You might enjoy reading The Egg by Andy Weir, if you haven’t already

Blazing Saddles. It killed the western genre for a long time because of how well it parodied them

Not really sure how that works with federation. You’re not “using” lemmy.world, you’re using lemm.ee, which has a copy of content from lemmy.world.

I have multiple accounts, but only really for moderation purposes. Cross-instance moderation is semi-broken, so it’s easier to do it that way. Other than that, having an alt is useful in case your main instance goes down.

I wouldn’t generally worry about impersonation, if someone tries it you could contact the admin of that instance and they’re generally pretty responsive.

Pixelfed/Mastodon/etc sort of work with Lemmy, in that they can see Lemmy posts. Lemmy can see posts from them if you tag them appropriately, which rarely happens. They only sort of federate properly. And yeah, Loops is like TikTok for the Fediverse.

I’m not saying PieFed is better than Lemmy, just saying that apart from Lemmy, your best option is probably PieFed atm.

Mostly Lemmy via discuss.online, with a little bit of Pixelfed via social.photo and Mastodon via utter.online.

I was using Loops pretty heavily for a while, but the most recent update made it not work right on my phone (and there’s no web version), so maybe I’ll try again when it’s out of beta. It’s also not truly federated atm, so only sort of counts.

I’ve tried out a bit of PieFed and it looks really nice. Probably the best Lemmy threadiverse alternative atm. The dev does some interesting experiments like Private Voting

Sorry, worded that somewhat confusingly. FairEmail and Thunderbird are both open source apps that I use as clients for my Fastmail account, which probably isn’t open source (I haven’t checked)

I use Fastmail with a custom domain for hosting, and FairEmail as my Android app and Thunderbird as my desktop client. Pretty happy with that setup, the apps don’t do any data mining and are fully open source

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The linked site has a bit more about it, but usually you see toggle switches like that with relatively “balanced” options. “On” / “Off” are about the same width when rendered as text. It’s easy then to just make the switch big enough for the bigger option and everything’s good. What happens if you have “On” and “Some really long text option that should probably be shorter”? The image shows what it looks like toggled to “On”, and then goes over two solutions, neither of which are great options:

• Use the smallest size and cut off the larger text. Not really a viable option
• Use the longest size, but when the shorter option is toggled to, you’re left with a bunch of blank space

Related, pagination can still get broken if you try hard enough. Some sites have pagination, but bump up the id of old posts every time there’s a new post, so it’s still useless because the links will change content

There’s actually a proposal for various new HTML elements, including a switch:

https://open-ui.org/components/switch.explainer/

It’s a little bit harder than you think, because people will definitely do things like this, and they have to account for that sort of behavior:

It is nice to see that they’re working on it, where “they” means part of the W3C (so not just random nobodies):

The purpose of the Open UI, a W3C Community Group, is to allow web developers to style and extend built-in web UI components and controls, such as <select> dropdowns, checkboxes, radio buttons, and date/color pickers.

To do that, we’ll need to fully specify the component parts, states, and behaviors of the built-in controls, as well as necessary accessibility requirements, and provide test suites to ensure compatibility. We’ll also implement polyfills for our extensible web UI controls.

Today, component frameworks and design systems reinvent common web UI controls to give designers full control over their appearance and behavior. We hope to make it unnecessary to reinvent built-in UI controls, but for those who choose to do so, we expect that these design systems will benefit from Open UI’s specifications and test suites.

Long term, we hope that Open UI will establish a standard process for developing high-quality UI controls suitable for addition to the web platform.

It’s federated, just not to the ActivityPub universe, right? People have been able to join rooms on discuss.online using their matrix.org accounts, which to me counts as federated.