mozz

Personally I like upvotes/downvotes. Both are pretty useful information to have and those are the two numbers that my brain translates most cleanly into seeing what’s going on.

Also I want to put in my perennial pitch for the software to display a popup or something the first time you vote, saying hey warning your votes are not private on any federated software! Don’t vote with an expectation of privacy.

Federation in general seems like it’s been flaky as hell ever since a month or two ago… my guess (especially if you see it on some Lemmy servers and not others) is that it’s delayed and will show up eventually.

It’s possible that there’s some unexpected behavior that leads it to federate some places and not others, but my expectation is that once your comment is on lemmy.ml’s server, it’s federation delay between the Lemmy servers and nothing to do with you specifically.

Yeah, makes sense. Overall I think the idea is a great one. Reading existing code is a thing that’s vital for learning how to write good code, and for some reason it’s not a real big part of “how to make software” education.

Honestly the idea sounds fantastic, I’m just not sure I’d pick Lemmy as the codebase to do it with. There are some software projects that are worth some serious study – Chromium, Wordpress, Linux kernel, git, Redis, Python, lichess. Just because Lemmy is in Rust doesn’t automatically mean it’s great code.

I’m not saying it’s not good code or trying to talk down on the level of accomplishment or anything, just you got a whole symphony of pretty outstanding options to choose from.