ReactOS is cloning NT, so the 2000 part of that is correct.

95/98/98se/ME are completely different beasts, even if they happen to share the same GUI.

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I don’t recall exactly, but it’s more like days rather than hours. At some point the instances will mark you as down, and then stop trying to federate with you, so there’s a hard limit but it’s fairly generous and not especially aggressive.

I found the PR for the queue, and it mentions retries but doesn’t seem to mention exact timing, at least to my quick read. ( https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3605 )

Yeah. There’s a retry queue, which does expire after a certain time period, but for a short outage that’s how it’d work.

Ignore and move on.

Literally the solution to every single ‘THERE IS SOMETHING I DISLIKE ABOUT LEMMY AND THUS YOU SHOULD ALL ACCOMODATE ME!’ post.

If you don’t like someone’s shit, block them. There’s not a limit of how many people who make you upset you can block, so go hog wild.

Hey Elon! Do it! You want to! You have the money!

Buy Reddit!

(It’d be the funniest damn thing.)

I’d argue perhaps the opposite: if you want full moderation and admin freedom, running it on your own instance is the only way to do it.

If you run it on someone else’s server, you’re subject to someone else’s rules and whims.

Granted, I have zero reason to think the admins of any of those listed instances would do anything objectionable, but that’s today: who knows what happens six months or a year or two years from now.

Though, as soon as you start adding stuff to your personal instance, you’re biting off more maintenance and babysitting since you assumably want your stuff to be up 100% of the time to serve your communities, so that’s certainly something to consider.

Why are you assuming a desktop user has a fast connection?

There’s still millions of people on slow ADSL/DSL connections, satellite, fixed wireless, and so on.

Don’t use 20mb images when 100kb ones will suffice, good lord.

You want a notification if someone replies to a reply to a comment you made, when you’re not the one making the reply?

AFAIK, you can’t do that: the notifications trigger on replies directly to your comment, and not a reply to a reply.

It’s more about the quality of the content: you posted more than a couple hundred characters and thus were able to clearly outline what you wanted, why, and how you thought that would improve things.

Mastodon has the twitter problem where it’s short-form hot-takes and basically no good long-form content, other than like, to link to somewhere else for the good content.

I don’t have a lot of use for that kind of content especially in a format where it’s hard to respond to and have an actual conversation. Most twitter-clone UIs don’t do a good job of threading and nesting comments in a way that you can easily follow along and have conversations with the people engaged in discussion.

I’m old and like the forum-style interface where people can write out a complete thought, engage in a formatted discussion that’s easy to follow along with, and does so in a way that lets other people easily hop in at any point.

So I’d say it’s less about the idea of unifying platforms on a single identity (which I think is a great idea and firmly agree that having some sort of Fediverse SSO would make this a lot easier of a sell for less technical users) but more that dumping a pile of low-quality content into a place with reasonably good content isn’t actually improving anything.

(I would also qualify this with a comment that I’m old enough that my first “fediverse service” was FidoNet, so I’m reasonably sure I have a different opinion on the value of a well-designed platform for a single specific task vs making one that can do everything for everyone.)

As long as it’s something you can turn off and remove, that seems like a weird ‘I want everything in one place’ thing but not utterly destructive of the Lemmy experience.

It sounded more like stuffing a firehose into your Lemmy UI, at which point all you’ve really done is just make Lemmy a mastodon client, and I’ve already got several better options for that anyway.

If you want to follow Mastodon hashtags, you should just use Mastodon. It has the UX to support this, and all you’d end up by shoving this into lemmy is a lot of noise in a UI that’s designed for replies to a single thread and not just hundreds and hundreds of threads.