PenguinCoder @ Penguincoder @beehaw.org

Bit-breaker working in cybersecurity/IT. Only languages I know are English

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Thanks, I was not familiar with those nuances of NLNet funding or process.

This outline and this documentation and their developer license agreement.

And so enshrined is that final nail in the enshitiffication coffin that was Reddit. I give it 3mo before Spez leaves Reddit to focus on [whatever].

Yes. Discourse and Forem have been top contenders, but for different reasons. Main points against them both are the lack of federation and 'forum based' more than aggregation style based. (Like Reddit and Lemmy formats). Discourse also has a very strict developer contribution requirement.

I really don’t think the programming language is what is standing in the way here

Ok; the developers attitudes certainly are.

I mean, didn’t you just say it there?

Yeah. Pay attention to when I said it the first time so I don't have to repeat myself.

I concur; the best language is the one you know to get the task done. That said, Excel VBA isn't the correct language to use to write a Super Mario Bros Clone. I mean you can, but that doesn't make it the best language to do so.

In this case, the problem absolutely is that Lemmy is written in Rust. The developers constantly state there are only two devs for 40k+ people. IF Lemmy was written in another programing language, regardless of using the 'best' one, there would likely be more able and willing development contributions. Then again with an attitude like this regardless of chosen programming language; I doubt it.

That would be great to hear from the devs in response to why can't you work on feature? If the reason is because someone else is setting the software priorities so the devs can get PAID; okay got it. Instead we get the contradictory answers of:

• But are my priorities not my own?

or

• No we arent getting paid, there is no employment contract with anyone .

So which is it?? The Lemmy devs priorities are their own and their priorities don't line up with most of the community; or their priorities are beholden to what NLNet says so they don't get paid??

The thing that BDFL types often forget is the Benevolent part of that...

So I've been working on a personal project link aggregator/forum that incorporates a lot of 'useful features'. It's not something that is prime time ready yet, but one of the key killer features I want to get operational before showcasing it, is exactly what you say. A method to allow plugins to be created an ran by admins and maybe mods. There is a lot that needs to go into the security of this though, and so it's not just a here run some code type of situation for users.

Mod tools are sorely needed on this platform, but I also don't want to be dictating how users of my software must use it. That is, what I may think are problems certainly may be, but how to solve it won't be the only way I say it should be. To that note, my plugin system (WIP) is a toss up between Lua scripts in a sandbox for mod programs/automodding, or the more basic expr language for Go.

So right now for Lemmy or other alternatives I've aware of, this capability does not exist. For my project in this space, I don't want just another Lemmy. I want a BETTER Beehaw.

I don’t want to create an echo chamber, but, seriously, we don’t to hear the goddamn Nazi point of view.

I've been avoiding comment on most of this thread because I really don't want to be seen as the instigator even more; however I wanted to comment on this specifically. Absolutely agreed with you on this point. I utterly hate the go with the flow, echo chamber style of discussions. I mean sure, if you're talking about how to make chocolate chip cookies, there's not really that many different ways to do it. Your recipe, will echo mine, for the same results. But in a lot of areas in life, there really are a lot of different takes. Your experiences and views and other nuances shape your ideas and expression on any given topic. They won't be the same as mine. And if they are, and all we talk about is 100% stuff I agree with; well, I ain't learning a damn thing am I? I'm just reinforcing my stance. Conclusion shopping. It is really important to have a different point of view that can be well explained and defended across the spectrum of what that may be.

There is no defense for treating people (human beings) as lessor than you because you disagree with their existence. Be it Nazi' Transpobia or otherwise. That's not a difference of opinion. That's a fundamental difference of what it means to be human. There is no echo chamber telling some wanna-be dictator POS' Nazi sympathizing fuck, to fuck off.

And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh *****, this is a Nazi bar now,” he continued. ”And it's too late because they're entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down. - Michael B. Tager

If 10 people are sitting at a table and one of them is a Nazi, then you have 10 Nazis.

Beehaw wants zero of those people, echo chamber be damned.

Btop is pretty. Htop tells me what I want to know. I prefer htop and it's my goto.

Nothing that can stream directly to YouTube that I know of. But a good free solution for personal low usage is whereby.

You're not, paid, for, your efforts? Seems to be a misleading statement.

When we talk about Open Source, we’re not just talking about code. We’re talking about a way of approaching software, of designing it, developing it, distributing it, spreading it, making it something that benefits everyone. So being a developer in this context means thinking of software as a common good and then contributing means making it better and if by better we mean more useful, more accessible, more secure, more powerful, more stable and easier to use, then it’s clear that we are not just talking about writing code.

https://opensource.net/right-way-contribute-open-source/

https://beehaw.org/comment/884681

It doesnt really matter what you want. The software is open source so anyone can use the software freely.

the Fediverse may not be for you. You’re probably better off over some place else,

Just going to leave this here. Pretty sure this user knows about the fediverse quite a bit more than you're assuming.

Hubzilla and the zot protocol are a really promising alternative to ActivityPub, just not as much traction.

Thanks for the insight and well thought out response. I'll think on it.