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I tried both Lidarr and Beets before, but their automation tended to pick matches with a “eh, close enough” attitude, so I just decided I’d do it properly myself.

I tag metadata on everything with MusicBrainz Picard, and then store it in a /{Album Artist}/{Album}/{Track} hierarchy.

they’re a mastodon account @ tagging lemmy communities as a hashtag. It’s not exactly their fault the title is borked, because they’re submitting from a different platform.

“Unified branding” kinda misses the entire mark of “federated but decentralized” that this network of services is supposed to be all about.

You’ve mocked up a really clean looking theme, but I’d never use it personally because it’s light-mode and it would burn the eyeballs out of my head at night.

People also seem to be refusing to learn what federation is and how that works

Yeah, I’ve seen plenty of new communities that have already shuttered to “move to X instance where the users are” that would make me laugh if it weren’t so annoying that they’ve just decided to squat a community that could flourish locally if someone else took it over.

Tilting the keyboard allows players to align their elbows with the desk, enhancing focus and immersion.

Yeah, that’s not how ergonomics work.

Yeah, but when did ‘most common’ matter to a social network trying to push a totally different paradigm of federation?

If anything, it should be a malaysian .my TLD so it just ends up being lem.my instead, but seeing as the entire point of the Fediverse is that there’s no one central authority figure, this whole thing seems silly. 🤣

I believe this is either a major design flaw of Lemmy (or lack of any design) or it is precisely what the creators intended, and the software is being greatly misused.

The design is as intended, and everything is federated at an Instance level, not a Community level, which always seems to be the thing that doesn’t click with people. You pick a home instance, and can view content across the fediverse from that location, regardless of platform. These platforms (Lemmy, Mastodon ^[twitter], Pixelfed ^[instagram], Friendica ^[facebook], PeerTube ^[YouTube], Funkwhale ^{[Spotify-ish]}, etc…) are then independent silos of content accessible from anywhere.

I don’t think we need to split users and content into separate instances, but I agree that having a platform agnostic approach to user accounts would probably benefit the fediverse in the long run, as currently when you pick your home instance (say Mastodon, for example) that user interface becomes the window you see the rest of the Fediverse through.

Ideally, we should be able to have an account on a Mastodon instance @EccTM@mastodon.emmetcoughlan.com that could be referenced and logged into from a Pixelfed instance for that experience, then jump to a Lemmy instance and see that content through that intended UI, all while playing some music on FunkWhale in another tab. I think we could expand the current system out to make this happen in time, but most of these federated platforms are still in their infancy.