The web dying (i mean web browsers, html, javascript, etc) wouldn’t be such a bad thing imo.

Look at what’s happened to nearly every static content site in the past few years, they’ve become nearly unusable.

News companies can try to convince ppl to use their apps, but everyone else will continue to use social media apps to get most of their news like they already do anyway. Ppl wanting static content can use the minimal protocols like gemini, gopher, or even a simple markdown web browser, which are already better than most news sites.

Dang we really have grown.

Does a debian version upgrade require an OS reinstall?

Obligatory imperial troop copypasta:

You see american choppers in the bright blue sky, hundreds and hundreds of screaming american soldiers drop from it, you look across the field and see the tanks rolling in. You hear a loud explosion and realise that the shrine you have protected for thousands of years with tooth and nail is destroyed by the empire, you come to the realisation that this is very probably the end of your people who’ve struggled to survive all these centuries.You realise that very soon there is going to be a river of blood of your people here; white phosphorus and depleted uranium will be shot very soon, deforming babies for decades to come, and millions of your people are gonna be killed. Your millennia old language and religion will be wiped out, you’re very likely the last of your kind.

Suddenly, an American soldier kicks you down, puts his foot on your neck and aims his standard ar-15 on the side of your head all while screaming; you realise you’re gonna die, and you won’t have to see the destruction of your community that you fostered so carefully all these centuries for.

Just before he pulls the trigger, you think to yourself, “To be fair to him, he probably had a low GPA in highschool and didnt have a health-care, those are notoriously hard to get in America”.

I was talking about non-local posts. It’s really hard to tell what you’re asking. Click the all button, and now you’ll see federated posts in addition to local ones.

If they made all top-level comments thus suppressing all other activity on the post, what would that mean?

I can’t figure out what this means. New comments are also sorted as hot by default, if you read the doc I linked.

If you’re looking at the All tab, there is no difference between a local post, or a federated post when it comes to sorting.

Lemmy’s sorts are described here.

jxl can’t come fast enough.

You might have to use one of those lemmy link plugins for that, bc lemmy’s community rss feeds are meant to be for local communities, not federated ones.

Here’s an rss link of a single community: https://programming.dev/feeds/c/programming.xml?sort=Active

I believe commonmark tries to specify a minimum baseline spec, and doesn’t try to to expand beyond that. It can be frustrating bc we’d like to see tables, superscripts, spoilers, and other things standardized, but I can see why they’d want to keep things minimal.

My main wishlist for markdown, is a better live collaborative markdown editor. Hedgedoc works, but it’s showing it’s age, and they don’t seem to be getting close to releasing v2.

Etherpad also has a markdown extension, but it doesn’t import / export that well.

Hedgedoc / hackmd support a good amount of extensions out of the box. I think typora and obsidias do also (but not open source).

For sure, I bet full fledged editors like word don’t even let you import it.

Most ppl have settled on Commonmark luckily, including us.

Markdown. Its only in tech-spaces that its preferred, but it should be used everywhere. You can even write full books and academic papers in markdown (maybe with only a few extensions like latex / mathjax).

Instead, in a lot of fields, people are passing around variants of microsoft word documents with weird formatting and no standardization around headings, quotes, and comments.

https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom

No horizontal tabs makes it useless for tablets and larger screens.

Not FOSS unfortunately.

I’d tried a lot of vim alternatives, but helix was the first one that made me completely switch over.

EndeavourOS is an arch-based distro that “just works”. I put it on a new machine recently, and the installer manages to let you pick a desktop environment, and still manages to be user friendly.