Very interesting, thanks!

Browser choice is probably going to make just as much difference as distro choice. Modern browsers kinda need at least 1 GB to be usable, ideally more. Depends what you do with it of course.

Try Pale Moon, Falkon and Konqueror.

I no longer care if the blackouts change reddit or not. Viva la fediverse!

If we knew how hard things were going to be (or how long they would take!), we wouldn’t attempt the task. Being a bit deluded about how smart we are is helpful for this.

Plus, there is a lot of autism in IT which sometimes makes people seem like arrogant dickheads even if they aren’t.

Try this https://userstyles.world/style/10301/better-lemmy

Don’t forget to buy thermal paste!

There is only one admin and it is also the only kbin developer.

Kbin is not ready, I’m sad to say.

There are hardly any experienced Rust developers. It’s going to be a big problem.

Also try these https://userstyles.world/search?q=lemmy

No, the whole thing is too much like work. The CSS has no license so anyone is free to rip it off and use it - someone who has already set up their lemmy development environment would be able to incorporate this CSS in a few minutes.

Plus I’m sure the devs are frantically dealing with far more important issues to do with scaling, spam and moderation so they won’t get to my PR for months. This user script approach gets a result out there immediately.

You need a browser extension. On Firefox it’s called “Stylus”. Once you’ve installed that, go to https://userstyles.world/style/10301 and click the ‘install’ button.

I’m not sure what the equivalent Chrome extension is but userstyles.world will tell you.

If you published an Apache guide I’m sure it would be popular.

If you put “[email protected]” into the search (magnifying glass in the top right) then you’ll see a bunch of posts appear from that community.

Just above the list of search results is a link saying “<icon> [email protected] - 29 subscribers”. It is not very obvious or highlighted in any way. Lemmy should fix this.

Click on that and the contents of that community will be displayed - crucially, it’ll be displayed by your instance. You haven’t gone to lemmy.ml, you’re still on your home instance (check the address bar of your browser).

In the top right there is a nice big “Subscribe” button. Click it.

UFOs. Seriously.

Check out https://kbin.social.

IMO the UI of Kbin is much better, although I really miss the ‘collapse thread’ function. That’s a deal-breaker for me.