There’s no wanting to do the right thing here. This is one person’s ego driving them to think they knew better than everyone else, and that kind of thinking should not be not be given any grace.
I can’t say I agree. He did think he knew what was good for everyone but I think it truly was “right” in his mind. It’s a bizarre and dishonest thing to do, but I think he thought it was justified. He probably won’t self reflect but leaving here will make it more likely.
Yeah that’s my take on it. It was a very weird thing to do on many levels. Especially doing it with the secret API call. The guy didn’t understand the fediverse and wanted to mold it arbitrarily. Even if he had gone about it non-secretly it was very doomed to failure for a lot of reasons, but doing it secretly was making sure it would fail even harder. The whole idea of this platform is that you can block any number of instances/people/communities but trying to secretly do that on other people’s behalf was never going to end well.
Having said all that, there is quite a bit of toxicity here that goes unchecked. But his idiotic way of dealing with it was never the right move.
I just didn’t like it. I did a tutorial years ago and it all felt unnatural and hard to read/write.
Bash syntax sucks but imo rust syntax is 50 times worse. Interesting idea though.
On Lemmy, topics you expect to be discussed for a couple of days are trending for several days minimum. I’m not sure why that is, but it seems pretty consistent.
Got it. I missed that there was a keyword filter actually. I made it to the user blocklist though!
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I’m not sure “sane” is the best word for us generally 😂
But I get your point and agree with it
This is the correct take, and I kinda hate many things AI is doing.
I don’t really have a reason to hate something I’ve never used and never cared about at all until I saw I was weirdly targeted by it. I think it’s a bizarre curiousity that attempted to make the fediverse “better” but made it worse. But I’m guessing not that many people as a percentage used it. And now it’s been deleted so it’s overall barely a blip.
Not sure but imo a great frontend would work w/o js but work smoother with it. Progressive enhancement used to be a thing…
So typical of a captian* account.
Well imo, on lemmy anyhow, they do get a million times more recognition. Everyone is in the cult of Mint, which is one of the few I tried briefly and actively did not like it.
Hmm alright. I too dislike some things about Ubuntu but on the other hand you cannot blame people (myself included) who either have tried other distros and had support issues and came back to Ubuntu based, or those who just want the easier route to begin with. Ubuntu-based seems to be a good compromise for many. I’ve also used arch and fedora and had more headaches and breakages on those. Also I literally have a laptop that gets supported on Ubuntu so it makes life easier all around. Fuck some of the things canonical does but I just do not want to spend time with things like fixing my wifi connection after running pacman -S install or whatever that command is.
We should probably burn down the homes of people who use it then /s
Kind of an asshole statement tbh
What I find so weird about his list is how random it was. To hear him tell it you cannot be on the list without being super toxic and calling for violence but I don’t believe that. You just had to disagree with him afaik