That’s pretty much been my experience, as well.

It’s a timeline approach. So, I just enter notes for each day. I’ve developed a habit of just putting things down when I need, including random stuff, links to Slack conversations, etc. I then use tags to bind things together, and there are a couple of plugins in use.

I’ve been using Logseq at work and I LOOOOVE it.

No.

Depends on the context, I think. For me, I rarely do it for personal stuff. If I wanted to be perfect, I could do it, assuming a signature is available to verify, but I’m lazy. I would venture to say most folks don’t do it either.

With that being said, where I have been consistent about doing it has been writing config management code at work. If I need to have it download an installer from an untrusted source, I can verify that I’m installing the same package on all servers by verifying the signature before installation. This doesn’t always work well in all circumstances, though.

It would probably be helpful if others knew what platforms you preferred to use. 🙂

If you’re in Apple’s ecosystem, I’m personally fond of Reeder.

I’m sorry, I still don’t quite follow what you want. What does it mean to access the entire Fediverse?

Well, an instance is only going to have access to the data that’s federated to it, which I’m pretty sure was the same situation with Usenet.

It sounds like your issue has to do with Mastodon’s lack of full-text search, perhaps?

What exactly does it mean to be Usenet-like, in terms of a Fediverse experience?

Yeah, they were pretty amazing back in the day when you spent time actually using them to talk on the phone.

I used to run FreshRSS and it worked well. I now use an app that just pulls feeds directly and syncs to iCloud. It isn’t quite as good as FreshRSS, but it works fine for me.

As far as I know, Lemmy doesn’t have a way of following anyone else on the Fediverse, but you can certainly follow Lemmy users from Mastodon.

In the Mastodon web interface, you can take the URL of the Lemmy community and paste it into the search bar. After you press Enter, the community should show up, and you can follow it.

Another way to reference the community is using @ notation. For this community, you’d reference @technology@beehaw.org in Mastodon.

I use Ivory to access my Mastodon account, and I’ve found that it doesn’t recognize URLs from Lemmy at all. So, the @ notation works best there. Regardless, the Mastodon web interface handles it all properly.

Following this attack, Linus Torvalds will switch to Windows.

ROFL

Something like this, perhaps?

https://lemmy.world/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/All/sort/Hot/page/1

It shows what’s hot across all communities on Lemmy.world, which is a pretty big instance, as far as I know. If they’re interested in joining a Lemmy server, they could probably join Lemmy.world, but they may wish to try a different one. In that case, the following is a good place to start.

https://join-lemmy.org/instances

Hope that helps.