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Reddit SEO captured them. They got shitty because they stopped growing, and when a community stops growing, it decays. And yes. They’re absolutely better

I assumed we weren’t talking “expected semicolon” since that ones pretty explanatory and would never appear on a blank line. That said, it does provide an opportunity to talk about the worst code style I ever saw. A dude decided he wanted semicolons at the start of lines so that compiler error always mapped to the line he would have put the semicolon on

It depends on what you’re using. I see it most often with TypeScript when the source maps are incorrect

This could be a big help to growing the overall threadiverse community since growth after the reddit bump has stalled. Not saying growth is intrinsically the goal, but rather that organic rather than force growth (which is how we got most of the users here) is preferable

This is part of why universities generally have it in the admissions agreement that the university will hold copyright over all that you do for your classes

And the people asking basic questions probably don’t want to be asking anyway. I know from my days on the arch forums you will alway get basic questions even when the manual is exhaustive, but I see so many discord communities where the documentation is woefully incomplete, and the result is predictable: a constant flood of basic questions.

And the people being rude about it have created their own frustration. They picked a bad platform and are mad about how it’s going. Further people who aren’t deeply involved see what a bunch of jerkasses the community maintainers are and just disengage.

Live chat is a good choice for friend and making urgent decisions in software. I’ve been watching projects more and more use it for their discussions, issue trackers, and Q&A solutions and it just makes me sad. Live chat isn’t good for anything that will need to be revisited in the future. But still I see more and more communities moving to live chat solutions for their whole community.

And that’s not to get into any of the problems with Discord specifically. I don’t love giving control over community hosting to any individual company. We’ve already seen the results several times. Google groups? Facebook groups? Reddit subreddits? All have demonstrated the problems with hosting your communities on a singular platform. Google groups is straight up gone. Facebook groups require you to sell a small part of your soul to participate. Reddit has been outright abusive towards their user base lately. Discord is vulnerable to all these problems

Internet Relay Chat. Its one of the oldest internet protocols. You have an IRC server that hosts streams of conversations, and clients who connect to the server and post forth streams of conversation, and then the server just beams out all the conversations to everyone. When you join a room you don’t generally get to see history, so its very much an ephemeral chat room protocol. Its super stable and super easy as an administrator to set up

Is this a lemmy switcharoo joke moment? Because it was Luke Smith I had to go read up on

Just finished reading up on Luke Smith. Yup. Fucking hated everything he had to say

No idea who he even is, so sure

I’m in the last column with the exception of thinking RMS is a misogynistic transphobe asshole

git rebase -x theirs origin/main and then look at the lines your changing to see what needs to be retouched

Only you and your friends would notice, so that’s up to you and them to decide

Haha nah, I was trying to say the opposite. If I had to guess at why the different stances on lemmynsfw.com, I’d guess that sopuli.xyz explicitly forbids porn in the rules, whereas beehaw’s rules don’t make any such direct provisions. Part of it, I’m sure, is just the legal ramifications. All of these instances are run on volunteer compute hours, and if the sopuli admin doesn’t think they can deal with the legal parameters of porn, then it would make a ton of sense to look at the porn instance and say “Yeah no, I don’t have time to figure out what the legalities of caching that, or not collecting people’s ages are on my instance before they head over there, just gonna defederate and stop worrying.”

For which one? Here’s Sopuli’s, and as you can see, lemmynsfw.com is listed as blocked. Here’s Beehaw’s, and as you can see, lemmynsfw.com has not been blocked. Unless you’re asking about exploding-heads, in which case all four block exploding heads

sopuli.xyz, slrpnk.net, beehaw.org, or lemmy.dbzer0.com are the current instances that have moderation styles I appreciate. Take that with a grain of salt that you and I may be different people and may like different things. Sopuli and Beehaw are general purpose. Sopuli federates with more (non-nsfw) instances. Beehaw is more actively moderated (and doesn’t defederate from lemmynsfw.com, if that’s something you’re into). slrpnk is ecological friendliness focused, and dbzer0 is internet piracy focused.

It’s an idea that’s been bouncing around in my head. I’ll either be able to do a great job of it with my devops background, or a terrible job of it with my devops fulltime job

I’m strongly considering hosting a KBin instance

The question I always find myself asking is, why is it that people only expect the targets of abuse to do the filtering of that abuse, and why, other than you yourself would like to enact abuse, would you want to leave people engaging in abusive behavior in position to continue being abusive? Beehaw has lamented there not being more flexible moderation tools allowing us to perform more powerful moderation actions, enabling the filtration of abuse on otherwise good servers, but until those tools exist, what good reason is there to ignore and enable abuse?