leetnewb

Love the trellis.

I'm not much of a programmer and my free time is too limited to move quickly, but the functionality looks possible based on the published frontend API. Someone will almost certainly beat me to it, but I am hoping to write a browser extension that replaces the blue "You are not logged in..." boilerplate text about how to subscribe to a remote community with a subscribe button that does the dirty work in the background for you.

I don't think Reddit will die and agree that the majority will return. I will browse my favored communities in both and favor participating here. That said, the Lemmy universe has been in rapid expansion for 2 weeks. It's premature to judge it for the fragmentation of communities at this stage. I strongly suspect the ergonomics of finding and subscribing to a community you want will improv over the next six months.

You can rss instances, but I don't think that is possible across all instances.

Why is php a bad thing in this case? It seems like exactly the kind of application that php is well suited for. Plus there's the maturity of php's major frameworks. While I'm not saying Rust is necessarily bad for building web applications, it's web frameworks must be less mature and battle tested. Plus, it seems like a lower bar to get community dev contributions for a php project than rust.

There certainly seem to be topics I track where forum activity outpaces Reddit. Haven't explored Discord for the purpose. I would like to see communities emerge or move to something on the activitypub - lemmy devs made a forum frontend (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB). The potential seems to be there to provide a forum interface/experience that federates.

I like your ranking. I sit in a couple of xmpp muc for xmpp client projects, but there are virtually no public non-xmpp related xmpp rooms. But doesn't really cost anything to start one I suppose.

Small servers also tend to disappear, though. As far as I know, federated content simply goes away when the server does.

I don't use SimpleX, but it's hard to argue against a well developed open source privacy focused messaging app. There are a million "privacy-focused" messengers out there with various flaws around security or sustainability. Matrix is great but the goals seem a little different. Plus, it wasn't that long ago that Matrix was struggling to find funding.

What's your xmpp server of choice?

Ah, that answers an important question I had - wasn't sure whether to give it oxygen. But sealing it up should keep the mosquito population at bay. Very much looking forward to it.

Out of curiosity, do you ever make worm tea from castings? Sounds like no with your flow.

Too short of a season in worm temp ranges for me unfortunately. My current ideas in various stages of testing (and testing list formatting here):

1. Bokashi - can't seem to get it to ferment and not rot. Also doesn't come out as finished compost, but good to mix into soil or worm bin to finish.
2. Fish - have tilapia, but would like something that attacks veggies more voraciously. Maybe pacu or giant gourami, but I don't have an adequate setup sized for either. Anyway, waste veggies -> fish -> nitrate water and solids removal for gardens and/or aquaponic grow beds.
3. Throw yard weeds and kitchen organic waste into a tub with water, let it sit for a couple of weeks, and use the water as fertilizer (I think it's called JADAM?). Getting a 55 gallon drum to start that experiment at the end of June.