People, think about the implications of a TLD before choosing your domain. Look up the organization that controls it and their restrictions on using it. Basic-ass research.
This headlines been out there for a week or so and every time I see it, seems like the taliban is after the admins or something. But it’s just about domain name.
Hey weren’t we having a problem with .ml? Did that ever get sorted?
That's not applicable. Sublinks is using the same standard as Lemmy/kbin/mbin, i.e. ActivityPub. In a decentralized system based on an open standard, plurality of implementations is a good thing. We shouldn't want lemmy to be the only one.
I mean, Java has faster developer speed since it's much less complicated than Rust. But it will also use a lot more memory. That being said, I guess most of what happens in Lemmy is database queries anyway and that will go equally fast in Java.
Rust is a very fast language but for a web app like Lemmy it's probably not that important that it's rust underneath.
But I really dislike Java. Lots of issues with code only working on a specific JDK, and code being very ugly due to all classes and shit.
Java has faster developer speed since it’s much less complicated than Rust
[citation needed]
To give some context: Exception-based error handling is insanely complex. The error handling of Rust is much simpler to reason about. Finding out where errors happen is a lot simpler.
The only Java dev I know is an older guy who started university with me at the same time - I was 20, he was 45. He knew Java, I didn't. Java is not the future if you ask me.
"faster to code in"... I would not say so. In my personal experience, Rust can be very fast to code in once you get comfortable with it, since you barely even need to run your code to know that it works. You also save a lot of time via less debugging.
Yeah this sounds like someone doesn't know rust and instead of learning it they're porting to Java? It might also be a way to capture an existing userbase as it's still compatible with lemmy, but also adds features that might cause more people to use it. But being written in Java is an excuse to make it more difficult to migrate the additions back upstream to lemmy. Maybe they hope that this will eventually allow them to build out a private platform?
Probably the are navegatin in new and as soon as they see non-english they downvote. These people doesn't even have a single post in other than english,
You vastly underestimate the idiocy and childishness of Americans. I've seen people comment things like "use English, this is a US website", "go to another site for your own country if you want to use anything other than English", etc. even though the posts were in communities/subs specific for the language the post was in.
This has always been a thing online.
Many Americans are so dumb they think they are the vast majority on any website, and everything should be via their rules and ways. And there are several other things that seemingly only Americans are dumb enough to do and/or to not understand, things like timezones (even though they have several within their country), that the vast majority of the world uses Metric, that not every country has the same products or services, that their subjective experience of anything is in fact subjective, etc. I could go on for several more paragraphs with things like this.
Fact: the US uses the metric system for decades (maybe closer to a century?). All federal contracts in the US must be in metric. Its not the same at the State level, and its not mandated for private businesses--unless they're working for the federal government.
Also every US American is taught metric in schools.
FWIW I don't think this is a real issue. It is right now because Lemmy is fairly new and small. But over time it will become obvious which communities are popular and people will go there. I think there is a small issue because local communities are sort of given priority as /communities defaults to "Local". But that sort of seems like the end of the list.
Just like it isn't an issue that people can create "Cats" and "CuteCats" on Reddit I don't think it is an issue that you can create cats@a.example and cats@b.example. Over time people will find and participate in whichever popular community matches their preferences.
I don't like the idea of global "Multi-communities" as now there are more instance admins that have control over a community. I think that in general mods should have the most control, instance admins being necessary due to an implementation detail (communities are bound to servers) and should only need to step in for extreme cases. (Like violating server rules)
I don't mind "Communities following communities" as much but I fail to see the point. If you think that another community is a good place to have a discussion why not just tell your members that you recommend moving there? I can see this working as a "Public Playlist" style idea where you can subscribe to follow recommended communities. I think having the option to post to both a followed community or the community that is doing the following is unnecessarily confusing. Basically I would make this as more of a discovery feature than a way to merge communities together.
Yes, I agree with this. I wrote a blog post about this a while ago. postlemmy discussion.
TL;DR communities on Lemmy are federated and highly dependent on the instance that they live on. If the source instance gets banned or goes offline the community will effectively go offline too.
This can be compared to Matrix rooms which don't really live on any specific instance and continue even if the source instance goes offline. Defederation will prevent users from seeing posts from users on the blocked instance, but the room itself isn't affected.
However I feel that trying to solve this by supporting some form of community merging would likely just be papering over the problem. The only way to really solve this is by properly decentralizing communities.
Anything that works client side or via a 3rd party aggregator is going to be a hassle for moderation.
I guess a subscription option that moderators can opt in themselves would be OK, but I don't think it will be used much.
In the end it is simply a wrong impression that these communities are duplicates. A community is part of a specific server and usually has a set of regular contributors. This together is the community and not some rather arbitrary name that it might also share with other communities.
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