. . . you’re telling a bot to stop linking something. It automatically pulls top posts from Hackernews and rebroadcasts them here.

I get it that many Lemmy users came across during the blackout of reddit (myself included), but prefering Lemmy doesn’t change the fact a lot of good discourse still happens on reddit. Not linking reddit self posts at this point would exclude a fair bit of content trending in the background on Hackernews, Linkedin, or any of the other large social platforms wihch all cross-post.

No, it really doesn’t. https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007321171-Can-I-send-SMS-MMS-with-Signal-

It used to; however, the functionality only existed on the Android version, and they got rid of it.

Everything I hear about Helix makes it sound compelling, and I think I will need to try it out someday. I think the biggest problem for me, as someone who isn’t a software dev, isn’t anything inherent to Helix itself, but instead historical: a version of vi exists on every *nix system. By being good at vi, it doesn’t matter where I ssh into, I can use the editor easily. I think if I had more of a use case for an editor for writing large amounts of code that would be different, but for someone who doesn’t have to write much in the first place it’s easier just to focus on the more universal option.