I think Mastodon is very far from standard. Way I hear it from the developers, it's lemmy that is following the Apub standard. But I will disclaim that I'm not an expert to judge either way.
As for the posts outside communities? That makes sense lemmy-wise I think. Where would those posts be? But it doesn't make sense for Discourse, since they are indeed separated into topics.
Why doesn't discourse simply make their different topics into communities is the question
Let's say you find a year old discussion, you don't bother to read 120 pages, so you just ask your question at the end. If you're lucky enough not to be in a forum that won't flame you for necroing and not searching, you're given a link to a page. You visit that page but don't find the answer. Then ask again. Maybe this time you get a correct link, or maybe you get flamed this time.
See how it's easy to make hypotheticals? Not to disrespect your preferences, but this approach is downright inane. What you'e describing is working despite the software, not because of it. As others mentioned in this thread, you get the exact opposite reactions to another forum about automobiles.
You know what is superior to this? Having a lemmy community about this one motorcycle model, with an FAQ or wiki on the side. People can ask a question as a new thread, and guess what, people can link them to a previously answered thread, just like they would link them to a specific page in your gigathread. Nothing functionally changes here. The lack of threading or sorting by new comments doesn't change the experience. It's the willingness to be nice to newbies that matters.
What you're describing is simply changing a lemmy community into a single thread in a bbforum. It is an objectively worse scenario.
In lemmy you start with a generic topic. Say, automobiles. If it starts getting too busy, you start two new communities, cars and motorcycles, if those get too busy, you expand to brands and models. Each of them nicely organized and easily searchable by titles.
What I see here is a community that coalesced around an old forum software and did the best it could. Unlike most others, it happened to have the right people to make the best of it and find a working system with what they got. But again, it's not the software, it's the people, which is proven by so many similar communities in similar software just failing miserable instead.
I would argue that this community would work much better with a software much better suited for it.
I'm not upset, mate. I'm just perplexed why you're confidently making statements which directly contract the article and appear as if you didn't read it. But you do you.
Lemmy already has both of those sorting options built in
I’m not a researcher, but I was there from the start and I saw the same process play out multiple times in the old forums I used to be in. Accessibility and convenience won.
...how?
Article claims the forums were expensive and difficult to maintain
Not to mention that the article never even mentions "expensive". Wait, you fed it to an LLM and asked for a summary, didn't you?
It had post voting, but no comment voting.
Doesn't your screenshot show the opposite?
More or less I would argue that the article is missing convenience as a driving factor.
Did you...uh...read the article?
Ask a question and people will tell you what page to look at if you can’t find it, post something that has already been talked about and they’ll refer you to the page where people talked about it.
You are relying on some random people being around to serve as your search engine. Cmon. You can do the same thing here with megathreads and wikis. Hell you can also ask around on megathreads and people will link you. Nothing you describe here is unique to forums.
Necroing in order to continue talking about something and build on the base already established is much better than the constant repost and knowledge reset we see on here where the same questions are asked again and again and again and people need to explain the same things again and again and again.
The same happened in forums. Even in forums with megathreads like these, people asked the same question again and again. This is a matter of culture, not of software. You just happened to find a forum with a good culture and assumed it's the result of the software.
Just build that community here and you have the same results AND federation with other topics if needed.
Also I lowkey find the expectation that you rely on people with thousands of bookmarks to be around to point you to a page in one gigathread to be quite disturbing.
slashdot (community topics + threads) >
slashdot ha~~d~~s voting though. In fact I wish we had the same sort of votes slashdot had. up/down votes are so limited :(
I can't disagree enough. There was little knowledge accumulation in oldschool forums either. There were constant arguments about thread necromancy and people not searching before asking. It sounds like you're describing a parallel idyllic universe.
This kind of knowledge repository is why were have megathreads and/or attached wikis.
Regardless of that, if you really wanted to run a lemmy instance like that, you can do that right now. You can set up a lemmy instance where you default to sorting everything by "New Comments" and discussions as "Chat" and you get an identical model to old school forums. Hell, as long as you find a good amount of like-minded folks and you all agree to sort the same way, you can build up your "knowledge accumulation" inside the existing lemmy instances and communities.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/788923
Hey everyone, today I sadly woke up to a distressing email by my provider, telling me that "Waves Audio Ltd" (
http://waves.com) sent them a takedown request about a guide posted to crack their app. This is complete bullshit of course, but the provider threatened to shut off my whole IP address. For now I've taken down the post, but I've also initiated measures to avoid this in the future.As such, we've now moved this site to be hosted by njal.la which is privacy focused and has a ton of experience handling such issues. Let me know if you notice anything weird during the transition period.
However they are significantly more expensive! As such I've had to adjust our server costs for the next 6 months, and therefore our Ko-fi goal has been re-opened. Please consider donating to ensure this site can survive these particular gray waters we're sailing.
I aim to ensure we are strictly legal, but these companies do not care about the law because they have enough money to bully people.
Remember, do not post direct links and use base64 encoding for any potentially spicy links you post!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/543897
Prompt: the cold dark place filled with sadness and despair of the #Linux Kernel, global illumination, digital painting
Style: featured
You can vote for the best image here: https://sigmoid.social/@stablehorde_generator/110689123364494326
I'm already loving the quality of posts and discussions I'm seeing here. There's a reason why we're consistently in the Top 10 of all lemmy communities!
With all the reddit 3rd party apps shutting down today (RiP Sync) I expect to see a big influx of users. And our new user application inbox is overflowing as well. I hope y'all will put the new blood through the steps!
Keep up the great content mates!
It hasn't even been a week, y'all!
I wonder who's left back at "Boolicker's Cove". :D
I'm also going viral on mastodon. WTF is going on?! :D
A fellow mod informed me that about it as I was laying in bed. Reddit sent a message to the mod team and after 1 hour demoded me. I didn't even had time to see it, never-mind respond to it.
Looks like we rattled reddit enough to start shooting. There goes all that fancy talk about our protest not affecting them much.
Just FYI for now. It's late here so I'll see how we proceed tomorrow.
Incredible growth. just goes to show how little we needed to be in Reddit.
For reference: https://browse.feddit.de/
The original /r/piracy was purposefully gimped because Reddit received DMCAs for any random thing and didn't even bother to follow up. Since we're in new waters, I want things to be a bit more relaxed, but there's a limit on how relaxed we can be, without starting to get lawsuits, which I will not be able to fight off. I also host other communities and interests which might cause me headaches.
Remember, this is a hobby project (and none of you scurvy dogs are donating) :D
So here are some piracy-related ground rules for he whole of lemmy.dbzer0.com as of today
All in all, this lemmy is supposed to be Pirate-allied, but not a direct link repository. I literally cannot handle that legal risk at the moment. I hope you all understand the realities of our situation. As much as we can argue that a link to a file is not infringing, the Cartel's legal fund is bottomless, and all I have is a tinsy-tiny treasure chest under my birdbath.
If any pirate communites need to migrate after this, I understand. I would still suggest you keep them around as the "safe" community, and post your link aggregation on a lemmy instance which can handle the eye of sauron. This way you get both a stable community and account, and your links via fediverse. Win-win.
Benned and Jerrys!