If you can test it on a feature branch then at least you can squash or tidy the commits after you’ve got them working. If you can only test by committing to main though, curse whoever designed that.

I guess that’s what instances are trying to avoid by preemptively blocking Threads. If everyone else blocks it then Lemmy carries on existing as it is. And I can’t imagine big corpo wouldn’t want to create their own name.

Either they federate and all their users are exposed to the rest of the fediverse, or they don’t and they may as well be a separate thing

Addendum to 2: never believe that what they say is relevant to what’s actually happening here. You have a lot of faith that the people writing error messages knew what they were doing!

Never dealt with an intermittent failure or race condition, eh?

Doesn’t every company offer that? “Yeah we’re really done supporting this, but if you want to spend a million quid a month on it then sure, you can have ultra extra extended support”, then every old company that relies on this for their money-printing machine and can’t be bothered updating their ancient code sends them a blank cheque.

Search for “emergency” in your settings, I can apparently turn them all off (though I’ve never received one anyway)

!softwaregore@lemmy.world and/or !software_gore@programming.dev

It was actually a pretty good Bond parody too!

I think the problem is that people use “algorithm” to mean “curated social media feed”, whereas it actually refers to a kick-ass prog-metal band

I think the hard part would be keeping it up to date as instances change

Feels to me that being able to link what people like/dislike to their comments and username is much more dangerous than just being able to downvote all their comments.

And I’d hope that in this new suggestion an admin would still be able to ban the user even if they only knew the anonymous/voter ID, though that’s probably an interesting question for OP.

I guess that can happen now anyway as the bad actor can just create their own instance with as many fake accounts as they like. Ultimately it’s still on other instance admins to block the dodgy ones either way.

whilst doing nothing to protect them

Well it also takes away a tool that harassers can use for their harassing of individuals, right? This does highlight the often-requested issue of Lemmy needs better/more moderation tools though.

Single developer prioritised his life over supporting an increasingly complex project, I think

For the same reason that people use newpipe or invidious instead of the youtube app or website: a better experience. The kind of people who use the official client aren’t going to be moving to be fediverse anyway!

Summit is great, and the developer seems really responsive

Not a problem if you’re using a teapot, or for a mug you can use a spoon or just your fingers

Just get rid of the label altogether. I’m always suspicious when a teabag has a string on it.