Sibbo

@Sibbo@sopuli.xyz

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Sibbo,

Quick hide, before the foundation sees it!

Sibbo,

Nyt toimii uudestaan

Sibbo,

Lol, they are experimenting on their users, and doing so in the bad way.

Sibbo,

Weird. But blocking people from using VPNs may be a genuine attempt at fighting spam. However if they do it in secret, then it's questionable.

Reddit r/rust is discussing the possibility of moving to Lemmy. If you are still an active Reddit user, please consider giving it some upvotes to show your support. (old.reddit.com)

If you haven't heard the news, Reddit is making some drastic, user-hostile changes. This is essentially the final stage of any ad-supported and VC-funded platform's inevitable march towards enshittification....

Sibbo,

Wow, didn't know the people making Lemmy were that bad and deny genocides. But I also don't have time to read and understand all the old posts, and I have no idea who the people are who are talking abotu this, so it is incredibly hard to say if it is trustworthy or not. Would be interesting to get a statement from the lemmy developers today about this, to see what they think about the uighur thing and north korea today.

Sibbo,

That has the disadvantage that it's moderation policies may not be in line with the rust code of conduct. But having independent communities next to the official one would be great anyways, to facilitate independent discussion.

Sibbo,

Opinion is one thing, spreading propaganda from terrorist states like China or North Korea is another.

Sibbo,

Mein Vermieter

Sibbo,

This may be against reddits TOS and may have legal consequences. But I guess mostly for the person operating the bot, and not the Lemmy instance, as long as they block the bot on request.

Sibbo,

I have no idea, but at least in EU you may be violating copyright by copying someone else’s database (i.e. collection of data). I am not a lawyer though…

Sibbo,

Monthly active users doesn't really tell much in that short timeframe. This is just the sum of new user accounts, and people that came back

Sibbo,

Banners are nice! If the front end has issues with them, then hopefully using them makes that more obvious, and then the Devs prioritise it 🙂

A two billion dollar company runs on a single Postgres instance. So Postgres will always be enough for Lemmy. (www.figma.com)

I am often wondering if large webservices can run on old-school monolithic relational databases. It would be great because being able to simply model your applications data model as a set of SQL tables with strong constraints about data types and relations has huge benefits. But a single computer can only have that many cores...

Sibbo,

If you want to start contributing to a complex open source project, there are different approaches depending on how well prepared the project is for new contributors.

Some projects label some issues as "good first issue." If you find those, go ahead and comment into the issue that you are interested in resolving it. It helps to discuss first what you want to change, and especially ask if the issue is still relevant and the text in the issue still up to date. You may then even get some help and some pointers what to watch out for when implementing, which help you understand the code better.

If there are no such issues but you have some ideas anyways, you could create an issue and discuss the idea.

If you don't have any own ideas, you can make an issue asking what issues are good for first timers.

But in the end, always communicate, and sometimes also don't fear to create a prototype if the community around a project does not seem to know well what they want for certain issues.

Sibbo,

That is a great approach! I think if you manage to set it up yourself, the project may benefit from a pull request with a dev setup guide 😉

How was the transition from HRTBs to lifetime GATs for you?

I have so far transformed two crates that have iterable-like properties in traits from using HRTBs to GATs. And I was seriously surprised how easy it was. The compiler gave me all the hints I needed to make everything compile. And there were only minor changes required, like removing lifetime arguments from traits or changing...

Use of the Fediverse. (lemmy.ml)

Alright! So one fine day I decided to check the Fediverse out and eventually joined mastodon. I've downloaded the Megalodon app on my phone and everything. And now I'm at a loss on what to do with it. In reality, how do you use Mastodon? I've never used Twitter before, so I'm completely new to this form of social media. All I...

Sibbo,

Lemmy bans just like reddit does?

Sibbo,

Twitter is interesting when you follow people that are central to something, who keep their feeds clean. For example, someone posting about their three different hobbies and their job and family is very annoying if you are only interested in one of that.

Twitter alleviates that a bit by promoting posts that they classify as "interesting", which I think are those that get a lot of interaction. Maybe also other things. This way, you can follow a heap of people but you will see updates from the more interesting ones first.

Mastodon on the other hand just gives you a raw stream. Which is pretty boring because people tend to talk about all kinds of topics, and only few actually curate their content. And even if you follow just the curated content, it is very easy to miss some interesting stuff if you happen to not read every single post in your timeline.

Mastodon alleviates that by boosting, which puts a pushes a post on top of your timeline again. But then you only see it if you are looking at the timeline while someone is boosting. There is also some sort of a trending page being developed on there, but it is only for posts that get boosted at least five times or so, and it is not necessarily related to your interests. A bit like Reddits "all" community.

Reddit and Lemmy seem to combine the best of both worlds. Posts are sorted into communities that revolve around certain topics. So you can choose which topic to follow. And you never need to weigh following a person because they post about interesting thing A, but also boring thing B. You can choose to share only your common interests with that person by participating in the same community. Much like friendships work in real life.

On top of that, Reddit and Lemmy employ a voting mechanism to present the topics that appear most interesting to most users first. This is great, because even within a topical community, there are various subtopics to discuss, and not all are most relevant all the time. Also, naturally people say sometimes more interesting things, and sometimes less interesting things. And sometimes people spend more effort on a post and sometimes less. All totally natural things, but things that make participating into a larger community hard. Voting alleviates that, because people don't need to think if what they post is interesting to the community at the moment, but the community decides that democratically.

Reddit and Lemmy also allow following users (not sure if Lemmy already does), so one can still follow that one cool rock star or that one CEO or that one journalist that posts only interesting things about various topics.

Sibbo,

This is more of an ELI75 lol

Sibbo,

I saw you locked one off-topic post. It would be nice if you would also add a comment to such posts why it was locked. Otherwise if people randomly stumble upon such posts, it may leave the impression that the mods ban random things.

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