This is a somewhat terrifying concept to grapple with. I think letting Meta federate would be letting vomit soak into the carpet

Just because the ActivityPub protocol lets Lemmy and Mastodon interact doesn’t necessarily mean they should… Of course, I say that as we interact between the two!! It’s an interesting design dilema that I’m sure will receive more thought as the platforms grow

Personally, I think it’s hideous and unintuitive. BUT I do love seeing alternative DEs, especially since I can only imagine how hard they are to develop (I’m a backend guy…). Props to the team, even if it’s an eyesore to me…

Yes, you are totally right! I do think that there is an ideological disconnect, though, since Lemmy is more of a long-form text site and Mastodon is more of a podium-and-audience deal. Perhaps if content was “cross posted” instead, that might help separate things. Just rolling off the top of my head

I think there will always be people who feel out of place in the neat boxes the Internet is packed into. Not everyone is comforted by fancy CSS and an ever-lurking algorithm. Plus, it’s hard to genuinely connect with people on modern platforms… That’s my two cents.

Thank you for the thorough answer!!! I am definitely going to upgrade to ARPA once I get accustomed.

That’s awesome! Thanks for sharing. I’m particularly interested in hearing about your experiences using VoIP. Could you tell me more?

Not just boring, but self-important and toxic… The culture of that site was a disaster even before Elon got his grubby hands on it

I’d like to see a font like this eventually replace the Ubuntu system typeface. There’s a lot of nostalgia and charm in that font, but it’s godawful ugly T_T

I would prefer a downvote to a needlessly rude comment in response to me, but yeah, I’m definitely not going to miss downvotes either

This! I’m glad to see many tech-minded folks on Lemmy, but it doesn’t have the same neckbeard self-importance that Reddit seems to be known for

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i++ gives the current value of i and then increments it, while ++i increments it and returns the new value

The latency is miserable!!!! Unfortunately I don’t think wireless is worth the convenience is this case

So true… I think the worst thing about interacting with people on Reddit is getting downvoted to Hell if you say something sarcastic without “/s”