In my memory people considered them meh at best but I had some fun. I remember the DS version in particular being pretty dope.

I’m also watching the open book project.

If it just had epub support it’d be perfect

Having moderation work in an expected and consistent way is hardly the same thing as moderation tooling.

Seems to me the most likely explanation is they got caught and fixed it.

I honestly don’t remember but I do recall it’s way more of a process than it used to be

Pretty utilitarian on the ol thinkpad

The biggest problem with traditional forums is the fact that participation requires yet another account. This is the most significant thing that discord has going for it, nearly everybody already has a discord account. Federated forums mostly solve this issue tho

This is some toxic lemmy culture bullshit.

That is for the fediverse overall. Most of that comes from Mastodon. I personally have a little more faith in fedidb.org and their numbers. Also, worth noting the criteria for active users on Lemmy was recently changed to include votes, whereas before it only counted comments and posts.

Posted elsewhere: Really I mean anything more advanced than keyword filters and grouped feeds. Performance friendly NLP has come a long way since the advent of RSS

We don’t need to use that word here

Really I mean anything more advanced than keyword filters. Performance friendly NLP has come a long way since the advent of RSS

Does anybody have any recommendations for FOSS RSS readers with actual content surfacing features? So many RSS feeds are full of junk (this is particularly a problem with feeds with wildly disparate posting frequencies) and I’ve always felt they’d be a lot more useful if people were putting more effort into a modern way to sort through extremely dense feeds.

It’s not so crazy. Most people choose a DE for the defaults

I think one thing you’re missing here is that under such a system the defaults would likely become your locally hosted /c/books rather than the largest one. Even still you’d probably see posts from the largest books communities because /c/books@your_instance follows multiple /c/books@big_instance. Community blocking would likely still work as it currently does so any books communities that you were not fond of could still be blocked.

There is still the issue of where do you post and I think the answer looks something like:

• Post in /c/books@your_instance if you want to talk to your neighbors
• Post in /c/books@big_instances if you want to talk to everybody

Which is more or less how most people would decide where to post book stuff anyway.

I really don’t hate this idea from a lemmy centric UX perspective but how do you handle federation with other platforms?

Really like your protocol handlers contribution here. Seems tough to square with multiple accounts though.

Yup that’d be sick

Might just be one of those closed dependencies they have you opt into at install time

I think the major advantage with this model is that it gives those local communities a little more flavor while allowing the same functionality as the large communities (probably a good place to apply scaled sort). It also allows for a sort of curated multi-reddit functionality. Most importantly, it seems flexible and generalizable enough to allow for building advanced group features on all platforms, while still advancing the goal of inter-operability. A more straightforward multi-community functionality or the OP solution would have a lot of unanswered questions regarding federation. I’d be curious to see how kbin does it and whether that federates well. All that said, I think a lot of communities probably should be looking at negotiating a merge.