For the second, you cant follow accounts on lemmy but you can follow lemmy accounts from mastodon. (it will show both posts and comments the person makes as boosts)

Same for posting, you cant post so it shows up on mastodon since lemmy doesnt have hashtags but you can post and comment from mastodon (post by mentioning the community in the post and comment by replying to a post made on lemmy). Note on posting from lemmy to mastodon though is if you have a mastodon account that follows the lemmy account and comments on posts with hashtags that comment and the parent post will appear in those hashtag feeds, just looks spammy

Itll have api compatibility on release so that will work then with all lemmy frontends

yeah people who have been here for longer might have not accurate stats to only the year since I cant get an actual year range of the things I request

itll pull from your entire lemmy history but for most people that will be within the last year

It still doesn't catch everything since there's users that don't vote comment or post

Adding in users who don't do any action would double it again (although not public info which people are visiting communities hence why its not part of it)

Ill be submitting some logos and another banner that im making in gimp later in the week

Edit: exams are pain, will do that before the end of the month

didnt realize I added the programming community to the communities that triggers the bot haha

its relevant to this post but not crosspost relevant, will tweak the triggers

The one issue I ran into is alternate UIs other than lemmy-ui dont seem to collapse crossposts in the post feed so the recommendation of cross-posting everything floods people not using lemmy-ui

Going through and making issues in all of their repositories

It was put into place mostly due to that since a bunch of those communities were made with no limitations. We can look into changing if it seems to be limiting the creation of some communities but so far has just been limiting mostly topic hyperspecific communities so that the more general communities get used before splitting off into subcommunities

lemmyf isnt currently listed since its one of the instances that I had no idea existed. Would be under nsfw though

~~you can trigger one using !remindme and then the length at the start of a message~~

Edit: its offline temporarily so that I can comply with lemmy.world bot rules

The core dev of said software put it in a position where it can be forked at any time. If they decide to go crazy in the future and affect how we use the platform were just going to make a fork here and then continue on that. Until then there's just a separation of the developer and the software

(Especially since this is a community for discussing the software due to being c/rust/)

Theres also way more contributors than just dessalines and nutomic for things relating to lemmy now after the wave of people from reddit

If I run a poll for the community on what we should do what should the options be?

currently thinking

1. move topic collection into a new community
2. move general programming concepts into a new community
3. keep both in this community