To me, direct link means a link that will send me directly to the posts on their instance (i.e. a direct link to the Star Trek website will be https://startrek.website, not https://myinstance/c/[email protected]).
Unless I'm somehow misunderstanding what direct link means here, which I might be? It seems more intuitive to me that the bang syntax would keep you inside your instance, not leave it.
And yeah, using ! is known as bang when used in this sort of context!
It doesn't have visbility of all instances in existence, as this is impossible. What it will do is crawl the "known fediverse", which is done by crawling known instances and then crawling known instances to those known instances, and so on.
Basically, the Fediverse is just separate websites talking to each other, there is no actual fediverse entity so to speak.
For what it's worth, seems the bang syntax actually makes a direct link (makes people leave their instance), whereas the links you have as "direct links" (looks like /c/ syntax in the source) keep you inside your instance.
For example, here's the Trekkie community:
Bang (!) syntax: [email protected]
/c/ syntax: Star Trek (written as [Star Trek](/c/[email protected]) not sure if there's a way to autogenerate this)
The thing is, due to how federation works, this cannot work. Federation is not an automatic thing that happens to instances; instances can only know about other instances if they send a request to another instance or vice versa, to discover them.
The closest thing to a solution will always be things like https://browse.feddit.de, or some implementation of opt-in relays, like the microblogging platforms use.
While this is true, the headline is deliberately provocative and leaves out all the nuance so it works as rage bait, and potentially to "scare" people into wanting to go back into the office.
Most people don't read articles, unfortunately.
Well, this didn't age well, supposedly the company (Dreams) came to my house around 08:30, but I didn't hear any sort of knocking, and supposedly they also phoned me to try and get my attention and it went straight to voicemail - which makes no sense, because my phone was not off and I got a text around the same time from them saying my delivery had failed!
Managed to get a full refund on the whole thing, as their next delivery slot was 1st July which I wasn't waiting for, and begrudgingly had to get a mattress from Amazon if I wanted a new one this weekend.
Getting a new mattress delivered today - actually so excited for this because my current one has got to a stage where the springs are starting to come up through the surface which stabs me whenever I lay in the "wrong place" in bed.
So ready for cozy sleep again.
I'm hoping to finally get on top of my housework and chores this weekend - the weather has been insufferable all week and I haven't had the motivation to do anything in the house and things are piling up.
Lol, right? I found it so weird when I saw that, the support network is the reasoning a lot of subs used to open, maybe they figured it would make them look better?
From reading the blackout plans post posted by the mods about 12 hours before the privating of the community, the main issues people had was that they didn't want to make yet another account for yet another platform.
This place is quiet not because /r/Warframe was mostly bots, but people just don't want to invest in more platforms / apps unless they feel there's an incentive for them to do so.
Of course, investing in the Fediverse platforms is the logical conclusion to all the issues with the big platforms, but there needs to be some sort of positive value for people to want to invest in something else, like a big community, or extra features (unfortunately the perks for decentralisation are not features to most people), and right now other platforms don't offer that, and I'm not so sure they ever will, as the weight of the huge platforms gives them more power to keep offering more and more value over competitors, due to the tendency towards monopoly in capitalistic systems.
To answer the question directly: I don't think /r/Warframe should come back, as I think a lot of people are resisting posting here because they expect /r/Warframe to come back and will just wait it out, but after enough time goes by, they'll feel they're missing out by not being here.
Edit: My comment appears not to be federating to dormi.zone, maybe editing will make it try again?
Note that setting up a Revolt instance means it will literally only be you that you can talk to, and others that sign up on your instance.
Revolt is not federated (and most likely never will be). You might be aware of this though, but it isn't like Lemmy or Mastodon at all.
That figure includes all known users in the federation with Lemmy. The users on kbin instances is a lot less, I'm not sure how to check that though myself.