Good point, I use that feature from time to time on myself when I want to find back a comment I made that can be useful
It’s a lot safer to bookmark your own posts/replies than it is to allow easy searching of posts/users across all instances. “Convince” is what got us into the social media hellscape we’re in today.
Sometimes a comment only turns out to be useful weeks after it's made.
allow easy searching of posts/users across all instances
Lemmy allows that already : https://lemmy.zip/search?q=+&type=All&listingType=All&creatorId=24759872&page=1&sort=TopAll&titleOnly=false
If you want to try Piefed, there's https://piefed.zip/
You would need to be able to search saved posts which would also be useful, but not nearly as much.
I’m not sure we’re understanding each other.
I’m saying you save the interesting content via bookmark before you lose it. If you lose track of it, it wasn’t that interesting. If you have that “wait that reminds me of this post” moment and don’t save it, don’t go treading on my privacy to find your “ah hah” retort.
And I'm saying you can encounter the same issue of not finding a post whether you save it or not. If you suggest saving content to reference later, there also needs to be a way to search within those saved posts. Otherwise, it’s essentially the same problem as not being able to find it without having saved it.
I don't really see support for following users in the lemmyverse either, now that you mention it...
You can go to a user's profile and click the bell icon and that will notify you of any new posts by that user. In piefed anyway. Don't know if it's an option in Lemmy.
I follow a few folks that way, and get notifications of their posts
Oh, you're right! I've only recently started following communities this way.
Looking on a Lemmy instance, no, I don't see an option to follow.
@jollyroberts @Bonus I follow a few Lemmy accounts from Mastodon this way too
Yeah, it's just a little weird following here from there but I do the same though.
Kbin had it. I don't know about Mbin.
Mbin also has this. But I never figured out how this works (started out in Kbin, moved to Mbin).
If you know the user's home instance, you can see all of their posts by writing the user's name in the URL, this way: https://piefed.ee/u/Tuuktuuk .
There you can see all posts and comments I've written. You could, of course, also check the same in https://piefed.zip/u/Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee , but as you can see, it's missing some of the content I have written. Better use the URL of my home instance if you for some reason want to see what I've been writing here.
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