It is as Benjamin Franklin once said: “Life is microplastics, it’s micro-fantastic.”

Esteemed Oscar nominated character actress Margot Robbie.

She should also have been nominated for Best Actress this year too…

The Meridian trench of the Death Star is on the outside, so the Death Star explosion is actually an outside job, you silly Billy!

Yay

That’s definitely genuine esteemed Academy Award nominated (but not this year) character actress Margot Robbie to you!

Happy International Women’s Day, everyone!

Part of it could be that people post less during the holidays and there is a significant portion of people who browse sites like reddit/Lemmy during their downtime at work.

Are you by any chance my new stalker?

No, it was on that AMA you guys did months ago, and I remember things about people.

I’m pretty sure Nutomic was a Java dev before starting work on Lemmy and learning Rust from scratch. That by itself should already speak volumes.

One-Up projects like this rarely ever turn out well, that’s from my own experiences. Even though this isn’t a popular view, I still think I’m right on this one, we can circle back in say, 6 months, to see if my predictions are right.

Having a frontend rewrite seemed more critical than trying reimplementing the backend in a different language.

Remember, Lemmy had 4 years of development to iron out bugs, and this is essentially promising to make something in months that has a fully compatible backend to support all the third party apps, while adding features on top of what Lemmy has, and with a better front end with better mod tools to boot, with a complete rewrite of everything.

The scope of this project has planned for is already unviable. Suppose that Sublinks does reach feature parity to the current version of Lemmy, congratulations, the backend or mod tools is not something a regular user is going to notice or care about at all, all they will know is that suddenly, there are weird bugs that wasn’t there before, and that causes frustration.

And this project is going to get more developer traction because… Java?

I’d like to be proven wrong, but I’m very sceptical about the success of Sublinks, because it look like a project that was started out of tech arrogance to prove a point than out of a real need, I don’t work in tech, but the general trajectory of these kind of projects is that “enthusiasm from frustration” can only take you so far before the annoyance of dealing with mundane problems piles up, and the project fizzles out and ends with a whimper.

Yay

Huh. Actually the first time I’ve seen this.

Thanks!

I have literally never seen any pictures of an ice cream cone with a cherry on top in real life. But I’ve seen and had plenty of milkshake and sundaes (and cocktails) with a Maraschino cherry on top though.

Every instance should be able to federate and defederate from any other instance for any, all, or no reason.

https://lemmy.world/comment/5715981

This person who responded to me didn’t think so. Maybe you can talk to him about it.

Currently, I think there are two main branches of ActivityPub implementations: Microblogs(Mastodon and its forks, the microblog portion of kbin), which are user centric, and group based aggregators(Lemmy, Kbin, peertube, future Pixelfed), both of which are valid implementations, however, they don’t really work well with each other.

So, I believe that the threat of Threads to Lemmy instances is really overblown for the simple reason that there is no way for a Lemmy user to browse microblog contents through federation to begin with, whether it be Mastodon or Threads.

We already talked about XMPP a few months ago, if anyone is interested in reading about some experiences with XMPP for more context.

https://lemmy.world/post/1121594

That’s esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress/Lemmy powermod Margot Robbie to you!

Threads federation is mostly targeted towards Mastodon than Lemmy, so I highly doubt it will make much of a difference whether any Lemmy instance federates or not, since Lemmy is purely group based and does not federate well with even Mastodon to begin with as there is a huge difference in design philosophy. (Which means I can stay under the radar a bit longer.)

However, I don’t think Facebook will stop at Threads, they are using Threads as a preliminary test, and if it goes well, I think the next step they could do is to get Instagram itself to federate.

So here is a thought: suppose reddit or Instagram are open to federation, would you say federating with them and getting all their content will be worth it?