employees shouldn’t be thriving off of an almost mandatory donation, but should be fairly compensated in the first place

This seems callous and cruel. What are you even saying?

You can’t treat the root cause without addressing the symptoms first.

What? No. This is absolutely false.

Covid also highlighted the value of communally provided child care.

I feel like there’s a small group of people in the US that over emphasize the negative aspects of tips and never consider that the overarching culture in the US makes people making money as a tipped employee one of the few retail employees that get paid enough to thrive.

Number of lines vs number of words spoken vs length of time speaking probably would have a lot of variation in results.

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Your a victim of your success, it seems.

I didn’t realize kbin.social went offline.

How’s your project going? Are you finding any tradeoffs you made stand out as especially worthwhile or something you’d choose differently if you started over (perhaps something you’re planning to change)?

This suggestion seems to be a bit different from what you implemented on piedfed. I’m having trouble articulating it though. Something more like a feed of user defined subset of subscribed communities/topics.

AT protocol doesn’t federate the way ActivityPub does. There are separations between how your dat is stored, how it is aggregated, how it is filtered, and how it is displayed. Each part can be hosted separately and federate differently with separate instances of each part. The aggregation part is the thing that is most critical and there are probably some limited independent instances of that, but BlueSky has offered no support in facilitating this beyond making their peices AT Protocol compliant. You van take what BlueSky built and try to run your own instance of the aggregation service but they provide no documentation or support. You could also build your own, but that’s difficult and I don’t think anyone is trying.

So it is federated, but pretty much no one is interested in doing the work to federate with the primary infrastructure.

Yeah I’m not disappointed to see this instance close up.

Theirs is a “Loli/Shota/Cub Friendly” instance according to their sidebar. That’s why they aren’t federated with many instances.

The default UI is how most new users will experience interacting with lemmy instances at first. So it’s helpful to create a better first impression. To the extent that this is built into the project itself makes it easier for other UIs to be created and maintained too.

I believe that the Lemmy devs are working on a better url scheme for posts and comments as well. This will also make it less annoying without any browser extension, script, or other third part service.

I generally agree with you.

However, I want to encourge you to consider softening up your replies to people who you don’t have a strong prior social connection with. I’ve started making an effort to do that and I’ve found that I’m having more rewarding conversations now.

That’s very different from what I think people generally want by default, which is that when you’re on lemmy.world, it’s because that’s your home instance and any links to other instances would be automatically converted to the lenmy.world version of the post or comment by default (as long as the two instances are federated).

Anyone that wants more could find a browser plugin or script, but every new user with an account of any instance would have an initial experience that’s much less confusing and more consistent and pleasant.

It’s not implimented because the developers of lemmy have been prioritizing other issues and features. They say they’re open to code contributions, so someone would have to volunteer to do it.

Why would you need another site’s browser cookies?

Isn’t that the same issue with ActivityPub and the instances that host accounts and messages?

Since storage costs money, does it allow the admin to offer tiered access to higher quality storage?

Wouldn’t it be better (if doable) to take some cues on how actually email (and XMPP for that matter) works, and ask the user for the username and the password instead in one go?

I have to give my email app a lot more information than a username and password. So I’m not sure what you’re envisioning.