The problem is just when someone in the past said “you should join <forum x>!”, you were always able to just immediately go to forum x’s signup page and sign up. But if someone hears of Lemmy, and goes to join-lemmy.org, there is no way to go to a signup page directly.

People should probably stop saying “join Lemmy”, and instead link directly to the site/instance they suggest

User should create an account on one server

Mostly this. Some people might want a few accounts but those would be hardcore users.

the password/cookie should still work even when awaiting validation, password is set before the email is sent

maybe I’m misreading what you’re saying, but we already have this, works the same way as Reddit

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html

the Summit app does it too

Lemmy should have some sort of recommendation alhorithm.

https://quiblr.com/ is a Lemmy frontend that does this

https://quiblr.com/understanding_your_private_personalized_feed

Will Lemmy can become easy like Bluesky? Are there plans like that?

I’m not a Lemmy dev (well I’ve made a couple of small commits lol), but this type of question can be hard to answer from the inside of a project.

It would probably be easier to answer a question more like: “Do you plan to implement feature XYZ in order to be easier to use like Bluesky?”

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1883

the apps! the app support is really great for Lemmy

In theory I guess. But you’d need a ton of funding just to get the server power for that, and there’s no guarantee that users will switch over to your service. And if Bluesky starts turning bad then they could start blocking your instance. Also the users are much more valuable than the data. There’s lots of ways this could fail to pan out. The Fediverse is much more flexible to new instances joining.

maybe it would be simple to fork this source code and form your own community

The network effect makes this extremely difficult, even with the source code, it’s basically starting from scratch again.

I’m definitely happy I didn’t open Lemmy until I got home from work today

This is one reason why I never use expanded card views and only used the condensed list views where I have to click a thumbnail to expand lol

Yes the post belongs to the user and the user’s instance. The community basically just boosts/retweets the post.

You hacked a government system from your home connection?

It’s universally stupid, man! https://youtu.be/ADfL9g3X-DA?si=Q6qHAkQZhToVHX9a

“or else”

https://youtu.be/dlyMZNURdmc?si=15hACE--mnt369oq

Very nice to see the fix for the spoiler bottom margin, I have been inserting line breaks after spoilers to alleviate that issue for quite some time.

I’ve used

(it’s just a bunch of hyphens that gets rendered as a line) and that works well

apparently Backblaze Desktop doesn’t support Linux.

I haven’t tried it, but apparently if you do a mapped network drive in Windows then BackBlaze will let you back it up as normal.

The default Lemmy-UI (website), IDK about others

OP please edit your post to put the link in correctly https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/google-removes-pledge-to-not-use-ai-for-weapons-from-website/

Yeah it depends on the app, they don’t all do it. Boost shows cross posts, but doesn’t merge them.