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Where are you located?

IIRC, Catodon development is currently halted (https://catodon.social/notes/9rl77swzw25jjq7x).

Sharkey I don’t know

There really is a whole *keys forks lore ha ha

To me, FireFish got replaced by IceShrimp. Good looking interface, nice features (Antenna) and regular releases.

I share your pain… No solutions for you however, sorry

I hope too

Yes, that’s why I always link Mbin nowadays

They are working on it: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/59

You can try IceShrimp, their Antenna systems seems to be what you are looking for: https://iceshrimp.dev/iceshrimp/iceshrimp

If you look at any profile page, it’s the classic Mastodon layout: https://veganism.social/@mascottus

The probably just customized the home page

If you really want something a bit less austere than Mastodon you can have a look at https://iceshrimp.social/

What happens when someone posts to a local version of a community whose home instance no longer exists? I assume local users can see the post, but it doesn’t federate to any other instances?

Correct

Agree with your other point too

Good luck!

I found my latest job there. Some companies tend to mostly post in LinkedIn rather than other job boards. I guess it’s probably country dependent

Forgejo?

Indeed, but the issue is when one third of the population is there

There are many communities that are similar on different instances, firefox for example.

Sometimes they are identical and should merge, sometimes due to the specific audience of the instance, it’s better to keep them separate.

I wouldn’t suggest merging !movies@lemmy.world and !movies@hexbear.net

Would be nice if lemmy supports something like multi Reddit with the option of hiding duplicate posts.

Mbin does support multireddits, but this doesn’t seem to be interesting enough for people to switch to it (while Lemmy communities are fully accessible from Mbin)

Just being able to see interesting job posts in my field and area

But if you would like to contribute to Fediverse project, I would say that the current link aggregator options would have more impact:

• if you know Rust: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
• if you know Java: https://github.com/sublinks
• if you know PHP: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/
• if you know Python: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/

• https://iceshrimp.dev/iceshrimp/iceshrimp
• https://fedidb.org/software/iceshrimp

A lot of them have been abandoned now.

Indeed, we should definitely consolidate

Does anybody know how often the https://fedipact.veganism.social/?v=2 is updated? Some instances defederated a few weeks ago but still appear as federated