Alongside others mentioned (tags/flairs, multi-communities, keyword filtering, etc.) another feature I’d like to see added/improved is notification settings.

Something like…

In account settings:

• Enable/disable all notifications.
• Enable/disable post reply notifications.
• Enable/disable comment reply notifications.

For others’ posts/comments and per posts/comments:

• Enable/disable post reply notifications.
• Enable/disable comment reply notifications.

With those settings you could more easily tune out all notifications or only opt into those you’d like to see, and opt out of those you’re done with (say your post/comment got popular and you’ve had your fill from the replies).

Unrelated to notification settings, it would also be nice to be able to block communities from the front page via the … More menu in the default web UI.

Now for any occasion:

Excuse some rough edges, didn’t feel like taking that much time on it

What you’re looking for is difficult to find in the framing of Science Fiction because its very framing invokes technological advancement - technology is the application of science, and machinery is the result of technological innovation.

Machinery’s certainly a result of technological innovation, but not the only result. Different materials, even altogether different forms of organisms are also results of technological innovation. OP’s left it rather open, so it may be that they also mean these different applications of science.

fwiw this is poking more fun at the other person that said this in reply to you, which is why I spelled it your(s and another person’s) way

Hey speaking of, while !games@lemmy.world is a great example, if you’re not finding similar communities for your interest, feel free to post over in !general@lemmy.world for what Zombiepirate’s describing.

Hobby without a community around here? Just not really sure if an existing community is open to non-news posts? General’s got ya covered.

Going against the post’s spirit, but…If you’re not finding a community for your interests (or only finding abandoned/inactive ones), and don’t want to create one (or try to get existing ones going), you’re welcome over in !general@lemmy.world. Post about whatever, find likeminded folks, then if ya think there’s enough of ya, you can make a separate community without it being one person posting into a void.

Also there’s !justpost@lemmy.world. Similar vibes.

Their other comment elaborates on this more:

Until the link /c/books shows any user, with only one click, the aggregate of all “books” communities in a single place, without subscribing or even logging in. Then lemmy will stagnate because it is failing to live up to its promise of federated decentralization

They want a link like /c/books to work like multireddits did on reddit to collect together books-related communities for improved browsing and discovery.

By the way, I noticed you never commented back on your previous thread here, any reason to that?

Didn’t feel there was much to add. Some of the threads I’ve started here are a mixture of gauging interest and putting ideas out there for others to try.

To add to this, I think as long as decentralization involves having to know how to and have the money to operate a server, it’s not going to reach the point some may hope for. The monetary costs may be lower than ever, but that doesn’t address the knowledge requirements (not to mention time for setup and upkeep).

Even one of the more user friendly attempts at this so far (AT Protocol) doesn’t address this in a meaningful way, as one still has to get into the weeds of server config, domain leasing, etc.

Yeah, keyword filtering isn’t a default feature (yet) @Varyk@sh.itjust.works. I’m not sure which apps/frontends enable keyword filtering, but I think Voyager on mobile does, not sure which web frontends do.

I think it may also be worthwhile to toss in Bonfire, if looking for some pieces designed to hack together into a fediverse app. As I was looking up software the other day, I also saw some developing their software with Fedify, so there may be some resources to pull from there.

Tossing a mention to ya OP so you may catch this as well: @sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works

It’s Tail Time!

For people finding you, it means having to interact more in ways that encourage them to follow/subscribe to you, similar to how it goes now. For you finding stuff, it’s also similar in that you’d want to follow/subscribe to those that introduce you to others to follow/subscribe to. It’s really more for those that don’t mind putting forth effort to have their own online social space, much like the setup involved in having any online space.

It shines when you want to host multiple users with multiple different domains and identities.

Emphasis added. It’s that last part that drew me to include it. A single individual can prefer to portray themselves in multiple ways, particularly for different fediverse software (or even just different projects), so that’s why I included it.

Personally I’d slightly rearrange the 5 ways, putting reporting after thinking before engaging/sharing, but that presumes decent moderation of the spaces in question, so eh. Plus they’re all of similar importance, so the ordering is neither here nor there

I find it hard to believe they’d tell an archeologist ‘no’ for some reason.

Depends on if enough of the team is superstitious, and fears their findings will lead to a greater disturbance unleashing a long forgotten ancient force that may devastate the region.

Buuut that’s highly unlikely, so yeah, weird they didn’t reach out. Unless they were the superstitious ones in a different way and wanted to be first to seize an ancient power (or less interestingly, they wanted the credit for the finding and didn’t want to let on what they were looking for).

Going to guess it’s one of the UrbanDictionary definitions, or in that vein…

Here I was thinking Ktistec was the most unfortunate, mainly as it’s awkward to remember & write.

Appreciate the writeup! Reading towards the end, it sounds like a good idea would be to fully discharge the controller’s battery before disassembly to avoid some of the risk during reassembly, supposing it’s functional enough to power on for that. Also given the possible parts loss, disassembling over a bowl or similar might help prevent losing anything. Honestly it’s a good idea anyway just for holding screws.

Also for any interested in some visuals, iFixit has a teardown video here.

You might be thinking of Solid led by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

I think I see where you’re coming from on this, and to clarify I’m not thinking so much of people developing common interests and relating individually as you describe. Instead I’m thinking in terms of people posting about an interest in a broader community, like Schizo describes with a hypothetical Hobbies community, to gauge interest and carry on for awhile until it’s pretty clear they’d benefit from creating their own community.

A classic example is like the TV or Games communities that eventually draw enough people interested in the same specific shows/games that they then create sub-communities dedicated to those specific shows/games.