we still punk π€ππ€
fucking gulag.
if you have to assert that you are still punk, you are not still punk
Nothing says punk like politely asking for a user feedback survey and using the phrase βchanges in our core services.β
And emojis
Everyone is telling them how silly is to make a site from zero just because you dont like the opinions of the devs and how java sucks compared to rust.
Its going to be funny the seeing the drama when sublinks drops and they realised no one wants to jump ship to it
Canβt wait to watch the most irritating turboliberals on the fediverse retreat from Lemmy and make their own little platform, before tearing each other apart.
The funniest thing the devs can do is simply not make a mechanic to port over an instance to another platform so they have to rebuild from scratch.
Recent and future history of .worldβ¦
Mid 2023: We love reddit, but it was a mistake to use a centralized platform. Lemmy is FOSS and decentralized, so it will be more resistant to the problems we had on Reddit.
Mid-Late 2023: We canβt stand all the tankies, letβs defederate so we canβt see them! Nevermind that this will make us more centralized, itβs more important to quash voices of dissent.
2024: We canβt stand that tankies made our platform and wonβt let us turn it into Reddit. Weβre going to make our very own Reddit!
2025: Running a site is expensive. We need to find some revenue sources and will be testing the use of ads to fund our site. You can always opt out of ads by signing up for a subscription.
2026: Finance capital, hell yeah!
Later: Our platform fell apart again just like Reddit, how could we have seen this coming??
Ok I have no real opinion on Rust, but I hate Java. Who willingly chooses it at this point? What does it do that C# (or literally anything else, I assume Rust is ok, Iβm just a boomer) doesnβt? Its so bad, one of my professors did a βI made this program in each languageβ test and had to make a graph without Java because literally every other language looked the same otherwise.
No this isnβt me being salty 5 years after Java refused to handle a basic object for a college project and brought my grade for a class down a whole letter. Haha
Itβs used everywhere in business so youβre basically guaranteed to find a job if youβre good with it, and vice versa, the hiring pool is big if youβre a corporation. Itβs got a robust standard library. In the last few years itβs picked up more and more useful features like lambdas and dynamic typing to cut down on boilerplate. Itβll run on basically anything and you, the developer, donβt need to worry about compiling to specific target platforms. Itβs also avoided a lot of the design-by-committee garbage thatβs turned C++ into a Venn diagram of feature incompatibility.
That said, package management in java kind of sucks. Thereβs still plenty of boilerplate. The language is highly dependent on meta-programming annotations in many cases that hide code from you and obscure details. Exceptions are stupid and expensive.
apparently they are using a script to automatically migrate all the communities and users
Why are they doing this?
The site owners are terrified by the concept of the tankie Lemmy devs being able to just doβ¦ Unspecified tankie things to the site code. They canβt come up with a good reason or an actual example, so itβs just the same thing as red scare panic about Chinese aluminium today or Soviet iron in the past.
Totally baseless fear that somehow using software made by communists will give us some sort of nebulous control over them to do something nefarious.
Totally baseless fear that somehow using software made by communists will give us some sort of nebulous control over them to do something nefarious.
On another note, we should use software to give us some sort of control over them.
I think thatβs what @ComradeOohAah@hexbear.net is working on.
to help offer our users more diverse options for expressing themselves online.
If you want the REAL feelings of individuals, they need to feel safe to express themselves.
As long as we donβt think youβre a Putinist shill or CCP bot for having an opinion that is to the left of us.
we still punk π€ππ€
Real energy.
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