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0x1C3B00DA, 10 months ago

A lot of my posts from a couple years ago have been getting comments recently, so that’s probably part of it

0x1C3B00DA, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I’m sure there are special cases where residents would need bathroom access directly from their apartment, but are there any good reasons for private bathrooms, other than convenience?

To me, one of the most interesting things about converting non-residential building to residential is the potential for different ways of living. A shared bathroom and kitchen with offices converted into living space surrounding a communal area could lead to a more communal lifestyle for residents.

0x1C3B00DA, 10 months ago

We’re talking about converting unused office space into affordable housing, though. Charging half the rent would qualify it as affordable housing and is still better than no income from an unused building.

0x1C3B00DA, 10 months ago

Say you get 100 apartments out of it, you can’t run a supermarket on 100 customers.

Why does it have to be a supermarket, though? From what I’ve heard, New York City has bodegas everywhere and those are small convenience stores that have similarly sized customer bases. If the bottom floor is a small market, they have a nearly guaranteed 100 customers. And in your hypothetical commercial district, there would be more than one unused office building so more opportunity for mixed-use space.

0x1C3B00DA, 11 months ago

I’ve never really understood the EEE argument here. XMPP was an open proptocol, Google embraced it and attracted users, then extended it and took those users away. But according to this article, Google didn’t extinguish XMPP. It’s still around and serving its niche community.

That’s already the situation the fediverse is in. This is a niche community and there are already existing social media companies that the majority of internet users are on. If Facebook joins the fediverse, it brings billions of new users to the fediverse. If they then leave the fediverse, ActivityPub will still be here and all of us on the real fediverse will still be here, in a niche community. Everyone here has already chosen the fediverse despite it being a clunky, unpolished, niche network. How is EEE a relevant fear for the fediverse?

0x1C3B00DA, 11 months ago

Yes I read that and explained why I don’t think its relevant. Facebook can’t slow down progress on the fediverse because:

1. progress is already slow. The fediverse has been in development for 15 years and still is a clunky, niche network and likely will always be less polished than large corporate networks.
2. Every developer on the fediverse is aware of the EEE playbook and next to none of them will try to remain compatible with any corporate extensions.

0x1C3B00DA, 11 months ago

Could you update the sidebar with the github link and maybe a quick usage instruction?

0x1C3B00DA, 11 months ago

This article seems needlessly antagonistic. Lemmy and kbin are new software (kbin has been live for about a month). Of course there are incompatibilities right now. Those will be worked out. Also, I'm not really sure which incompatibilities they're talking about. Lemmy/Kbin posts show up and can be replied to on other fediverse services. you can even create a post in a lemmy community from a microblog acct.

A key thing to remember is that the entire fediverse is built by hobbyists. Gargron and mastodon did a bunch of marketing to get grants/donations but the rest of the fediverse is built by individual people in their free time. Fixing these issues will take much longer than a corporate network would take.

Sidenote: There is no primary fediverse application. I know they meant mastodon because its the most well known but that's happenstance and bad journalism. Mastodon wasn't the first fediverse application and I think lemmy/kbin will outgrow it soon.

EDIT: To address OPs callout:

no one has done an especially good job explaining why the fediverse is better than centralized solutions

This feels like the author is ignoring a lot of writing about this. The main argument is its better because you're not beholden to someone else's interests, especially corporate interests that will never be aligned with the average user. (See reddit debacle)

0x1C3B00DA, 11 months ago

Lemmy doesn't federate hashtags so they'll appear in the post on other fediverse services but they won't appear in hashtag feeds/searches.

EDIT: FYI, there's a cross-post button on lemmy. it's the button that looks like a copy button (A square overlaid and offset over another square).

0x1C3B00DA, 11 months ago

The numbers for lemmy are probably way outdated. Take a look at https://lemmyverse.net/communities. It lists 636 instances but FediDB only has 302. And remember most of this growth has only come in the past week or two.

Also, mastodon only has 1.25 million active users according to FediDB, though that's probably outdated too.

0x1C3B00DA, 1 year ago

Users can block those with extensions so the data isn't as reliable

0x1C3B00DA, 1 year ago

I've heard a lot of pundits excitedly talking about using this headset to get rid of TVs in their house. I keep wondering how they think that'll go over with their families.

0x1C3B00DA, 1 year ago

Agreed. I don't want to use voice controls for anything but I agree with the OPs more general point of getting more capabilities out of fewer screens

0x1C3B00DA, 1 year ago

ah you're right. I misread the section that mentioned that and thought there wouldn't be any public post pages. Thanks for the clarification.

0x1C3B00DA, 1 year ago

Modern browsers can retain your scroll position for pages in your history. But Lemmy is a SPA (Single Page App) which means it uses a Javascript framework to manage most things that the browser normally does. When you go back to the feed in Lemmy, Lemmy loads your feed and positions you at the top not the browser.

I believe the dialog element has support in all the mainline browsers now, so again, if you want to load a page in an overlay, that is something browsers can do but Lemmy has to be written to do it that way.

0x1C3B00DA, 1 year ago

For sure. I've definitely decided not to start watching a Netflix show because I think it'll get canceled before wrapping up