tasbir49 1y ago • 87%
Until federation is better at coordinating deletions to other Lemmy instances and Kbin (check this thread on kbin, the comments are only removed because I reported them to the instance admin), the API redacts removed comment content instead of just returning a flag that says removed, and the trolling with NSFW imagery and usernames with slurs is reduced, I'm gonna refrain from posting on Lemmy.
tasbir49 1y ago • 100%
This adds a lot of legitimacy to the fediverse
tasbir49 1y ago • 100%
The potential liability for instance owners due to this is massive. Images should be stored in the instances of the community they're posted to.
tasbir49 1y ago • 100%
No lol. Reddit has a near 20 year headstart.
tasbir49 1y ago • 100%
Do you have a link to these tools that you're coding? I'd be happy to help you out myself.
EDIT:
Until federation is better at coordinating deletions to other Lemmy instances and Kbin (check this thread on kbin, the comments are only removed because I reported them to the instance admin), the API redacts removed comment content instead of just returning a flag that says removed, and the trolling with NSFW imagery and usernames with slurs is reduced, I’m gonna refrain from posting on Lemmy.
tasbir49 1y ago • 100%
It has huge potential impacts. There are kids who get excluded from social groups for having Android
tasbir49 1y ago • 100%
I've noticed it as well. My guess is that the average age of someone on reddit is decreasing, and combine that with the popularity of call-out culture you have what you have.
tasbir49 1y ago • 100%
Ahhh. Well what's better overall is gonna be fairly subjective. Php in itself was made for serving web pages with dynamic content. It came first so there's a lot of resources to learn it, more established libraries, and there are more people who know how to code with it. Ernest having experience with PHP is likely a big contributor in his choice to use it
Rust is more efficient in terms of performance because it's purpose was to replace C, a language that is "close to hardware" (not really but for the purpose of this explanation just assume it). Meaning a coder can deal with things manually that PHP normally does for them. This is a double edged sword because manually doing things allows you to find efficiency in things that something like PHP would miss, but it also gives a lot more opportunities to mess something up.
So in terms of performance I would say
Perfectly Written Rust > PHP > Badly written Rust.
The subjective part comes from how well you think the Rust is coded in Lemmy. So just choose which one you like more.
tasbir49 1y ago • 100%
What part are you having trouble understanding?
Lemmy and Kbin basically just use the same protocol for exchanging information.
Both are similar in that they interpret and present that information in a way that looks similar to Reddit which is why you can see a community on Lemmy as a magazine on kbin and vice versa. In addition Kbin also can interpret it in a way that resembles twitter.
They both started with the protocol but the way they store, serve, and present the information from the protocol is different. For example, I think Kbin stores the information that shows who upvoted what, but I don't think Lemmy does.
tasbir49 1y ago • 100%
Perhaps. One of the threads on kbin has three comments from lemmy. Two of those Lemmy servers were on 0.17 but there was one on 0.18
Anyone notice their comments are not appearing on kbin at all?
tasbir49 1y ago • 100%
Setting up an instance would be more difficult too I assume
tasbir49 1y ago • 100%
Does the application not keep track of IP addresses used to register or anything like that?
So far, I think the admins have done an exemplary job in running this instance. They managed to keep it active with many users, keep it error free, and their reaction to the defederation of beehaw was level headed and reasonable. When it comes to things that a successful instance needs, this one has a lot of them. Also it's Canadian which is pretty based However, this place needs a privacy policy. I think users are entitled to know exactly what info about them is kept, how it's used, and how long it's kept for. This information included on almost every website and it's a big red flag if a site doesn't have one. Just to be clear, **I'm not trying to insinuate that the admins are trying to steal our info or anything like that**. Since they have a lot on their plate already with keeping the server online, this is probably something that fell through the cracks, which is bound to happen when one volunteers their time and money to cultivating a community and handling all the infrastructure involved in that. Nevertheless I think it's crucial to have one.
tasbir49 1y ago • 0%
These are legitimate complaints. Sure the issues raised about the platform are an artifact of it being in its infancy but you can't expect the average person to deal with those issues. The fediverse and decentralization in general as a concept is hard to grasp in a world where people are used to centralized applications and where such applications, let's face it, are simpler.
There's a lot that needs to be done before Lemmy can become truly viable. Better moderation tools are needed or more instances will defederate from one another. The UI could be more intuitive. The algorithm that lists posts on the front page needs to push more recent posts to the top. It'll get there eventually.
tasbir49 1y ago • 100%
How thoughful of them!