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Not the primary image, though I'd bet that you can stick an image inline in the body in spoiler text. You couldn't get a thumbnail then, but I think that might be undesirable anyway if you're wanting to hide the image by default.

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Looks like it.

Americans have grown smug. They've never seen war at home. Not truly.

Outside of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, no adversary in war has ever had the military ability to significantly impact the contiguous US, and while that may well happen one day, it isn't gonna be Iran of 2024 who changes that run.

It's also not likely that any country will have that ability near term outside of a preemptive nuclear strike, and a country set on doing that has to be able to counter or accept the US response, which I don't anticipate any country doing in the near future.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/we-asked-a-military-expert-if-the-whole-world-could-conquer-the-united-states/

More-realistic concerns might be terrorism or economic pressure.

In frontends, I'd like to have the option to not show displaynames, or at least show real usernames next to displaynames.

If you want to reference a user using @username@instance syntax, you need to know their username, and while the displaynames can be cute, I've just never seen a really compelling argument for them. I also haven't seen anyone abusing them yet, but they seem likely to be trouble from a "trying to impersonate someone else" standpoint.

Reddit Markdown lets one use italics inside links, like so:

I like [the author of *A Game of Thrones*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin).

However, Lemmy does not presently support this syntax, renders it as:

I like the author of A Game of Thrones.

I frequently want to have partially-styled links like this, particularly italics.

EDIT: Okay, I just discovered that apparently this has been implemented since the last time I tried it. Thanks, devs!

IIRC kbin/mbin have that, but I don't recall whether it applies to all posted material or just a user's microblog.

I never used it myself, as I really prefer the Reddit-style "community-oriented" structure to the Twitter-style "user-oriented" structure.

Such as?

That can be done client-side. I don't use the feature, but from a brief glance, it looks like the Android client I use when I'm on a phone, Eternity, supports it.

Probably slightly less efficient than supporting it at the API level.

RES is huge. Any specific must-have features?

I got tempbanned for 48 hours in a community recently after not noticing that a mod was objecting to some posts and had deleted a couple until after the ban went in place.

I'd kind of like to have some way to have a higher-priority indicator that a post was deleted or "message from moderator" or something. Preferably a different indicator from just "waiting regular messages", and a way to view mod warnings or messages from moderators.

There's a last-edited time, which I think should provide a superset of that information.

considers

Maybe have clients/Web UI more-clearly highlight if a response predated the last parent edit, which is I think the case where that really becomes an issue.

Honestly, I haven't actually seen anyone involved in bad-faith edits in conversations here. I've even seen people regularly thank people who provide corrections before correcting their post to credit the correction. Obviously, that doesn't mean that it's true everywhere or will last, but from a community standpoint, that's one area where I've been pretty happy with people here.

I whitelist rather than blacklist. I browse Subscribed normally. I think that under the existing system, that's the only realistic way to scale. Hit lemmyverse.net or similar periodically to look for new, interesting communities, but the whole thing is gonna be a firehose.

I do understand that BlueSky has some sort of "curated lists" feature that sounds interesting, and I've thrown around some ideas around having curation decoupled from community/instance bans and global voting.

There are a bunch of websites that provide polling services out there. Can link off-site.

I'd bet that they're probably more-resistant to stuffing the polls, if that's a concern, since they aren't tied to a Threadiverse identity, which is "cheap" -- someone can control many identities and that's an intended Threadiverse feature.

Another issue is that the messaging system today on the Threadiverse isn't really private, so if it's based on that and you want private polling...shrugs