Yeah, it’s made more for refining and confirming details than for adding entirely new objects.

When I want to add something that’s not on the map yet, I either add a note in StreetComplete and come back to it later on my computer, or I add it using Vespucci. (I’ve been known to add items using Vespucci, then reload the data on StreetComplete so I can fill in details that aren’t in the presets and that I can’t remember how to tag manually!)

Hmm, a quick look at the html on the logged-out view of a post with lots of comments shows no sign of a meta robots tag, so the pages are technically crawlable. this one

But it looks like only about 25 comments out of 439 are in the html on that first page view, so probably only those will be picked up by a crawl?

Fedora for my main desktop, mainly because I’ve been upgrading it piece by piece since the stone age, but also because it splits the difference between a fully rolling distribution and a slower one. Most of the tools I use for hobbyist stuff are Linux-native anyway.

I also dual-boot into Windows 10 for gaming. I plan on avoiding Windows 11 as long as I can!

For my day job, I have an office-supplied Macbook.

If my instance closes down, will I lose control over all of the copied content from my previous account

Once the old instance is gone, yes. If it fails suddenly and never comes back up, there’s not much that can be done about that, unfortunately.

If the old server closes up shop in a planned way, and the admins give you enough advance notice, you can take whatever steps you want before the shutdown.

I’m not sure if Lemmy has this feature, but some servers (Mastodon, off the top of my head) have a “self-destruct” mode to send out delete notices during a planned shutdown. It’s not a 100% guarantee that all the other copies will go away, but neither is deleting a random post from an active server!

By that logic, there’s no point in ever deleting anything online, so why even bother with hiding them? Just leave everything up there forever, whether the person who wrote it still wants it to be there or not.

Also, not everyone has the time, programming skills and resources to just fork a project, never mind run their own server. That’s not a constructive approach to a “this feature ought to work better” discussion.

Mastodon has the same fatal flaw. They want to keep your history and relationships hostage so you can’t leave.

You can migrate your relationships to a new Mastodon server.

And while you can’t directly transfer the history (the debate over how/whether to do this has gone on for literally years), you can export an archive you can keep locally, and there are tools out there to parse it and convert it to some other form (static website, whatever). Someone’s probably written an importer by now, though I’d have to look.

The fact that other copies might be out there (assuming a crawler archived the particular page while a post was up) isn’t a reason not to remove the copies you can control.

#Bookwyrm is a book review site like Goodreads

#WriteFreely is a blogging service, and Medium is actually working on Fediverse integration.

Some that exist on here, but aren’t active:

• !nextcloud@lemmy.ml
• !pine64@lemmy.ml
• !minecraft@lemmy.ml

Even just caching the not-logged-in views can be a big help, as I’ve found with self-hosted WordPress.