I’m pretty sure you can create your own bootstrap theme. If someone makes an old.reddit theme for Lemmy I’ll add it to my instance.

PSA: you can choose your default theme in your profile settings. I’m pretty sure the themes available are determined by your home instance’s options

Just chipping in to promote my own lemmy instance: I created !baseball@fanaticus.social and communities for the other 30 MLB teams to replace the subreddits we left behind.

I think that’s a great idea! I reached out to the moderators using the “contact the moderators” button in the sidebar on one of my favorite reddit communities but never got a response. I’m not sure if anyone read it or if Reddit just made it go away.

I don’t want to spam a bunch of individual users so I might try discord.

When you say “go down” do you mean what happens if an instance shuts down its servers for good? I think the answer to that is not a technical one. If a sever is owned by an organization (not-for-profit) and it pays it’s cloud provider bills, it’ll stay up forever.

If you mean what happens if there’s a technical issue and the server data is lost, that’s a different and solved issue. Create database backups. Easy peasy.

Link to the wired article with more details on the leaked Tesla docs. OP’s article references this one at the end.

Oof. Well I suppose the instance owners could create another wiki app on the subdomain (there are plenty to choose from) but I’d imagine it’d be a pain to deal with auth and permissions (e.g. who gets to edit the wiki).

Interesting, what pieces of the community configuration do you think won’t port over nicely? I’m not disagreeing that Lemmy functions differently from Reddit – just getting to the point where I could make a post was enough to prove that 😆 – but I hadn’t considered things like the subreddit rules wouldn’t port over 1:1.

Now that you mention it though, does Lemmy even support community wikis?

I agree with most of the other posters, I’m done with reddit. I want the community but I don’t want the corporation. It’s not that I find admins who run lemmy instances more trustworthy by default, but the decentralized nature make me think it can be more resilient and altogether a better experience.

Boy do I wish we had RIF for lemmy though 😞

IMO, I’m not convinced that your proposed algorithm addresses the discoverability issue and we may need a broader set of functionality to make communities (and posts in those communities) more discoverable. Additionally, consider that you’re idea for this algorithm is wrong, and someone comes up with a better (more performant and/or effective) one or one with a completely different set of goals in mind. What would we do then?

I wonder if there is a need to bake this functionality directly into the source code for the lemmy-ui or lemmy backend. Perhaps a better approach would be to allow instances to implement their own sorting algorithms and the lemmy-ui/backend just add the API necessary to do so.

This is an RFC, OP’s asking for opinions/gauging interest in the work, presumably before the work begins.