Discord is just high quality and

What are you smoking and can you share the contact info of your dealer?

the major issue with forums, as pointed out, is the hassle of having to go from one website to another to talk about various subjects and needing to sign up to each one of them.

Honestly the “having to sign up” part would be trivial to solve if topical forums just globally adopted OpenID sign-in or similar. No need to have one account per community if you already have (or “are”) an account in the World.

But even then, there’s a point to having to go through a sign-up process. At least some sort of vetting. We have seen how far have fallen all the communities that have ever relaxed sign-ups (as another comment in this thread shows, there was once a time when FB only allowed educated people in).

It’s 2024, h264 runs on a CPU like nothing, why haven’t we figured out how to do these things yet?

It’s not about the hardware. (Not like it’s that ubiquitous anyway; I’m daily driving a machine from 2017)

I’m going to guess part of it is because for the things that matter to the people who do end up having to code, test and distribute stuff, something like “seamless screen sharing” or “video conference” doesnt really matter.

And IMO, that’s good if we want to Recover the Web.

The idea behind being in something like a jabber chatroom, or a web forum, is that I can pay attention to 12 channels (or whatever) at a time, read one or two, reply in three others, etc. Text is so un-invasive that I can just explore without bothering myself or anyone else.

In comparison, something like audio chat or video chat is more presence-encompassing. You can’t really “push to talk” three different things to three chatrooms at about once, and you likely can but won’t want to listen to three chatrooms full of people at the same time. For something like a videoconference you not only need a camera, but a good behind-you because not only who knows who or what will be showing back there.

In the end, something like a simple jabber-like chatroom is far easier and more productive to work on, even before we get to the coding part.

Not to mention: this is computer stuff. No one really likes to work on “debt”, which is what “Foo has to have ‘screen sharing’ because Discord has it” ultimately boils down to.

This is the most stupidest idea (yes, double superlative, that’s how bad it is) I’ve heard posted on the Fediverse since… well, the last time I heard the most stupidest idea, and that was also here on the Fediverse. So, congratulations on that front.

There’s like 123456 bad things with this idea, starting with the obvious of blockchain and cryptocurrency, and continuing with the fact that “quality of instances” is equated to “consumption of content”. Popularity and connectivity are not indicators of quality.

requests Google Static

requests Cloudflare

Nice try, fed.

Some of the best stuff in the world looks like it’s 20 years past a prime that isn’t, because they’re truly good eternal.

This definitively was not in my 2024 Bingo card:

Republicans masking

IDK how easy it still is these days.

[packagemanagername] install xnest, tbh.

Hell, trolls could go around and recreate accounts on the top 100 instances with the same username users have on other instances to prevent them from reusing the same username elsewhere, just that is a weird concept to explain

Yes but that doesn’t mean you should get automatic dibs on a name everywhere. It’s just a name. If you are Joe Bill at lemm.ee, that does not give you any rights over the name Joe Bill all across the world. Statistically speaking, there’s at least 18 thousand other Joe Bills around at this very moment.

Like, this is something that is already solved by the instance’s moderators.

Well, what’s stopping someone else from adopting TomHanks@Lemm.ee?

There’s over 1400 people solely in the US named Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks The Celebrity does not get patent rights or trademarks or copyrights on the name.

Wanna know which is the Tom Hanks The Celebrity? Check if their profile is authenticated against their personal website, à-la-Mastodon.

A toot is literally the sound of a birb. It’s got more comfy than “tweet” does.

Yeah definitively sounds like even more support for Rust and/or Python in this sense.

Languages

C.

Frameworks

C.

That said, Python and Rust are great for setting up “starting up” / “small task” apps and growing up from there.

Sounds like a good idea in theory, but in practice would kill the entire usefulness of the subscribed view if people have to subscribe to entire magazines / communities / whatever only to vote on one particular stuff in them that is relevant to them.

Oh, and for the record, linux is ALSO a confusing hot mess for the average person. But until linux developers accept this,

I’ve heard the same kind of stuff about lots… lots of things that “will never catch on”. Every one of those doomsayers were wrong. Some of them unfortunately, but still, they were all wrong.

God I wish someone went and finally fixed that. It’s incredible that of all the FOSS and community stuff you can find on the internet, lemmy is the big one that can’t even remotely be browsed via w3m / elinks / anything-without-Javascript.

If this later returns as ed.ch (more streamlined and lightweight, minimal featureset, perhaps not even the ability to store remote files so as to avoid the CSAM issues, etc) it’ll be The Day.

I would hav thought stuff like Lemmy would have configurations to eg.: not allow to upload images locally, only hotlink.

Anyway, an alternative is “zero knowledge” storage, where you don’t know what you are storing (hence, you can’t “choose” what to host or not host either). Another alternative is disjoint storage, where two different servers store different halves of a file (eg.: an Odd Bytes server and an Even Bytes server), but this means now it’s necessary to hit more servers to recover a file.

But the sensible thing to do IMO is to apply “common carrier” concept. The water distribution company is not, to my knowledge, held liable when something happens like you fill a bucket of water and share it with someone else.

Rust is mainstream now,

I mean, if you mean “Rustplaining is commonplace”, yeah.

All that is needed is a way to find what you want and a solid system of building trusted profiles with ratings and such.

Wouldn’t the second part require a trusted means to verify that a given profile actually sold you the promised thing, as well as some trusted means (two-party signing, maybe) to announce that a payment actually took place?