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One thing I haven’t seen mentioned yet is that Mbin supports custom magazine/community CSS like Old Reddit did. Don’t think it’s federated currently though, so it’s local only. There’s also the ability to follow users and boost (retweet) content, which Lemmy lacks.

Judging by recent posts by Piefed’s creator, they seem to be planning to add end-to-end encryption and ephemeral content.

They do have a dedicated “Crawler” page.

And they do mention there that they use a website crawler for their Developer Tools and Network features.

I know you’re a Piefed developer, so you probably know what’s possible and what’s not better than me. But honestly, the encryption part makes me think you probably want a new protocol designed with that in mind from the start. In my opinion, it’s too destructive for compatibility with other ActivityPub software and instances running older versions of them especially.

Combating spam despite the simplified account creation will probably require the implementation of something like Reddit’s karma system. Which isn’t a very popular idea I think.

Regarding the ephemeral content… please don’t. It might sound cool on paper, but it just adds FOMO. We shouldn’t promote doomscrolling and brainrot with the addition of features which require you to quickly scroll through shit to not miss out on posts that disappear after a timer has passed.

And the comments here about trading California for Greenland have some strong “I’ll let you rape her if you let me rape your daughter” vibes… in my opinion.

There’s definitely still a bunch of areas the fediverse could be improved in, yeah.

I thought one of the advantages of the Fediverse was to have one account but access to many services. Is this possible just not common?

It’s a misunderstanding by you. It’s not that you have one account on one website and can login on all the others with it. Rather, you can look at content and interact with users from other websites from your home one.

Like, it’s really a lot like Email. If you’re signed up with Gmail, you can freely send emails to users signed up with other email providers. But you can’t just go to Outlook’s online version and log in with your Gmail account. The same applies to the fediverse.

That said, if your goal is to interact with the rest of the fediverse, you’re probably better off switching to Mbin. Lemmy doesn’t really care about anything that’s not a Reddit-like.

I think it’s fine to use unique platform features like this, but if you’re actually using this actively, be aware that not everyone will see your titles as you intended them. It’s only Lemmy users that can see it actually render “properly”, everyone else just sees the plaintext Markdown symbols.

Look at the instance OP is from, it’s not one of the big twitter knockoffs.

Their target audience is Mastodon users though, not Lemmy. And Mastodon requires hashtags for discovery. OP is just writing their post in a way that it can be found by Mastodon users.

@mho@social.heise.de

Hello from kbin.earth (mbin), I can see the post in the microblog feed. Upvoted and boosted.

@woelkchen@lemmy.world @mho@social.heise.de

So this is a test post you ask users to repost?

I think you misunderstood the request to “share” there. They’re most likely talking about boosts, Mastodon’s version of Twitter’s retweets. Lemmy, I think, doesn’t implement boosts. So it makes sense you would interpret it differently from the rest of the fediverse.

Basically, this isn’t a call to repost. It’s essentially just asking to upvote and boost and OP can then see from where those interactions came.

why should I not remove this from !fediverse?

It’s on topic and your community has no rule against test/experimental posts.

Your community might want some additional rules if these kinds of posts are undesired. Like a low effort rule maybe. Or a rule against posts asking for upvotes and similar actions. A quick look at lemmy.world’s site-wide rules didn’t look like such a rule is there.

Did they ever actually specify what they meant with that promise?

I mean, datapacks ARE a modding API. Not the kind we would have liked to see, but if a modding api is all they promised, then they did deliver on that.
It’s called data-driven modding, and not exactly a rare approach among official modding APIs.