I see my wording was kind of weird. What I meant is: if I set these RSS feeds, will the combined feed show only new content from that moment on, or everything/old notifications that I had already marked as read?

The more that I think about it, it’s not actually about new notifications, but old material whose account I can’t remember it was on! Can it retrieve past stuff at the moment of setting?

I accidentally made, like, 6 accounts, each on a different instance when first joining Lemmy because I didn’t understand what federation in the field of decentralization meant LOL. Since I learned, I just kept them and have since rotated through them, partly for an illusory sense of slightly added privacy, but mostly to try to mitigate the blow of the loss of any one account in case its instance goes kaput for any reason. I guess it also gives the added benefit of Lemmy appearing more active lol (but I never comment on my own posts nor comments; that’d be wild).

Basically, if someone’s response to me was interesting and I wanted to reference it later, a unified inbox would solve the problem of having to recall which account was involved.

lol I guess I dodged the instability because I was using it on Windows all these years up until a few months ago, where it was mostly fine!

Man, I wanna see your artistry over at [email protected]!

no worrying about updating or not updating

What? Isn’t the entire AUR attack a vast net of worry cast on all update managers and the digital supply chain? Linux has suddenly become much riskier to use in recent years, even as it’s also steadily improved otherwise. We need to be just as brutally honest about its pitfalls as much as we can praise it over its strengths, lest we deceive ourselves and others.

Hey man, they gave us Kdenlive. That thing has singlehandedly taken down Sony VEGAS Pro and so many other worse, closed-source, commercial video-editing programs. If you dislike Dolphin, find any one of the other thousands of file managers, but don’t attack KDE.

Well… I guess not everyone’s as smart as you, then.

Ooh, I really like “AutoVac!”

Exactly, agreed!

Like, even just SelfVac or whatever would be good…

Ha, let’s hope that doesn’t happen here. This is genuinely exciting.

Frankly, I didn’t even know about this in the first place.

Agreed, selfish liars are always on the worse side of the moral scale, no exceptions.

But the whole federated structure is the avoidance of tyranny by nature. If an instance starts acting crazy, the others can simply unlink from it. “Too many” will never happen anyway because the interface is more difficult to use. We should promote it as much as possible, I believe.

Right, hence us being on here!

It blows my mind when people don’t acknowledge the legitimately cool corners of Reddit, like /r/FreeGameFindings. The content itself is not all bad there if you know where to look.

I feel like apart from niche communities, Lemmy now has critical mass to survive on its own!

Correct, RR has unusual exception because it’s the only blind-friendly Reddit app (which is legitimately amazing at that). And then other apps like the forked Slide (which I use) piggyback off of it, pretending they’re RR so that they can still function, too.

Huh, I… didn’t even think of that. I suppose people could download all the old content before this kicks in, at least, but yeah, that’ll be the loss of new stuff moving forward, unless people can sway them over to nsfwlemmy.