In the meantime we can try to be helpful when possible!

iphone@lemmy.ml

And if your instance needs to search for the full url still: https://lemmy.ml/c/iphone

Yeah, but we can help out in the meantime!

iphone@lemmy.ml

And if you need the full url for your instance’s search: https://lemmy.ml/c/iphone

There are a ton of twitter bots that do exactly this already. I’ve seen a few mastodon bots do the same so I imagine it’s possible with lemmy as well.

At worst, you could just set it up on mastodon and then have them automatically post to lemmy.

If Yishan is on twitter I hope he responds too

The hard part is that while you can have relative links to communities (/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml) it doesn’t work for individual posts, threads, or comments.

I assume it’s a difficult problem because those would have different ids in different instances?

It feels oddly nostalgic. I think it reminds me of the fun I used to have when I first joined reddit.

Rather than just mindlessly scrolling with a couple “hehs” or a blowing air out my nose slightly faster than normal.

I think many people were looking for a reason to leave but kind of felt stuck seeing all the alternatives being either dead or abrasive.

Lemmy seems to have captured the soul of what a significant portion of people have already been looking for.

Perhaps the future is found in the past - people migrating back to self-hosted message boards - there used to be thousands of these back in the 1990s and 2000s. Some of them were run as small businesses, others were run as hobbyist projects by their owners.

I kind of feel like lemmy combines both of these worlds. It is different but allows for people to self host their small communities while choosing to be a part of the larger network (or not).

The ol’ switcheroo on lemmy would be a great way to teach people how to do inter-instance links! I don’t think it’s possible right now to link specific threads or comments, but it would definitely be a fun way to show how federation works.

I’ve already mentioned a few times here how I have similar feeling. An added effect to that is actually leaving comments again.

At some point I stopped really engaging with reddit and became a passive lurker. I thought I simply grew out of it, but maybe it’s more about how the site stopped feeling like a community.

Or how it started feeling like everything on reddit eventually became a witch hunt of one flavor or another. The days of karmanaut or years later unidan may as well be forgotten history to modern redditors. If they’re brought up it’s for the drama or the cringe.

The feeling of actually enjoying them and how the community interacted with itself at that time has been lost.

I’m feeling the same way, but I suppose we’ll soon see.

Even if the reddit exodus doesn’t turn into another internet legend, I am enjoying having fun participating in a forum for the first time in a long time. Probably since reddit stopped feeling like one in the early 2010s.