The developers of Lemmy held an extensive AMA. Here are some of the highlights and themes of the things they talked about.

An online forum is a great place to ask questions and generally seek advice on what you want to do with technology. I spend a bit of time each day catching up on the latest discussions across maybe a half dozen or so technical fora. On some of them I am a heavy contributor, and on others I generally lurk, just gleaning insights and keeping up with the latest conversations. Having been involved with technical forums for the past thirty years or so I’ve seen plenty of good and bad practices, and in this post I am going to share five tips on what I think are valuable and practical considerations for posting queries to technical forums.

Dedicated forums mean conversations can’t be interrupted.

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Anything beyond simple media consumption or limited writing (like a text or an MPU post) are just too tedious, with too many “pokes at the screen” (as Jobs would say). Text selection Getting the Select | Select all | … thing to pop up, or not to pop up. Saving files. Using Share to, then Print then pinch/spread to create a PDF. It’s just tedious. It’s better with a keyboard and mouse connected, but then it’s a laptop. I have a laptop for laptopping. Maybe it’s just me.