I love this wild west phase of the Fediverse! Feels like the good ole days of the Internet. Onwards!

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  • Funnily enough, I block very liberally.

    I find that having the option to block by keywords, instances, communities and users let’s me curate my feed exactly as I want. What I wouldn’t want is for the blocks to be too broad of a brush (like in the users of instances example), which would lead to missing out on valuable conversations.




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    1 year ago

    I don’t have any particular complaints about the speed of Lemmy development or which features the devs are prioritizing or shutting down. Since there are two primary devs who are working on a pretty complex Rust codebase, it is going to take time for new contributors to understand it inside out as well as they do. The philosophy of a codebase is also very important for maintainers to guard, as just adding code or features without an overarching vision can lead to chaos.

    Having said that, I’m strongly in favour of multiple forks of the Lemmy backend bring developed. This allows new features, visions, optimizations, etc to be developed quickly and a lot of diverse opinions and philosophies to be entertained, exactly as we’re seeing with instances. Alternative UIs are another example of the benefits of this approach.

    This also allows Lemmy maintainers to see which changes are beneficial, and merge them back into the main codebase much more easily. For example, if a fork has 10x the performance with half the resource usage, it’ll be an easy sell to merge back in.

    Edit: typo
    Edit 2: shutting down, not shitting down 🤦