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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I wish communities could be grouped in some way.

    or not 🤷‍♂️

    Sure it’s more practical, but your whole community (as in “people”) is now centralized on a single point. If you have a single one “gaming” community, and it disappears or is taken over, you lose everything and need to start over from scratch. If you have 3-4 communities spread across different instances, if one of those communities become unusable, it’s easier to abandon it to become active on the next one.

    Decentralization is not a silver bullet, but as we’ve seen during the last year with Twitter and Reddit, it’s better than the alternative. Nothing prevents you to subscribe to several similar communities, each with its own flavor, and participate in the one(s) you want.















  • I’m pretty vanilla with my plugins:

    • Omnisearch - disclaimer, I’m the main dev
    • ReadItLater - a scraper to quickly save articles that I reference in my own notes
    • Excalidraw
    • Linter - mainly to automatically format my notes with a createdAt metadata and an h1 title
    • Dataview - I don’t use it extensively but I have a few js snippets to query external APIs like Github or Mastodon

    I try to avoid plugins that stray from “standard” markdown, to not rely on Obsidian.