My brain hurts reading this.

Okay, I wonder if my feed was mixing threads up, because after I replied it looked like I was in a thread with a title about asking what features you like in Lemmy vs Reddit, with the text field of the question saying that they especially loved the fact that titles could be edited, so I was left confused.

I think I accidentally posted into the wrong thread somehow, this is not the thread I was in when I typed my previous reply. Or did OP edit title/post while I was replying? Because one of the responses I am seeing is the same.

Yes, it is my first time, no, I did not know that and created a Mastodon account separately once I heard of it.

What exactly is "fediverse" anyway?

that worked, thank you :)

FFXIV, most of the writing subs, Another Eden, I don't think FoundryVTT has moved yet, PF2E, there aren't nearly as many cute-animal communities yet, etc.

Windows, it's easy to set up all the games I want and I'd have to run an emulator to use a Linux distro and still play everything I want to.

The last version I paid for was Windows 7 however, I only took the Win10 upgrade when things slowly stopped working because of driver issues.

So, might I recommend having a button on the top bar that shows us the instances we've subscribed to, and maybe a quick link to the list of available instances? People like easy navigation, having to do multiple bookmarks or navigate through finding a link to the list of servers is not easy navigation.

I'm not seeing this? I am in darkmod-rede, does that make a difference?

Um, I get isekai'd into a dragon god with mirror-twin kitsune goddess as his wives? So pretty damn good, though my actual wife might object a touch.

My username is an old D&D PC of mine who has evolved greatly over the decades and is currently the pantheon head in a campaign/book setting. Not sure how else to match what the name means to the idea of the thread title.

You can expand the text of a post by clicking on the book option

Ah, I didn't see that icon. Might I suggest that the icon replace the blank thumbnail space for text posts then? Smaller than the thumbnail space, larger than the current icon. And I may have been assuming the images acted like the text posts. Hmm. Or perhaps there is not enough visual distinction between image posts and website URLs. I see now that there is an icon in the upper-right corner of the image. Maybe I just need to retrain to figure that out.

I mentioned this in another piece of the thread, so I don't know if you saw it, but a website I go to a lot (Royal Road) solved whitespace with a nice neutral-to-slightly dark landscape that everything goes over. So this way central column width could be expanded a bit without covering the whole screen.

Improving on that idea, perhaps you can even provide several options in the settings. Nothing high res, that's not the point, but a pleasant space filler.

All you have to do is retain ownership and never do an IPO.

Having shareholders in a public market makes a company go evil.

I went exploring some other sites I use to really look at them, and the one that I use for reading a lot of serial stories (Royal Road) also technically has dead space, but it has filled that dead space with a reasonably nice, neutral to slightly dark landscape. So there is something there other than void (or light if you don't use dark mode), but it's not something that demands your attention. It makes a pleasant background to have when focusing on text in the center of the screen for a long time.

That looks hideous and distracting to me. I don't want my stuff that cluttered. I wouldn't be able to focus.

That's what my other monitors are for. And that changes things from landscape format to portrait format (roughly, not exactly), and I am used to it. And if I really want to be focused on a website, I want its main information right in front of me. Just wider.

I think it should look a bit more like old.reddit + RES (though not a copy). Pretty much if the choice is between looking more like old.reddit + RES or looking like new Reddit, go with the old.

Some specific issues I am seeing:

Half my screen is dead space, and why is the sidebar right up against the main column of text?

Extraneous stuff should be right (or left, depending on layout) justified, putting space between the main content and the sidebar. Also, let the center column be wider if someone has a wider screen.

I would like to be able to expand text or images without going all the way into the post. Basically, push everything else down and show the post, but leave the user on the front page and don't load the comments.

No idea yet, we'll see what comes.

What's wrong with helping a country defend itself from invasion by imperial warmongers?

And to be clear, yes, I am calling Russia imperial warmongers. They have been actively invading neighboring countries for decades to expand themselves. And what is an empire if not a nation built on the conquest of other countries?

Supporting Ukraine is the only U.S. military action since WW2 that I can truly support. Even our action in response to 9/11 was fucked up.