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Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by modzu »

samtho wrote: post #126
toomuchtodo wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you can enumerate all of the threads in a subreddit, each thread is a blob of JSON when you tack `.json` on to the end. Tangentially, https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/12ucc9z/downlo... and https://old.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/c93rdt/how_do_i_... A sibling comment mentions ArchiveTeam, which ends up in the Wayback Machine. Some work to be done around tools to make that corpus more readily availa…

Crawling is indirect. This isn’t a protocol like IMAP where each object exists inherently as specified by the protocol. The idea of a “thread” or “user” does not exist in HTTP, only “documents” do. Everything at this layer is made up by (and at the disposal of) the operator and is not standardized.

lets take a moment to remember that reddit was cofounded by the inventor of rss.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by mikemallon99 »

What does it mean for r/startrek to migrate to lemmy, would that just be the moderators? To me it seems like just an outspoken group of people from the subreddit are moving to lemmy, but my guess is most people would prefer to stay on Reddit.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by btw0 »

graypegg wrote: post #3

What are the current solutions for discoverability in Lemmy? Having a tombstone on Reddit pointing people towards a specific instance is good but it’s still hard to be the definitive community when the namespace isn’t as restricted any more. Maybe that’s better?

https://redditmigration.com

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by malermeister »

kgwxd wrote: post #149
malermeister wrote: post #94

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> (and don't accidentally follow a link to another instance where your startrek.website login won't work) I feel like there really needs to be a browser extension that does the appropriate redirects to make this problem go away. It's a really bad UX rn.

If a the only way to fix a usability problem is via browser extension, the entire concept should have been left on the cutting room floor.

I think it's a small price to pay for removing a single point of failure, such as a greedy CEO.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by malermeister »

moskie wrote: post #173
Goronmon wrote: post #172

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Subscribe to the communities you want on lemmy.ml from your account on lemmy.world?

Ok, I've done that, but it involved switching away from my tab on lemmyverse.net, going to lemmy.world in a different tab, and manually searching for what I found on lemmyverse. Is there an intended workflow that involves clicking something on a result I see on lemmyverse.net? edit: i've just now noticed that I can click the label under the title to copy the text that I can then paste into lemmy.world search. There s…

I had the same idea re browser extension, just haven't found the motivation to build it yet.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by rakoo »

moskie wrote: post #173
Goronmon wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Subscribe to the communities you want on lemmy.ml from your account on lemmy.world?

Ok, I've done that, but it involved switching away from my tab on lemmyverse.net, going to lemmy.world in a different tab, and manually searching for what I found on lemmyverse. Is there an intended workflow that involves clicking something on a result I see on lemmyverse.net? edit: i've just now noticed that I can click the label under the title to copy the text that I can then paste into lemmy.world search. There s…

The problem is that you don't know if the link you're clicking on is a lemmy link or not.

We are slowly approaching the limits of web browsing, where the document and the application are intertwined. We are limited by the tools at hand, unfortunately.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by jrm4 »

krapp wrote: post #160
jrm4 wrote: post #156

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The whole damn point of the internet is that the "library" never ever ever actually MUST be "owned."

Since when? Every website on every server going back to the very first one at CERN has been owned by someone.

Seems like it should be relatively clear that when I say "owned" here, I mean "strongly subject to the whims of a possibly capricious owner."

Like, sure, university libraries are "owned" by the school, but one can generally reliably treat them as "public."

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by wise0wl »

Spivak wrote: post #38

HN being endlessly contrarian is really weird sometimes. You are in real-time witnessing the rebirth of community hosted and run forums. The thing HN has been lamenting the death of forever. This isn't some "migrate from walled garden A to walled garden B", this is the community setting up new-age phpBB except it's federated and interoperates with any and all ActivityPub. You can subscribe to /r/startrek from your Tw…

I hope that it will work. I loved the forum days---there was a real sense of community there that does not exist on Reddit except for some very small subs.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by fsflover »

Zetice wrote: post #134
fsflover wrote: post #109

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> The mods don't own the subreddit. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36341470

The mods of Reddit are 100% replaceable, and not comparable to HN moderation, mainly because HN pays dang and he is specifically accountable for maintaining the site. If dang did poorly enough for long enough, he'd be replaced (or they'd shut HN down). Also, there isn't nearly as much special about HN as some people seem to think. It's prone to every one of the same issues Reddit has, the incentives are just aligned…

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36356957

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by sleepybrett »

How exactly does lemmy work with federation? (I'm assuming lemmy outwardly presents itself as esentaially reddit.)

I 'host' a community on my lemmy instance? People can submit 'stories' for my community if it's problematic I can essentially refuse that story? If someone comments on one of those stories, do I as a community admin/owner can remove that comment? If there is a shithead user who's account belongs to another lemmy instance I assume I can ban them from interacting with any content hosted in my community, same with another lemmy server out there if there is a whole server of shitheads?

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