GlitterInfection @ GlitterInfection @lemmy.world

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That's a good point. I loved the first few Ms Marvel episodes, too.

There's lots of good stuff started, but they feel uncommitted to quality writing.

Honestly I'm hoping that Ironheart ends up being good and that she fills that need.

The post infinity saga MCU is exciting to me, but the execution has been at best half-hearted and at worst downright terrible.

I want WandaVision episodes 1-8 quality programming, not WandaVision episode 9 and absolutely not Dr Strange 2: This time I'm a mother not a monster boogaloo quality.

And have that version be the obviously not evil version of the two...

Having a support contract has nothing to do with being a customer. If the devs didn't want customers, they shouldn't have released their product to the public. It really just seems like they can't handle the stress of writing code AND managing their customers' needs.

Tough love is never the correct way to deal with people, and never the way to manage a product.

In some of the threads I've seen the devs have said that they could be making more money if they went to a big tech corp while also exhibiting behaviors that would NEVER fly at any of the big tech companies.

Learning projects are great! Releasing them isn't necessarily the best way to go about things, though.

Don't get me wrong, I don't envy the lemmy devs for the position they've put themselves in. It is incredibly stressful to juggle what they're trying to juggle, and PR is not usually the strongest skill an engineer has.

I hear you on the context of choosing Rust. It's not really that relevant to what I'm saying, but I have seen people complain about Rust as the language preventing them from contributing. Having more contributor's wasn't their goal, it was to build something in Rust to begin with.

My point was that Sublinks' goal IS to invite contributors, so Java is a smart choice.

Beehaw was acting like a customer, which they kind of were and sort of weren't at the same time. Customers act entitled, but they didn't seem to be any worse than most. Lemmy's devs are right in that they don't owe them anything, really, but the way they voiced that was bad PR, IMO.

It sucks having to care about message when all you want to do is make something you like, so I get it, buy I don't think it looked great from the outside.

I don't think choosing Rust was inherently a bad move. I think it makes sense that if you are going to try to make a competing platform to NOT choose Rust, and instead pick something that a lot of people can contribute to.

But yeah, complaining about their initial choice doesn't make sense, and neither does the "why don't they just learn Rust" sentiment given the context of all this other stuff.

Display one form field at a time for an economical layout

Preferably not when asking for username and password, since that messes with password manager autofill.

You identified one way this could be fixed.

Remove or completely rethink voting.

It was a bad system on reddit and it's worse system here. There is no guideline for how it should be used, so a downvote means anything from "your community showed up on the all feed and I don't want to see it" to "I disagree with you" to "your behavior warrants a report but I'm lazy and this button is right here."

It's not clear what it's supposed to be used for, even on reddit. And here it's worse because moderators can see your upvotes/downvotes, so people rightly using it without any guidance are getting banned from communities for downvoting.

Removing it altogether and replacing it with a tagging system would be an interesting option. Communities could choose which tags are available, and users could apply them to comments. Maybe "helpful" or "propaganda" or "friendly" or "hard disagree" or whatever.

I like lemmy but also I've been following the drama from the sidelines, so I think the focus on Rust vs Java has nothing to do with the choice to create a lemmy alternative.

The reason sublinks exists is that the lemmy devs have made some large technical and PR mistakes that have led to multiple larger instance admins losing faith in them.

There was the Beehaw debacle where nutomic told the Beehaw admins that they should go to a different platform and take their "entitled" "demands" with them. It's not surprising to see various alternatives to lemmy springing up as a result of the devs telling people to do so.

There was the illegal content spam incident which required instance admins to interact directly with the image database in complex ways for each image to remove the content from their servers, and I believe lemmy.world disabled submitting images if you are using a VPN or the tor network as a result. The lemmy devs have made some bafflingly derisive comments about that incident.

And then there's the recent update that has broken federation of bigger instances, which is an ongoing issue. Communities are having to move instances to help with this bug which should have been caught in testing the update.

So sublinks seems to be some folks deciding that they can do it better.

Choosing Java is one way that they think they can do better. The argument goes, significantly more people know Java than Rust. Lemmy has had some problem getting extra help as a result of this limit, so hopefully sublinks will have a much larger pool of talented devs who will step up and submit code.

Sublinks isn't the only one, too. Piefed is the python Lemmy alternative that's cropped up recently and I believe there are some others in other languages.

Whether any of them can do it better remains to be seen, but it does seem like the Rust fans are struggling to understand that language choice isn't always the most important part of a project.

Moving is likely fine, though it would be interesting if you could track as many metrics as possible for this migration.

There are a lot of suggestions for handling moving content or for separating content from instances, etc, in the fediverse. So it might be helpful to show how this type of unsupported migration effort works and if it has a big impact on things like post counts, existing and new subscribers, etc.

It could help with priorities. Maybe, I dunno.

I feel like glass was accidentally very beneficial for the industry.

It both drastically increased the general public's consciousness and awareness of the industry around AR/VR and then set the bar so low as to be trivial to exceed. People who mocked it know that bad AR with privacy concerns is not good, but when they try acceptable VR they are blown away by it.

It's mostly just the lack of the "killer app" equivalent that is holding us back.

I know we are on lemmy so corporations are bad and capitalism is bad and so on and so forth...

But there is not one aspect of my life that hasn't been improved upon greatly by one or more tech companies over the course of my life.

There are new problems that I never would have expected to deal with that have come up as a side effect of this improvement, but it's way too reductive to imply that tech companies haven't changed the world for the better as well.

It feels more like the Onion reposting the same article about mass shootings with nothing but the date changed.

Every time there's another layoff announced we should turn to someone else at Larian and ask their opinion.

Nobody uses Java… it’s too popular.

Only if the ad was sexually transmitted.

It's an ActivityPub protocol implementing fediverse platform. It has the equivalent of lemmy's communities which it calls magazines, but it also has microblogging similar to mastadon mixed in.

As a result they sort of work together which is awesome, but also you get stuff like what OP is asking about.

That's fair. I didn't mean to imply anything about the drug use.

The way OP views the world reminds me of how I see things when I am experiencing certain depression symptoms. I tend to filter my view of the world so that only the negative things are true, and it makes it harder to do anything positive in my life.

When my symptoms let up, either through treatment or sometimes on their own, I can still see the negatives but they're there with a lot of positives, too.

If OP does have depression, it's possible that treating it in a more effective way would be the answer to their question.

Have you considered that you might be self medicating depression rather than getting high?

Maybe a professional could help more than anyone on lemmy?

But they said I wouldn't have to tip if they got rid of the humans!

I haven't tried LLMs myself, but even completely made up garbage would be better than today's search engine results.

You either get advertisements for things that have nothing to do with what you're trying to find or you get privacy preserving links to sites that have nothing to do with what you're trying to find.

Oh, Oooh. NOW I SEE IT!