I have not found any that match the criteria I mentioned.

Just to summarize it better, I want something that has:

• vim-like philosophy of editing, with keybindings, motions and the like
• does not struggle with supporting RTL languages like Arabic (the terminal world struggles with that unfortunately)
• allows rich formatting, such as using non-monospaced fonts, and having the possibility to make different rows of text have different sizes (such as headings being bigger)

tbh if I can find something with only the first two, I can sacrifice the third one. But I still can’t find anything like that.

Thanks for the pointers!

You might hit some challenges like how to handle style elements. For example:

<cursor>*bold*

Moving the cursor to the right of the b will take two key presses in nvim but would typically be one key press in a WYSIWYG editor.

I’ve thought about this actually, and Youre right it will require some handling. In the first version of the editor, I will still include the special characters, such as the * for bolding. But I will also style it and what’s after as bold.

I really like the render-markdown plugin, but my deal breaker was RTL language, since Arabic is a native language to me that I wish to write in vim.

This worked, thank you!!

Does not yield the right results still

Yes that yields the same result. I get some results, but not any from Lemmy including the one I am looking for.

Not exactly. I want this to be a place where many users post their different feeds, so I can browse through them and subscribe to the ones I like. RSS is a great candidate for this.

You would need to use lemmy to publish the feed, right?

This does not address the searchability issue, or the complexity and cost of self hosting. I want less friction for the user who is only focused on publishing and does not care much to own their infrastructure.

I alluded in my post to why a blog would not work, but I will describe more clearly here:

• if this is done via blog, the searchability issue is not addressed. I want it possible to search through all of these feeds
• This creates large friction. I want it to be possible for the user to publish a feed without the complexity of hosting

While I love the idea, many RSS users may not use Lemmy, and I would not want to restrict the use of this to lemmy users only. But for now, this seems to be the best existing option. Thank you!

While I love the idea, many RSS users may not use Lemmy, and I would not want to restrict the use of this to lemmy users only. But for now, this seems to be the best existing option. Thank you!

My claim is admittedly not based on trying it myself. I suppose I should test out friendica and see for myself.

what do screen recording softwares for wayland use under the hood then?

My issue with Friendica is it consumes more resources, making it much more expensive to host, especially at scale.

My issue with Friendica is it consumes more resources, making it much more expensive to host, especially at scale.

My issue with MBin is similar to that of Friendica. It’s more expensive to self-host. Lemmy scales better.

What I am proposing would use the same exact lemmy backend. How would it magically use more resources with the same backend?

What you said is incorrect, the difference in features offered is not the only reason for the difference in resource utilization. Lemmy meme communities have plenty of images going around.

The argument that I want to test is that Lemmy is as up to this task as LemmyBB being a phpBB experience but with a lemmy backend. I am proposing something like that.

The reason not to go with the other alternatives is that lemmy seems to do much better on resource utilization, which would make it much easier to host and scale.

does OBS just do everything with ffmpeg, or does it introduce extra functionality?

Following users can be simulated by the client. Behind the scenes, every user will have their own community, and their personal posts will go there. If you follow the user, the client would make you follow that community behind the scenes.

But I suppose you would need to prevent other users from being able to post there, I did not consider that. Lemmy does not have that kind of permission control. So maybe this is not viable … hmm