Personally I dislike anything with -verse involved because big companies have run it into the ground and then some.

The boring, dry ways of describing them work best in my opinion.

Federated forums is the driest, most technical and to the point but not very telling.

Swap out forum for link aggregator and you have similar, arguably even more technical (certainly more of a mouthful).

Connected/linked forums might be more approachable, more readily conveying how these are separate forums but networked together.

Cross-forums may work as well to the same end, but not sure how immediately understandable cross may be in this context and outside of gaming spaces.

Whatever the case I kind of think this has things backwards. What’s more important than describing and talking about the backend tech is pointing people to any of the sites built with them that have anything of interest to them to bother with. I can’t think of anything online I’ve ever gone to or used because someone told me it was using Apache, Nginx, phpBB, or like an Open Source Web Server or using such and such CDN.

The reason why is simple: next to nobody talks like that. The only people that might are deep in web dev.

If at all possible, I’d try to arrange for a break.

A lot of this sounds like it may stem from burnout (before getting into any more long-term conditions). Taking a break probably won’t help you see your job in a new light (some jobs simply suck, or aren’t a good fit for people personally), but it could give you time to rest enough to look for other opportunities. However first and foremost any such break should focus on resting and recovery to get you to a better state to just be well and happy.

Once you know you can sort out breaks and recover, you can set aside more time to look for opportunities. Right now it seems almost like this may be among your best options: carve out breaks for yourself to rest and recover. Once you’re feeling better, take time you’ve reclaimed for yourself to seek out opportunities to change jobs and improve your work situation.

Lately I’ve been casually researching a variety of things like usual, and remembering again that part of that needs to involve finding more international sources, like looking for the various research groups/centers in different countries to see what their approaches and results are.

I don’t really know where any of that would fit into any communities (CivilianScience? CasualResearch?), so here we are.

Besides that been doing the usual browsing around for more open web stuff and hey, NeoDB is cool! It’s federated software that “helps users to manage and explore collections, reviews, and ratings for various cultural products, including books, movies, music, podcasts, games, and performances.” So sort of like a hybrid Letterboxd/RAWG/Goodreads/etc. from the sounds of it.

Oh, at the time of writing I wasn’t sure if the thread title would display in their notifications with the mention, so I wrote that just in case.

Meant to comment this earlier. On your last point so far as I’m aware there’s currently no way to create a link post (direct URL lemmy link as you say) from Mastodon/microblog to Lemmy. The reason your test post is linking back to the Mastodon instance is because of the image attachment, because you can create image posts between the two.

If you drop the image attachment, while it won’t look as nice, you can get the separate title, link, and body text without it looking too bad. Unfortunately it will lose the visual draw in the process, but that seems to be the workaround for the time being.

The main ones would be @nutomic@lemmy.ml and @dessalines@lemmy.ml, which I just mentioned so should be no need to mention again I think.

Btw for their benefit, adding the context: post with feedback and questions on Lemmy-Mastodon interoperation.

It may not do much depending on the mods/admins, but it never hurts to report and downvote comments or posts like that.

Emphasis on reporting there, as I think sometimes that stuff lingers around because people have made a habit of only downvoting and blocking those doing that regularly. I realize in your examples it’s more likely bias or bigotry respectively, but still.

Report first, then downvote and block. Doing only the latter only makes your experience a little better, the former may help the community.

For those that may only vote and otherwise lurk, there’s a decent amount.

The inability to create multi-communities/reddits (or feeds as Piefed calls them), the absence of post-folding/deduplication for when someone posts the same article to multiple communities (sometimes similar, sometimes distinct), the absence of keyword filtering to automatically filter out stuff from local/all feeds one’s uninterested in, and these are just a few from the top of my head for those that mostly lurk.

In other words, vibe coders are today’s technologically accelerated script kiddie.

That’s arguably worse as the produced scripts may largely work and come with even less demand for understanding than a script kid’s cobbling together of code may have demanded.

Thanks for the heads up! I realize this is a much delayed response, but I just got an urge to update my own lists here and adjusted the wording to indicate your post has been updated and to keep an eye on it.

Update Notes:
Major notes:

• Added a wood category to creative section, with !woodworking@lemmy.ca & !stick@sh.itjust.works.
• Adjusted and added two categories to the entertainment and now, relaxation, section: growing with !gardening@lemmy.world and aww animals with a multitude of communities.
• Added to existing sections: musicproduction, drawing, watercolor, sillydrawingrequests, horrormovies, videos@sopuli, mealtimevideos@cafe, videoessays, longformvideos, football (not sure how I didn’t have that already), squaredcircle, and formula1.

Minor notes:

• Updated various communities to account for instance or community migrations, e.g. !sillydrawingrequests@sopuli.xyz, !writingprompts@literature.cafe, !mealtimevideos@lemmy.cafe, and showsandmovies to !Television@lemm.ee.
• Revised and added new sub-points for similar communities, e.g. video-game and different decade music communities under general music community. All links remain, just minor housekeeping.

Would you add some body text, context/opinion/summary, in accordance with rule 4?

A part of the problem is that there are multiple similar general topic instances/sites to choose from. If there were more dissimilar, specific topic instances/sites it might help reduce the choice paralysis a little.

It might even better help highlight the perks of federation, as it would be easier to be like, “See, even though you’re on cuteanimals.posts, you can still check out and comment on stuff besides cute animals if you want.”

Reddit Discussion Policy
For expressing frustration at the amount of Reddit discussion on Lemmy, I recommend !vent@lemmy.world, !venting@lemmy.ml, or the like.

For discussions concerning Reddit, there are a few different communities you might look to such as !reddit@lemmy.world, !reddit@lemmy.ml, !RedditMigration@kbin.social, and probably others I’m unaware of. The flipside of these suggestions is that these are also the communities those uninterested in the topic may block if they wish to minimize the amount of such discussions they’re seeing in their feed.

Constructive threads concerning the transfer of information or app development from Reddit to Lemmy here remain okay, but threads simply complaining will be locked and redirected to the aforementioned venting communities to vent in, or Reddit ones to block to hopefully help curate their feeds.

Thanks for your understanding, and feel free to message me if you need any help in navigating to those communities.

You may find more discussion over in !reddit@lemmy.world, for what it’s worth.

Always enjoy Technology Connections videos!

I think this is also in Settings under Language and Appearance, Website appearance, unless this is a stricter setting that ensures it works as desired.

Thanks for the share! Appreciate it cutting right to the substance and emphasis that it’s strictly speculation on their part on the details of what happened.

Btw original video title for those interested:
“Analyzing the Mid-Air Collision Over the Potomac: A Detailed Examination of ATC Communications”

And correct me if i am wrong, but banning a user just stops them from posting, but i thought it did not delete their post history without additional mod action - which i cant see in the modlog

There’s an option when banning a user to also remove their content, albeit unless it’s an admin action I don’t think it would affect their whole post history beyond the specific community.

I’m kind of getting the sense as I look into this that it may be related to how Voyager is rendering the thread, as I’m not able to observe what’s being described from the web interface. That’s another catch in all this, the other apps and interfaces have their own quirks in how they handle rendering things, which itself is typically related to how they work off the base software (Lemmy in this case).

Edit: why am i forced to upload a photo for a new post?

Which way are you posting? Mobile/web interface? Shouldn’t need to add an image to post…

That aside, regarding your main question:

I think it’s very confusing when a single post appears with different comments on different instances, and have no idea how this works.

A basic reason for the difference in which comments are appearing across different instances/sites is because of delays in networking (federation) between the sites due to a variety of reasons. One of the common ones with the fediverse tends to be the software itself, and sometimes differences in versions’ federation handling. In this case it’s probably because Lemmy World is still running an older version of Lemmy with clunkier federation at Lemmy World’s scale, which causes delays in activities on there updating elsewhere (particularly those hosted in Australia).

Edit:
See also Kichae’s comment for a more detailed explanation, covers how things operate under more ideal conditions.