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Well, I’m on this platform. Posting on a community that specifically states there are no stupid questions. And it looks like I have been provided a lot of great answers. So I’ll take that as a win.

you’ll have to ask the people being assholes

That’s fair. However aggressive trucks on the road is the only reason I know they exist. I’ve calmed my post down a bit as you’re right. It’s not everyone.

Why would it not? I think maybe a few times in 20 years I’ve come across an installer that didn’t let you do custom partitioning.

Sounds like clients need to improve. Detect posts with same links and group them. Maybe server side allow users to categorize or tag their communities so it’s easier on client to organize them. Clients should also allow the user to set rules and conditions on those feeds.

Problem is we can’t have both ways. You can’t force all users to receive all news posts into a single feed and claim it’s distributed. Features. We need more features on the client side to solve these problems and improve the experience.

We have to get out of this 90s software architecture mindset and start thinking bigger. We don’t want to limit ourselves and build another Reddit because someone dislikes the growing pains of a new platform.

NO.

Once again, I don’t feel like people quite understand the big picture. They see an issue and resort to old, simplified solutions that are designed to solve problems on non fediverse platforms.

Options we want options! We don’t want to hard code things one way or another. We want data and APIs, then it’s up the client to put it together in way that makes sense.

I’m all for adding a category “tag” on a community to further the ability to organize a feed. But it should be up to the user/client to decide to allow / group s show the communities in a pleasing way. DO NOT FORCE THINGS INTO PEOPLES FEED.

These “ideas” that people keep coming up with are nice and start good discussions, but most of them keep trying and to force fediverse apps into being reddit , twitter or whatever else.

No one brings up Discord? You really believe you’re talking to your friends in private? So discord pops up all those years ago and provided the service out of the kindness of their heart? For free? The terms of service is much more lawyer speak these days but when it first made it’s debut they openly admitted to recording audio and storing data. It requires your phone number for goodness sake. It’s the only app mentioned that’s actual purpose is to listen.

Not everyone who participates with their own instance can afford storage. Some users might have bandwidth restrictions. It’s the Fediverse baby. I’m getting 90s internet vibes. Wild, unpredictable and most import; controlled by the people once again.

• Always document things you want to keep, never rely on someone else to do it for you.

Thank you. I recently set up my own instance and realized the need for tools that can assist in managing.

You must be confused. No one wants the actual answers in this community. They simply take scenarios a beginner might experience before doing any research at all and type them in-front of poorly compressed cartoon images. No thought or humor involved. Since everything is new and users are desperate for content, it gets votes no matter the quality.

That's the exact opposite philosophy of the technology you're leveraging. As the apps add more features and the fediverse grows, it will make more sense.

Imagine installing Linux and having Microsoft word, Adobe products, or some games pre-installed without pain.

That’s Windows. What you’re looking for is Microsoft Windows. I would very much not like to imagine that.