AnonymousLlama

I thought the selling point behind most Twitter like services is that it’s focused on negative positioning. E.g. things that are negative focused get more attention and engagement

Eventually it was bound to happen. Still sad to see mods getting removed to make way for more Spez friendly replacements

People hear from others that Lemmy is the place you go and when searched for you end up here. Having registrations closed doesn’t sound like a great idea when most people have no idea about the fediverse

Perfectly fair. People coming from Reddit specifically need to be eased into the fediverse and saying “whoops sorry we’re full / closed” isn’t great.

Ideally if we want things balanced people should be on multiple instances but I’d rather several slower, bigger instances in the meantime until the community expands.

Cheers for the work you guys do!

There’s a mobile app in the works, Artemis. Things will be a bit better when the site gets official API support and more services can connect to it

I’ve found squabbles pretty good for tweet style content. There seems to be a pretty engaged audience who can look at a short sentence or photo and happily engage with a comment

I’m pretty happy with kbin.social. It’s a nice place, with several devs actively looking at making the experience better, it just takes a while being an open source project and all

Think my eye twitched from the thought of frames again 🫨

https://media.tenor.com/cJM3MCBQXlEAAAAM/cringe-flinch.gif

Love a good flex layout, more keen on CSS grid and template areas now. So handy to be able to redefine positing with just CSS

Bootstrap is perfectly fine. I know there’s a lot of CSS snobs out there who rail on it but it’s a great framework and perfectly acceptable starting point.

Better than a decade ago when you had to worry about 5 different rendering engines. Nothing worse than finding a great solution and then seeing it works in most of them but not all, so you have to polyfil it

I’d say the over exploitation of JavaScript to leverage tracking, interaction and marketing has helped create the poor experiences we now have on web. The underlying technology when used for creating interactive and helpful UIs is very beneficial

Have no idea what old mate is even on about. I thought it might have been a parody or copypasta

“to keep the quality of answers high, we may arbitrarily close questions, regardless of how many upvotes it gets and how helpful it is” - stackoverflow

The Firefox team responded saying that it’s an awful idea and that plenty of people rely on being able to appear human, for example screen readers who need to interact as a human would but then translates it into a format their users can understand.

These propositions are just full of drawbacks for the user, the user actually gains nothing at all. Let’s hope this rubbish doesn’t take a foothold.

Not keen on following these awful proposals. It feels like there’s a persistent trend of making the internet shiter than it was beforehand. I get alphabet has a vetted interest in ads and user data, but if they’re going to push for this tracking approach I guess it’ll be back to fix Firefox again

Yep spot on. I get that people have their own preferences and tolerances, but that’s what it is, thier own, it feels pretty entitled to think everyone else should be affected when you can just block communities and people yourself

OP might find these jokes a little shitty

Whenever I see these threads pop up I always look for this comment. People need learn to block communities and users that you’re not keen on, not reach for the de-federation ban-hammer because you personally don’t want to see the content.

There’s an argument to be made about instances made 100% in bad faith, or where the content is overwhelming stacked, but for most of these situations people need to take care of this themselves

Haven’t looked at LinkedIn in years, it’s just full of low quality recruiters who “have the perfect full stack position for you” that’s clearly a front-end or backend position using obscure languages you’ve got no interest in.

Glad I don’t have to use these vultures