bahmanm @ bahmanm @lemmy.ml

Husband, father, kabab lover, history buff, chess fan and software engineer

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Interesting topic - I've seen it surface up a few times recently.

I've never been a mod anywhere so I can't accurately think what workflows/tools a mod needs to be satisfied w/ their, well, mod'ing.

For the sake of my education at least, can you elaborate what do you consider decent moderation tools/workflows? What gaps do you see between that and Lemmy?

PS: I genuinely want to understand this topic better but your post doesn't provide any details. 😅

I just love the "Block User" feature. Immediate results w/ zero intervention by the mods 😆

Nice! Good to see this idea becoming more common 👍

I personally use Firefox Relay which gives me better control for my workflow - I usually need my temporary e-mails to last a bit longer, eg a week or a month.

On another note, the post clickable URL opens the Lemmy instace landing page and not that of the disposable email service.

A bit too long for my brain but nonetheless it written in plain English, conveys the message very clearly and is definitely a very good read. Thanks for sharing.

That single line of Lisp is probably (defmacro generate-compiler (...) ...) which GCC folks call every time they decide to implement a new compiler 😆

Would be lovely to have a download per release diagram along w/ the release date (b/c Summer matters in the FOSS world 😆)

When i read the title, my immediate thought was "Mojolicious project renamed? To a name w/ an emoji!?" 😂

We plan to open-source Mojo progressively over time

Yea, right! I can't believe that there are people who prefer to work on/with a closed source programming language in 2023 (as if it's the 80's.)

... can move faster than a community effort, so we will continue to incubate it within Modular until it's more complete.

Apparently it was "complete" enough to ask the same "community" for feedback.

I genuinely wonder how they managed to convince enthusiasts to give them free feedback/testing (on github/discord) for something they didn't have access to the source code.

PS: I didn't downvote. I simply got upset to see this happening in 2023.

TIL indeed!

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Now that I know which endpoints I'm interested in and which arguments I need to pass, exporting them to Prometheus is my next step. Though I wasn't sure where to begin w/ - I was thinking about writing the HTTP requests in Java or Python and export the results from there.

Blackbox exporter is definitely easier and cleaner. Thanks for the tip 💯

OK, I think I see your point more clearly now. I suppose that's what many others do (apparently I don't represent the norm ever 😂.)

So tags can be useful for not only listening but also discovery.

I guess my concern RE tag & community competing. But I've got no prior experience designing a social/community based application to be confident to take my case to the RFC.

Hopefully time will prove me wrong.

That's a fair point 👍 I just wanted to point out that I'm not the author.

As I said, I very much like the idea. It helps raise awareness around the current trend of switching licenses to curb competition/make $$$.

I articulated my thoughts on the topic in a separate post: [DISCUSS] Website to monitor Lemmy servers' performance/availability

Please share your thoughts/feedback over there.

That's a fair use-case.

You see memes in your feed (despite not subscribing to meme'y communities). Three things come to my mind, thinking out loud here:

(1) Could it be b/c the community is not granular enough? Remember we're in the early stages of Lemmy w/ big "holistic" communities. I'd suppose as we grow, a overarching community will specialise and be split into several more specific ones?

(2) Creating "filters" based on tag/content is a fair usecase and I would second the idea as long as the main dimension of organisation remains "community." I'm a bit over-attached to "community" b/c I feel that's a defining element of Lemmy experience & am afraid that touching that balance may change the essence.

(3) Tags can be used to achieve (2) indeed but is the added complexity (❓) to the codebase and UI/UX worth it?

a list or database of projects that were open but then closed down

That's a great idea! Esp if the list is actively maintained & updated.

Since I am NOT the author of this extension, do you think you could write down your thoughts on the project's issue tracker?

I'm not sure I understand the value of tags for Lemmy (or Reddit in a similar vein.)

Lemmy's main (& sole?) dimension of organisation is the concept of "community." You subscribe to communities to automatically receive their updates on your feed.

Now, tags are going to add another dimension for organisation which allows one to curate their feed w/o subscribing.

The good thing about tags is that they simplify "listening." No need to keep searching for communities or keep scrolling through your feed to find the content you're interested in.

The downside of tags, IMO, is that it fundamentally competes w/ the concept of "communities" in the sense that, why would I bother w/ finding communities and "explore", and consequently, potentially contribute to the content of a community where I can simply listen to tags I'm interested in and forget about the rest.
IMO, the reason that tags (moderated or not) are working so beautifully on Mastodon is the lack of communities: listening is the only option.

I stand to be corrected, but it (tags and communities) very much feels like an either/or situation.

PS: Despite its quality and friendliness, Lemmy's user base and the content they creates is still small. That means, for the time being, communities may work just fine. As we grow and so does our volume of content, we'd probably need new strategies to augment communities. Though I wouldn't call that a concern of now or near future.

My 2 cents.

Created an issue on the repo: https://github.com/galdor/github-license-observer/issues/5

Yes, written communication is so tricky, esp RE sensitive topics like this. As a non-native speaker, I kind of knew I was going to mess it up, but I guess I just couldn't help my OCD 😂

donate to you instance.

That's a good sign of support and I've already done that 😎 Honestly the quality of the software and the friendliness of the community made it a no-brainer for me only a few days after logging in for the first time.

That said, I think there's more I can do than my humble donation - I've got plenty of, hopefully, relevant experience under my belt and am eager to put it to good use for Lemmy.

Servers are expensive and improving reliability will increase hosting cost.

Definitely 💯

What I was trying to get at in my post was not rather improve the hardware or ask lemmy.ml folks to sweat more for free. By the gods, no! Rather I was suggesting that maybe w/ a couple of, hopefully, easy and not time consuming moves we could up our level at lemmy.ml. Though I realised what I was talking about, wasn't among the main concerns of the community. Which is totally reasonable.

I had no idea about that 🤦‍♂️ Bookmarked 🔖