As much as I understand beehaw admin has every right to defedorate with any instance, and I respect the decision for beehaw admin to look after the community.
However, it seems this instance is no longer for me. I want to see more content by more people. I understand there need to be a balance of content quantity vs content quality. I personally think that beehaw is leaning too much towards quality for me.
cough, cough, lightening port.
As much as I share your centiment about tech. I don’t quite realize how is TPM scary? It physically separates security important operation from the main CPU.
Cookieautodelete is sooo underrated.
Huffman said 97% of Reddit users do not use any third-party apps to browse the site.
“And the opportunity cost of not having those users on our platform, on our advertising platform, is really significant,”
By “significant”, he means 3%??? That is not factoring how much profit these 3% of people’s content can provide.
So all of these fuzz just to have a one time increase of less than 3% of the profit, even at the cost of more than a million (57 million * 3%) user’s privacy, that is freaking ridiculous.
How dare you suggest that children and our future are more important than old millionaire boomer trolls, that uses every fiber of their being to screw everyone over so that they can have enjoy free vacations from their CEO friends?
I am not surprised from the quality of text they are generating. In my class, at least half of the class are using clearly generated text to fill the discussion form (repeated use of word, slow development, extremely organized style, nonexistent reference etc.). It is really hilarious to read them.
One of the reasons I want a colored eink is that I can finally starting to draw my slides instead of writing it.
If you use markdown format you can actually display the image. I think like this 
I think colored eink is a great idea, unfortunately I will never buy a boox device at this point. Their business model is similar to phone model, pushing out new model is much more important than maintaining old model.
IMO this practice is very wasteful, extremely bad for the environment (electronics are in general very toxic), and ultimately just anti consumer.
That being said, different people have different needs, and have to face different trade-offs. Absolutely no judgement if anyone decided to get one. I am just saying personally I would much prefer the supernote’s business model than boox.
Are you using a Lemmy client or a mastodon client? I think it is better to use a client that can sort through these “Lemmy” like federations, otherwise you will get every post.
I don’t know if it is possible for Lemmy to only federate posts but not comments with other apps like mastodon.
Bon apple tea.
That is just how they see their users. People high up do not see reddit as a community, but a bunch of “quality text” generators and ad watchers that will make them money.
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There is a “rumor”/“running joke” in programming community that PHP application is hard to maintain.
Primarily, because it is originally designed to whip up a website in a quick and dirty way, hence the original name “personal homepage”.
Where as rust (which is what Lemmy is built upon) is a much more modern language with more safe guard in place to help scaling the application.
Obviously, like many people pointed out there are many larger project is built by PHP. However, many larger companies have the resources build significant extension to PHP to make it more usable, like Facebook’s hhvm and hack language are both tools that revolve around PHP. This is a luxury not enjoyed by smaller projects like kbin, Lemmy, even mastodon.
My personal opinion is that PHP is not a great language, but language is just a tool; it is mostly up to the programmer to write maintainable program in a language. For example, python is probably one of the less principled language out there (for example it’s variable scoping is very confusing), yet there are many larger and fast projects written in python.
Well if Pornhub is built in it, then I am down with it (quite obvious/jk)
AFAIK, one of Lemmy’s core developer seems to be a China/Russia apologist, see content on https://lemmy.ml/c/socialism , which is moderated by one of the creator: https://lemmy.ml/u/dessalines
He identify as a communist from his profile on GitHub and Lemmy. I am sure there are people (including me), who disagree with his definition of “communism” or “socialism”.
As a left-leaning Chinese, who does not enjoy many decisions made by the CCP, it is obviously disheartening for me to see CCP being protraited as “socialists”, “communists”, or “democratic”. But despite his potentially controversial political stance, it is very likely he is neither a neo-nazi (Nazi and Russia/China didn’t have a good relationship) nor a white supremacists (even his cover art on Lemmy is a picture of Mao, and he allows China apologist comment on this subreddit).
I don’t necessarily agree with his political stance, but lemmy is a FOSS project maintained by many; so if the lead developer does something out-of-line, I am sure there exists people can maintain a fork.
EDIT: obviously, when I say “China” or “Russia”, I refer to their current governments, not their people.
Oh, then I imagine they would also be able to blocked by local VPN like netguard?
That is why they force you to use first party apps, ads in them can be almost impossible to block.
Also available on fdroid (until July 1st, of course)