funkyb

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funkyb,

Yea that’s not explained better than a math teach. They just swapped notation common in math, for notation common in one specific programming language. it’s only easier for the audience who happens to be familiar with programming in general, and that language in particular.

funkyb,

no it isn’t. My interest in Lemmy is not romantic and if you do agree with this, get out and engage people in person more often.

funkyb,

FYI - the results you see are unique to you. Other people doing the exact same thing can see a different set of results.

funkyb,

no.

funkyb,

this also happens to me.

HubertManne, to RedditMigration
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30 DAYS TO GET MY DATA! So I put in a data requet last week with reddit and it said it would take a few days. Yesterday I inquired to its status as I had not received anything and they repsonded that it might take 30 days. Im not sure if this is bs to keep their account numbers up or they are just innundated with requests.

funkyb,

I'm pretty sure 30d (or 1 calendar month) is simply the regulatory deadline (for both CPRA/CPPA & GDPR). This is normal.

Slate article: "How CEO Steve Huffman went from being Reddit's co-founder to its much-needed savior at a difficult moment—and how he then became the villain..." (indieweb.social)

took a deep dive into how CEO Steve Huffman went from being Reddit's co-founder to its much-needed savior at a difficult moment—and how he then became the villain at the center of Reddit's still-raging protests: https://slate.com/technology/2023/06/reddit-protests-steve-huffman-api-chaos.html

funkyb,

you have to go back many years before that for the eras it's referring to.

funkyb,

have you subscribed to much yet? My "new" feed is a constant flood of new posts (so much that I have to manually change the page # to '0' to avoid that refresh bug.

funkyb,

Yea I had it set to never use custom CSS, imo was much better that way.

funkyb,

I still use both, but I have found myself spending a lot more time on Lemmy than Kbin simply because QoL features are a bit better. For example, being able to expand images inline isntead of having to navigate to a new page or tab.

funkyb,

you can create an account and login, sure, but you don't need to. You're already reading and commenting on a kbin post right here.

funkyb,

no love for the Relay expats?

The best way to protest against reddit is simply to not interact with Reddit

I see a lot of posts about how they uploaded anti-spez stuff onto reddit, or participated in the nsfw spams/john oliver spams. While I get wanting to let it all out, this ultimately keeps up engagement on reddit rather than bringing it down....

funkyb,

See here's the thing - if you are worried about protesting reddit, that inherently means you're hoping to interact with it. As far as I'm concerned, just don't care. Yes I disagree with what reddit is doing. Does that mean I shouldn't give it any visits or make any posts? well, depends on what I want to do. For example, just now I used it to spread info about some of this to fellow mods and within our local community. I believe it was worth doing. I don't believe it was less positive than just being overly simple minded and saying "I don't like what reddit is doing, therefore it's bad if i use reddit."

funkyb,

see - that only matters if my primary objective is to provide as little benefit to what reddit's execs care about as possible. My point is that this isn't my primary objective. I am not motivated to try and help them, but I'm also not guided by the idea that "preventing benefit to reddit takes priority above all else."

funkyb,

spez is such an impotent leader. no matter what happens with reddit in the months and years ahead, he's going to get eaten alive by people who plat at that level.

funkyb,

any mods that rolled over to continue doing an unpaid job just to retain some form of power are bitches.

Personally, I don't believe that POV is fair. As someone who, with a small group of friends, started a sub that has grown to 100k people and is the most active internet community for a niche gaming segment - i personally think it's not that easy to judge. I have not been active on my sub in years, and I leave the job up to the new guard, but I can completely respect the decision to want to keep something you invested in building alive and a positive influence in the area it affects. It's easy to armchair QB stuff like this and judge others decisions, but to just generalize and say "better to die than to think something else is better in the bigger picture" is a bit of a cop out imo.

funkyb,

hard disagree. This isn't black and white, you can do some of both and that is not wrong or unprincipled. Thinking otherwise is just simple minded.

anca, to nostupidquestions
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So I've introduced a bit of Reddit into my feed by subscribing to @nostupidquestions. Lack of threading is annoying for reading in Mastodon, but wow, people are really asking questions!

funkyb,

yea, mastodon clients are only good for microblogs, not for threaded discussion like here or kbin.

funkyb,

The button looks like a copy icon. Just mouseover the buttons to the right of the comment count.

funkyb,

I posted this in Ask Lemmy but since it didn't get traction I'm gonna piggyback on the visibility of this thread:

As i learn my way around ActivityPub based services, what stands out to me the most is federation is very much exposed to the users. (That, or I still just haven’t wrapped my head around the architecture details and how they manifest in terms of user experience.)

Am I just misunderstanding this, or would the end-user experience be more fluid and functional if the federation mechanics were mostly ‘under the hood’. What I mean by that is - right now if there’s a community I would enjoy participating in that is located on a different instance, in order to do that I need to (a) know it exists in the first place, (b) know what instance it is on, and (c) explicitly tell my instance about its address in order to join.

Would it be possible to have some form of master index (replicated across instances - not a centralized service) along with a public standard for registering an instance/community on the index? And if something like that existed, couldn’t that push what is an inherently more technical detail to lower levels of the implementation, and make for a simpler UX by allowing every instance to expose a more complete list of communities to users from directly within whatever instance they choose to use?

funkyb,

Nah, the file would be small and only instances would need to keep a record of it. It's no different from the community list already maintained by instances, just would be extended to cover all participating instances. even if there were 1 million rows to the table, that's a very tiny dataset.

funkyb,

I think what you're describing is different. It lists only the communities the current instance knows about, it does not list all communities on all instances, and it doesn't even list the subset of all communities on known instances.

funkyb,

i've been tempted to get back into MC, but lordy if I go down that rabbit hole again, it's gonna be on something running a modpack!

funkyb,

And what is it with the narrow aspects? I totally get the need for mobile support, but the default desktop view looks like it's trying to play nice with old 4:3 aspects. If that's the root design goal, I sure hope we can let that design goal die. In a 16:9 maximized window there is so much wasted real estate it pains me.

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