Basically: yes the dropdown menu appears, just as for usernames, but if you choose the item from the dropdown that you see, the Lemmy UI will do the wrong thing. My first link was made using the dropdown, while my second ignored the dropdown and just used the exclamation mark. Notice how my first link takes you to an entirely different instance? But the second link goes to the version of that community while keeping you on your same instance.

Jumping in, but I’m very curious about this. I’ve never seen the dropdown menu not create “!community@instance.org” links.

I am now taking my discussion.online alt to see, and with !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca, created from the dropdown, the link works as expected.

How do you manage to get harcoded links from the dropdown?

I skimmed through it, it’s actually a decent article.

No of course not but I subscribe to the original Reddiquette philosophy. Downvotes arne’t for disagreement. They were originally a form of user-moderation to stop spam. Unfortunately about a decade ago after the Digg exodus the users of Reddit forgot that original usage and so you’d end up being downvoted and not knowing why. It doesn’t foster debate or discussion. It’s a cheap way to snipe someone down without being responsible or engaging them.

Very true, and that’s why I’m more and more inclined to use an instance without downvotes. With the report button available, downvotes just seem like a shortcut for hivemind.

Thank you for your insight. I feel like AP cares more about the community, while nostr is about the individual.

Different kind of people will choose different approaches

I agree. I could see Beehaw survive longer than most other Lemmy instances, their community feeling is much stronger.

Lemmy’s code isn’t that easy to get into, otherwise there would be much more contributors to it.

The third biggest contributor after the two main devs has 59 commits.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/graphs/contributors?from=2019-02-10&to=2024-02-06&type=c

Nice tutorial

Hello guys, just wanted to chime in and say that it’s good to see you three explain things in a calm manner in this thread. Nice to see you around.

Have you tried reaching out to them to talk to them about Lemmy?

Your instance is still in 18.5

True, forgot about that (luckily I woke up after it happened)

will need more deep searches.

To be fair, it doesn’t take that much to create an account on one instance and then see if it works for you. I must have more than ten alts on several platforms

Sad to hear. I don’t read news community, that’s why I didn’t see it

Any example of badly moderated communities? Asking because I didn’t notice anything special.

Mbin has both Reddit and Twitter aspects bundled in.

I would suggest to find an instance in your mother language, it’s the easiest way to find content in that language. When I want to see Spanish content, I go to masto.es. Some other languages use other platforms (usually Misskey forks)

I think that blocklist will stay very user-dependent, except for obvious spam instances which should be blocked at the instance level. But we’ll see how it goes.

Is that you? https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4422

Thank you very much for sharing, I’ll keep an eye on it.

To be fair, Piefed uses Lemmy communities and comments, it’s almost just another interface.

The reputation is indeed interesting, example in this thread with warnings “low reputation, beware!”: https://piefed.social/post/27070#post_replies