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you know the computer thing is it plugged in?

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... Because I have to look it up all the time now. :]

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

In Voyager it shows up when searching for "iitt". Same on https://lemmyverse.net/.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago

I have to look it up all the time

just like IT work ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

i7t12.

When I'm searching for it, I just put in six or so i's.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Lemmy should allow aliases for communities so we could use eyetea

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Ooo. That's ugly. Way to go.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

I'm not known for the ability to name things well. Pray you'll never see my folder structure and folder/file names.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, it does? Or you mean the display name vs the actual community lemmy address?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Ahh yeah, that's a neat feature.

I realize now that alias is not exactly what I meant: maybe a better word would be 'keywords' set for a community that could be used in lemmy search.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

I mean that's exactly how the display names work.
You can search for either display name or address.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I meant more generally: a community could set a list of keywords that they could be found by, e.g. this community could have

  • memes
  • information technology
  • it
  • satire

so we could also have a keyword search possibly:

Image of lemmy search with the word "information technology" in the search bar and settings set to community filter

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

i suggested categories a few times, but i have no idea how to suggest it to devs. also i deleted my github account.

categories could later even be used to subscribe new usrers to lots of stuff they are interested in... or unsubscribe things you no longer like.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Voyager has something similar to that! "Community starterpacks" for new users:

screenshot from voyager app's starterpack-view

A really cool feature and lowers the barrier for new users. But I agree would be neat if these things would be baked into lemmy somehow, like your categories idea.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

7x i

12x t

:-/