does one do that?

I've tried it out before but never seriously attempted to engage with it. I'm intending on using the downtime of the Reddit blackout, and the recent spike in interest, to give it a fair go and see.

I was unaware of being able to comment on Lemmy posts with a Mastodon account.

Thanks for your reply. I feel like I 90% get the concept of federalisation, and it's very interesting. Just from a purely user experience point of view (because this is what was asked), I've already had several times where I've ended up on the "wrong" instance without realising it. I guess it partly takes getting used to. My experience has been more positive than negative overall though.

Interface is better than "new" Reddit, not as good as old Reddit + RES.

Also: if I click on a link on another instance (for example https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy when I'm signed in on lemmy.world), I'm not signed in to lemmy.ml so I have to manually search for it in lemmy.world to post there - is there a common solution to that?

Kind of cautiously optimistic at this stage, Reddit has been going steeply downhill for the last few years - if the "blackout" does nothing for Reddit then maybe it could succeed in drawing attention to alternatives.