It still is a website too, that was never abolished.

Honestly I still think that to some extent; at least I think it would be like that if we didn't have corporate social media showing us things only very selectively, but had something structured like old web forums where there was not even a way to sort by popularity.

Apps aren't even that bad an idea, by themselves. Transmitting only the actual information and not the entire UI every time is a good idea, even more so if the apps are FOSS and the services have open APIs (which admittedly is the exception).

I grew up with IRC and of course everyone seriously using it used a standalone IRC client, not a browser chat interface.

smh means shaking my head though

I have never been to India and have no intention to travel there. My imagination is that it is overcrowded, the people there are mostly polite, hard working but not especially skilled. It is definitely a relatively poor country with a lot of inequality and crime.

I think there is a subreddit that is called that or similar.

Thou shalt not delude thyself.

Thou shalt not get caught.

In the 2000s we thought user-generated content would lead to a utopian future where we got our opinions from each other rather than from big companies.

Turns out: big companies, governments and other institutions with money are perfectly capable of paying people to be "users" who are "generating content". Now we get (at least some of) our opinions from them and don't even know it.

I don't think there is any limit. The amount of nestings shouldn't even really be a database field. I think Lemmy just stores which comment was replied to and then has recursion logic to display it right.

That sounds awesome. What license will it be under? I think the world really needs a Lemmy implementation under a more permissive license than the AGPL.

Micro Four Thirds was an attempt to do that. It didn't work out so well.

Many people have tried that before. Wikis just aren't that appealing anymore. Today's internet is all about social media.