I added a mark as read button to the posts but now patiently waiting till the WebSockets -> REST API transition is complete so it can get merged.

The front end needs a lot of work… Every bit is appreciated and the maintainers are pretty fast at reviewing and providing feedback which is nice to see.

While I agree, lemmy seems to generate a short description of the linked URL by itself which is already very useful.

On one hand I would love to know all these secrets on the other… A little bit of blissful ignorance might not be the worst thing.

Yeah that’s probably not gonna happen, they have communicated that they won’t give up without a fight.

Full damage control mode

I wouldn’t create an own instance just for this community and rather try to get more and different people as community mods if the current mod isn’t responding.

Absolutely, I tried switching to it using bridges for all my messaging accounts and the performance was abhorrent, mind you just me, a single user on a self hosted instance.

Discord is not a bad bet, but I think they still have like 2-4years in them.

All smoke and mirrors on planet Elon

As long as it is stored in your balls, you’re fine…

That is a genius approach, though a big challenge is probably going to be to select the correct corpus