Wow, never knew this existed. I usually don’t use gimp all that much compared to inkscape - so I’m not sure if it’s worth the trouble…but this is very nice. I honestly don’t know what they wouldn’t pull these settings into the default gimp, even if only as an alternative skin option you can select.

The major drawback of gimp for many people is the interface, I think. That’s why blender has really taken off since it’s UI/UX update.

Thanks! I might end up taking you up on that offer and sending you a DM to ask some questions, especially if we don’t end up finding someone else to join.

It would be nice if at the minimum we could have someone experienced look through our setup and ensure we are not missing something critical to properly function/be secure.

Exactly - I am hoping to find some smaller, close knit communities that align with our own to federate with. The goal isn’t to create another instance full of news feeds and etc…but instead I want to try and build a community that is focused on valuable interactions/collaboration and working to improve and contribute to the creative commons and open source community.

Oh, this is quite interesting - never heard of it before. I think this could definitely work to an extent, but I am already so deep down the rabbit hole for MediaWiki. Plus, I think MediaWiki is actually a great fit for this type of community, because it is community created, and has rollbacks of edits, and the community itself is able to collaborate and contribute very easily. While it isn’t in the fediverse, I think it will “essentially” be connected via the forum that is within the subdomain. The intent is for the forum and wiki to work side by side, and the forum will be the connection into the fediverse.

Regardless though, neodb.net is really cool - thanks for sharing :) I’ll definitely look into it more!

Sorry for the late reply, but yeah I tried both ways.

It’s me, the same person - just commenting from Lemmy/piefed. hello me!

Oh, I’m dumb - that makes more sense. Thank you!

Because you mentioned it might be a bug, I want to see if I am doing this correctly:

It says pending, and I remember this was one of the issues when I had bot fight mode on in cloudflare and the following of user profiles wouldn’t work in /world.

Is this the similar to the same issue?

Is this how I would correctly be adding an incoming community to a “similar Communities” section?

Well, I’m glad I wasn’t crazy then. :)

Yeah, but it was empty for me. Might require login or something. Or maybe there are just no related communities?

Eh, either way - not a big deal lol

Ok, that’s good news! Also, I checked the activitypub.space, and see they have a related communities section, but it wasn’t clickable for me (maybe it just requires login, or some other simple issue inm missing) - regardless that is a great feature and might be a good way to pull content into the forum without muddying the content within my primary categories. :)

Thank you.

1. I’ll definitely check out Anubis and your configuration to see if it will work for my scenario.
2. Ok, good to know - if it’s simply a bug then that that’s fine, mostly I wanted to make sure it wasn’t an indicator that something deeper was broken or getting blocked in the communication.
3. Sorry, I used the term instance when I meant community. But it sounds like the federation is more so to bring traffic into the forum, rather then out. Did I understand that correctly? If that is the case, then I may not opt to use it - as I was originally hoping for a way to push forum content into communities. I’ll explore this further I guess - because I’m unfamiliar with relays and fedibuzz.

Overall, I appreciate the detailed response :)

[Edit, for archival purposes]: I looked into Anubis, and it looks like a great option, but I have my nodeBB forum installed via Cloudron, and just a quick rudimentary search reveals that it may be difficult to set up alongside Cloudron. This post: https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/13957/deploying-anubis-ai-crawler-filtering-on-a-cloudron-server/7 shows an example of using a second vps to accomplish it, but …well it requires a second vps. If anyone comes up with a solution in the future and stumbles across this post, I’d love to hear how you worked it out.

Can mbin browse Lemmy/piefed? I would love to only use one app/login if possible. If one application can correctly view/post to each service - then it would seem logical to just use the one. I might switch to mbin If it can browse Lemmy content.

Pretty cool! Be neat to see how it can be used in application

Thanks for the detailed response.

One of the major issues is that I am not paying at all for any LLM, and only using free Claude projects (Claude code I think requires a paid API)

So this vastly limits my context and capabilities.

Regardless - this is some solid advice I will definitely try to apply.

As for the rules:

1. Main website’s rule page - yeah this isn’t yet implemented.
2. Are you talking about the actual rulebook: https://github.com/GreenAnts/Amalgam_Webgame/tree/main/assets/Rulebook . Because if so, these 5 pages I thought were very well outlined if you actually read the pages in order and in their entirety. If these are the ones you actually read, and are still confused, than that is good to know and means I need to revamp my rulebook.
3. The YouTube rules walkthrough exists, and is linked in the main GitHub Repo.

Other than that though, thanks so much for all the advice and tips - I will try to optimize an API/documentation of the rules.

I understand why you’re getting downvoted, but at the same time - I completely understand the sentiment. In a perfect world, you’re right, we should be able to reuse what we have and our society is utterly obsessed with consumerism. But being realistic and practical - that’s not going to happen for many reasons, at least not in our lifetime.

But I think that creating something that will last, is repairable, and open source is a step in the right direction and is better than the current alternatives. I’m not saying we shouldn’t continue to advocate and push for the ideals of what you are saying - but we shouldn’t push away progress in the right direction as we fight for those ideals. It doesn’t have to be “one or the other” it can be a multipronged approach that advocates for the ideal scenario while accepting small incremental progress as well.

I’m not saying this specific product is or is not the solution (it might be a terrible product or the people behind the product might have terrible intentions, idk. . . But the idea of products build to last, be repairable, and open for improvement, etc etc is a good step forward in my mind. Ehh, my 2 cents.

I think it might largely depends on your 1. Career/job/ or even hobby requirements 2. Where you live (government agencies requiring paper documents, signatures, etc)

Oh, ok - I see what you are saying. To use that community to federate with. Yeah that’s a great idea - and I’ll definitely keep it in mind once I eventually switch over to nodeBB :)

Oooh this is a nice sub :) Do you think that a forum community counts as something I made to cross post there?

Yeah, I totally feel this - and it’s one of the major drawbacks that I mentioned in the article. To compromise my sanity (of possibly spending a lot of time, and some money) with not losing all the progress of th community - my plan is to transfer early.

It’s not the perfect solution - I admit, but I feel that if I can just get a small handful (maybe 10-15 people are semi active/committed to the goal of the community) then I’d feel comfortable transitioning because I know we have a decent foundation to grow off from. But mainly I’m using this free hosting platform just to make sure there are actual people who are interested, and it’s not dead idea on arrival.

I will be honest though, the more I’ve been trying to get this community started - the more I’m tempted to just bite the bullet and go strait to buying a VPS and domain to set up nodeBB. I think if I can just get the feeling that people are actually interested and it’s not going to be a waste of my resources, then I might just do that.

Super valid point though. (I might even be able to find a way to save the data from this forum and preload it into the other forum - but I kind of doubt it since they are two different pieces of software)