You can say the statement. Doesn't mean the statement is true. You might be a habitual liar and that particular statement is a lie.

Been liking [email protected]

Incredible app! Never realized a web app could be so sexy.

For sure. It's the reason why I refuse to use apps that autoplay videos, including default reddit app, Twitter. I have YouTube Revanced which strips out the Shorts button and the section from the app itself. On desktop, I use an extension to remove shorts as well. However I'm way more addicted to consuming information. Text is where its at, (Tildes, HN, comments all over) maybe slightly less harmful compared to video but it's not good for sure.

You don't get any dumb TVs in my country anymore. I'd assume its the same everywhere else unless you're going back a minimum 5 years of tech evolution, which might not be all too bad.

Great explanation, thanks for the write up! I have a couple of questions, if I may.

• So if I setup my own instance tomorrow, it'd be sending notifications of activity to all the other instances? Maybe I'd have to have a list of instances I'd like to notify? How does it discover the other instances?

• If my instance is listening to all other instances? Won't saving all posts take up a lot of disk space? I guess there is only text and link data and no media, but wouldn't it add up fast as the number of users/instances grow ?

I've only tried Jerboa and Thunder, but Thunder's compact layout is actually like RiF. It's more like Sync than RiF though. Honestly impressed by how good it is. I tried cloning and tweaking Jerboa's UI to my liking but Thunder just werks for now.

For real? Most of the frontpage of lemmy seems to be filled with memes and news about reddit, both of which I don't care about. Of course, I had curated my reddit feed over time and seems like it will take time to do the same over here.

Tildes was actively not looking for exponential growth, and the drop in quality that sometimes accompanies it. It is not a Reddit alternative for most folks, who use it for cat pics, star wars memes, and outrage porn. It is for a niche of users who prefer slightly longer form, quality content, and knee jerk reactions and comments aren't as valued over there. I like it, but both Lemmy and Tildes complement each other well rather than being directly against each other. Worst case, one can always browse Tildes without logging in. I don't know why people rush to make accounts immediately, without waiting to get a vibe of the space.

Seems like Lemmy has a starring functionality.

Yes I have the same experience. And on Kiwi, it can't detect the OS theme.

For real. I have been using DI to only mock infra and external services while keeping the actual code unmocked, and using an in memory db (we use Dynamodb so that's easy) for testing. I write tests only at the interface level, send data in, mock infra, external services, and then assert side effects. Found this to work very well for now, especially for Lambdas which we have quite a lot of.

Whenever we encounter a bug, we ensure that that case is captured in a unit test as well, but priority on integration tests.

How good is the debugging experience in vim? For something like Java, an IDE is a must. There's always vim keybindings but of course, it's not tthe same. Also, there's some benefit to shared tooling within the team, as onboarding new members becomes way easier.

I see, but how will communities on your server be discovered or, how will people on your server discover other communities? I suppose a third party solution is one option. I might have to look into the documentation for this :)

I'm liking Thunder with compact UI of all. It reminds me of Sync, in a way.