It reminds me of people who added Invidious links back in the day, but over time the individious instances would go down, preventing people from knowing which content was initially linked.

Yes, the archive.today links have that risk, but not the archive.org ones. Also, you can manually modify archive.today links to show the original link.

With the way this seems to works, can’t we just create thousands of links to let’s say Lemmy.world from all the other instances, to boost the LW domain authority? Shouldn’t all the crossposts links be taken into account in this calculation?

That might be one reason lemmy.world has a relatively high domain authority.

And if yes, then do 3 links here really make a difference?

Your 3 links won’t make a difference. Starting a trend and spreading the word will.

Well you still have the direct links, so it doesn’t make a difference.

• https://moz.com/learn/seo/domain-authority
• https://moz.com/learn/seo/backlinks

You can use the Wayback machine addon to easily get archived links https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wayback-machine_new/.

And a bookmarklet for archive.today:

javascript:void(open('https://archive.today/?run=1&url='+encodeURIComponent(document.location)))

Linking directly to reddit makes them show up at the top of search results. You should use archive.org or archive.today links.

Your title is terrible. Use the article’s title.

Open Source Alternatives to Popular Software https://openalternative.co/

Self-hosted software https://selfh.st/apps/

A list of free, self-hosted software https://awesome-selfhosted.net/ - https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

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You should edit the OP too.

Linking directly to reddit helps them show up at the top of search results. Use archive websites.

The person who created the “List of Active Reddit Alternatives” is a dev who helped work on saidit.net. They deleted the post themselves and quit being a mod of that redditalternatives sub; due to their disgust with reddit and many of the users on it.

That subreddit is not trustworthy now. I recall someone sharing evidence of content they’re censoring.

How do you find out what mastodon instances block others?

it’s slowly turning into the old twitter.

How?

People should stop linking to reddit. Use an archived version. More websites linking to reddit is why they’re at the top of search results. It’s called “domain authority”.

mostly for mechanical keyboards

There are good forums for that. People need to go back to forums.

Yeah, this is just manufactured drama. The screenshots showing what preceded his comment show the whole thing to clearly be bait for the purpose of creating drama.

The problems would only get exacerbated if more of them migrate over here, that’s the issue.

I doubt that it would make Lemmy significantly worse. I’ve already had to block nearly a hundred lemmy communities for containing the “mindless trash” that is abundant on reddit. The reality is that most people aren’t smart and don’t want to browse and participate in intellectual content. They want to mindlessly scroll through endless memes. I have not observed that people on lemmy are overall more intelligent than people on reddit.

I don’t think so. I think Lemmy already & inherently has many of the same problems. People are people, no matter where you go.

Lemmy is only better because it’s not centrally controlled.

Notice the htmlview at the end. You can archive it.

• https://web.archive.org/web/20240717202840/https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Djia_WkrVO3S4jKn6odNwQk7pOcpcL4x00FMNekrb7Q/htmlview
• https://archive.fo/fPiCh

Peertube vs Odysee?

Non-reddit link https://web.archive.org/web/20240716124949/https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1e43w7v/a_word_about_private_attribution_in_firefox/

Gross. Mozilla employees are officially posting to reddit…

I think it’s essential to have one or more communities like this. There were a few on reddit – watchredditdie, declineintocensorship, and more. The admins shut them down. I was unsuccessful in getting them to move over to Lemmy.

Absolutely the same things happen on lemmy. It’s to be expected from both mods and admins. We need to have a place we can go to find out “which are the bad communities & instances”.

The main problem I foresee is that those “watchredditdie and declineintocensorship” subs seemed to be well modded and mostly populated with intelligent people. In contrast, lemmy seems to have quite a lot of trolls, unintelligent people, and likely astroturfing. That will make things more difficult.

Thanks for the info!

I may add options to modify the exported data in some ways via a simple checkbox in the future, but I wouldn’t count on it.

The 2nd screenshot https://github.com/StableNarwhal/Lemmy-Userdata-Migration/wiki/How-to-only-export-or-transfer-a-part-of-my-user-data,-e.g.-blocked-instances%3F shows that feature already exists?

What about forking lasim, which is now inactive? https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

It’s better than the built-in option because it gives you more options. For example, if I only want to add blocks from one account to another without overwriting any other settings. I don’t see that your tool allows for that.