CoMaps is gaining popularity.

Apparently not good enough lol. Still marked as bot.

there was this satirical “web browsing simulator 2025” or something like that where you had to do all those things.
but I don’t remember the exact name and can’t find it with a search engine. Maybe someone else knows what I am talking about.

It was revealed to him in a dream

I was not aware of the issue that downvotes negatively affect mental health.

I don’t know that.

What Is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

this post provides a good overview of this issue and possible solution. https://popcar.bearblog.dev/lemmy-needs-to-fix-its-community-separation-problem/

There have been discussions about this in the Lemmy Github repo issues. Latest info AFAIK is that this feature is waiting for some volunteer to implement it. Current developers said that they are busy with other features.

But yes, this is something that I would also like to see very much. Allowing same-topic communities to connect would be good for whole Fediverse.

Other comments already pointed to some very good software solutions.
But I would argue that absolutely the biggest barrier to entry for the masses is hardware.
Restoring an old PC or making some cable spaghetti with some SBC is currently too advanced for average person.
Self-hosting for the masses would require some new form of home servers.
Something modular, where adding new components would be as easy as playing with Lego bricks.

OH REALLY?

heh, good one

Is this the “agile” development methodology that I heard so much about?

Problem is that the whole concept of advertising is “telling other people what to do”.

• People use Google.
• Google tells people to use Chrome
• Chrome becomes most popular browser
• Chrome removes the " this site has RSS" icon from URL bar
• People forget that RSS is a thing
• People now rely on Google News and other biased sites to get information
• biased sites tell people what to do

RSS is freedom
go tell other people to use it
also Lemmy RSS community

Your post is missing the most important information that you wanted to share

GotHub seems to display basic GitHub stuff decently well.
https://gh.whateveritworks.org/

this could be used as map data for an open source GTA clone

so this is similar to LibRedirect?
https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension
https://libredirect.github.io/
check out this list of privacy frontends and see if you can implement any of them in Predirect

Also, I see that you only handle one instance for redirect. Either the default instance or custom instance.
Consider implementing multiple instances. Here is list of instances that LibRedirect uses:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/libredirect/instances/main/data.json
Here is a list of instances that Farside.link uses:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/benbusby/farside/master/services-full.json

Both LibRedirect and Farside still have to deal with the rate-limiting problem with Youtube and Reddit and I assume other sites as well. Invidious instance or Teddit instance can be rate-limited, resulting in video not playing or post not showing up.
If your extension does not distribute user traffic across multiple instances, then I assume that your chosen instances will get hammered into ratelimit even faster than other instances.
So consider thinking about solution for this.
One of suggestions that I like is to allow user to provide an URL to a list of instances.
That way, someone or some automated system can periodically compose a list of instances and users can “subscribe” to that list.

Also some useful links:
https://github.com/digitalblossom/alternative-frontends
https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy#social-networks-and-platforms
https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends
https://matrix.to/#/#alternative-frontends:tchncs.de

Wikipedia is usually a good place for descriptions and definitions
Check out this article about Lemmy and feel free to make improvements to it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_(social_network)

I am aware of those two, but those are just for file storage. I was thinking something more general. Like having a Virtual Private Server, that people can extend with their donated resources. VPS can be used for more than just file storage. It can do processing as well.

gotta fail fast