This is already implemented, admins can specify a “suggested” multi-community which will be shown next to Subscribed/Local/All just like you say.

Thanks this is very useful feedback. Especially the search box in community sidebar would be very useful and easy to add. Formatting for community ids should also be easy to improve. A bit later when I have time I will implement these things, and then make a post in the Help Design Lemmy Series regarding search.

By the way basic reading is working for me in Tor browser with JS disabled. Though buttons like switching Local/All, sorting and of course forms like register, login and search are not supported. We could use contributors to help fix these things.

You can setup a Lemmy community and link it in all your project repos. Sooner or later people will show up.

In what way is the search function in Lemmy awkward to use, is there anything specific that can be fixed? You are right about subtopics, and also Lemmy normally doesnt show discussions organized by topic on the frontpage. That can be changed though with different frontends like lemmyBB.

Thats from the rate limit, it seems you already did a settings import recently. That can take a lot of resources so its limited to once every 24 hours by default. If the import didnt work last time try again a day later.

Sounds like a variant of Doom. Now I want to play this game and shoot up the monsters.

We don’t have the capacity to implement all the features users ask for, at least not without additional contributors or waiting a long time. So it’s better to implement it as a bot.

The cleanest solution seems to be the one described in my previous comment, so you get an archived community with all the original content, correct usernames etc. And make a new community for new posts. Or have the bot create new posts and comments with the same content, and credit the author in markdown body. But that seems like a worse solution in many ways.

You can write a script for this:

# loop through all post
GET https://lemm.ee/api/v3/post/list?limit=50&sort=New&community_name=fedigrow&page=*page*
# take `post.ap_id` for each item
# then fetch it over activitypub on the other instance
GET https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/resolve_object?q=*urlencode post.ap_id*
# same thing for comments
GET https://lemm.ee/api/v3/comment/list?limit=50&sort=New&community_name=fedigrow&page=*page*
# again fetch
GET https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/resolve_object?q=*urlencode comment.ap_id*

Feel free to open an issue for federation between Piefed and Ibis, at least in theory it should work. The wikis in Piefed are not federated.

Thanks :)

Ibis uses markdown, not wikitext because the former has better support in Rust. There are some tools for converting from wikitext to markdown for example this one. By the way ibis.wiki is specifically for articles related to open source projects, you can use open.ibis.wiki for other topics.

Fully agree that theres too much politics. Like you say too often about attacking some kind of enemy rather trying to understand other perspectives. For better or for worse, those seem to be the types of people more likely to use a new platform like Lemmy. Hopefully in the future they will also get tired of this stuff.

Thank you, all donations help :)

I hope youre right :)

Liberapay is preferable as it has low fees and is also open source.

I actually got in contact with them yesterday, will probably have a meeting soon to discuss how we can work together with them.

Liberapay is the best option, because it doesnt take any fees beyond payment processing, and its also open source. Thanks for donating!

I see, or simpler yet a special badge which is shown next to donor’s username. Definitely worth considering. Thanks for the suggestion!

Thanks for the analysis. In addition to the monthly donations there have also been many one-time donations. I agree that it makes sense to update the donation dialog and popup with adapted text from this post, will do that shortly.

Thanks for your donations and your understanding. Its a bit annoying that people ascribe various beliefs to me personally based on nothing more than comments from random lemmy.ml users. But it seems there is nothing I can do to change that.