But this seems to claim it solves some practical problem with parties. I don’t know what that problems.

I understood that. I’m asking about the problem with parties that this helps people fix.

That would be the ideal for meeting new people, would it not?

I’ve read the whole thing and I feel like there’s something that’s just assumed that everyone understands.

What exactly is the problem? Why do we care how many people know each other or don’t? I’m so confused.

They aren’t behind any login or anything stopping it. So yah, I expect they’re already are being indexed.

I was using Neeva, a similar service. They shut down last month. People on the Neeva sub[…] Mentioned it. It’s quite a bit better than Neeva ever was.

Yes? An annoyance at worst

Yah. I wasn’t thinking of that as “privacy”, it’s kind of separate, but I can see related. But federating a delete shouldn’t be much more complicated than federating an add or edit. Mostly only an issue if an instance is defederated in between.

That seems pretty minor to me for less than a dozen images, but ok

I never thought of the right to be forgotten aspart of the right to privacy. They always seemed separate.

But technically federating a deletion shouldn’t be more complicated than federating an addition. It would make sense to have the option when deleting an account to nuke all posts as well. It might not be perfect if an instance is defederated in between, but it should be pretty good.

The first and third are just features that will almost certainly come eventually. No worries.

The second strikes me as a really strange expection for public social media. Social media is inherently not at all private. These are all public comments and posts intended for everyone in the world to read. If you have something you don’t want to be public, any social media is the last place to post it.

Mortonksalt linked to instructions.

They say you should be able to put the linked URI into your instance search and pull up the local version of the same post. That isn’t super clean, but it should work.

There isn’t a way to do exactly what you want.

Since you typically do this with your partner, the easiest solution would be for you both to be on the same instance. Then the gray chain link would work fine.

For other random people, use the colored federation star link. That goes to the home instance of the post.

Edit:
Another option is to paste the link to another instance into the search on yours. That should bring up the local instance version of the same post.

I don’t think it is. Loading multiple images in the body seems ideal.

I pay for:

• eMail, Cloud storage, VPN (Proton)
• Search (Kagi)
• Anything that takes away advertisements if I do. I loathe ads.

The chain link is what you want. That does exactly what you’re looking for. Not sure why the 404. Some kind of bug.

Let me put it another way.

When you want to bookmark the link, or open annother tab to view the thread yourself, you want use the grey chain link.

When you want to share a link publicly, or give it to some random you don’t know, the colored network link is probably more appropriate.

The grey chain icon, goes to the post or comment address on your instance.

The colored federation icon, goes to the home instance address of the community the post or comment is part of.

They don’t need to take over all of them. A dozen or two of the largest subs would be plenty. Those with less than a couple hundred thousand subscribers, don’t really matter much.

Absolutely not!

The attention based, advertisement business model is the “original sin” of the internet. If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product. You are what’s being sold. It changes all the incentives for the site. It’s why social media and news media have become so toxic and polarizing.

It’s why Reddit has made every one of it’s unpopular decisions. It made them, to create a better product for it’s customers (advertisers), not because it makes a better experience for us. If we want the best site for us, we need to be the customer. That means we need to be the ones who pay for it.

This is absolutely, undeniably a bad idea.