It was already public to anybody willing to put in the work and extract the data.

I do that occasionally but since the stale “Active” is the default it’s easy to forget.

Ooh, I just found you can change the default!

edit: isn’t this kind of a “you’re holding it wrong” problem? I mean, the default behaviour on Lemmy is awful, not just for this but also since iirc it didn’t default to showing my subscribed communities at the start either.

The high volume of unoriginal Linux content is getting old, and that’s coming from somebody who uses Linux.

I can’t really complain about the content being a bit stale when it feels like the alternative is nothing. So many communities that had vibrant counterparts on Reddit struggle to get one post per week. If it’s ditto-memes on Lemmy, I’ll take it.

Imho the big challenge is just lack of throughput. I follow many communities, and it’s still not at the point where my front-page is consistently new content every day.

Feed the beast. Until then, quit whining about how repetitive the content is - there just isn’t enough of it yet.

Maybe I’m being unfair, but somehow when I read complaints like this about “purity” and “insufferable” and all that, I always assume it’s “they downvoted and insulted me when I made a bigoted joke about like transpeople or something”.

no worries, thanks.

I’m OP.

I mean I’m okay to self-host something if there’s a secure and safe and automatically backed-up solution. But realistically that’s just “3rd-party paid cloud” like DigitalOcean. I could run a service on the pi I use for files and minecraft, but I’d still have to figure out making sure the service is secure and backed-up.

edit: I guess hoping that vaultwarden-server was a nice easy package already sitting in the Debian apt repos was too much to hope for right?

edit2: wow lemmy really poops the bed at deleted replies with replies doesn’t it?

This workflow raises the obvious question for me: why not use keepass for everything, if you’re already using it for your critical high security stuff? Worse ergonomics?

It’s over, you can go outside and play now

Eventually Mastodon will get a standard implementation of quote-toots. At that point I’d think the appropriate way to represent Lemmy comments as toots would be to represent the toots as quote-tooting the root (post) toot. You’d still have to click the toot to see the context of the parent toot, but that’s a client problem - imho clients should always have an easier way to view the parent of a reply-toot than doing a full-page nav to the reply-toot in context of its thread, and the fact that they don’t is a problem on every twitter-style microblogging platform. But you’d have quick context of which article they’re replying to.