Yea that's not explained better than a math teach. They just swapped notation common in math, for notation common in one specific programming language. it's only easier for the audience who happens to be familiar with programming in general, and that language in particular.

I don't understand why people frequently say this. While it's true you can pay money for them, I've never spent a dime on reddit and have given out over 50 golds and have enough coins to give out a half dozen more. I don't know what the mechanics are for earning the coins I have, all I can say is I haven't paid for any of them yet I do have them, so it's not true that when someone gives an award it was paid for with real money.

no it isn't. My interest in Lemmy is not romantic and if you do agree with this, get out and engage people in person more often.

no love for the Relay expats?

See here's the thing - if you are worried about protesting reddit, that inherently means you're hoping to interact with it. As far as I'm concerned, just don't care. Yes I disagree with what reddit is doing. Does that mean I shouldn't give it any visits or make any posts? well, depends on what I want to do. For example, just now I used it to spread info about some of this to fellow mods and within our local community. I believe it was worth doing. I don't believe it was less positive than just being overly simple minded and saying "I don't like what reddit is doing, therefore it's bad if i use reddit."

any mods that rolled over to continue doing an unpaid job just to retain some form of power are bitches.

Personally, I don't believe that POV is fair. As someone who, with a small group of friends, started a sub that has grown to 100k people and is the most active internet community for a niche gaming segment - i personally think it's not that easy to judge. I have not been active on my sub in years, and I leave the job up to the new guard, but I can completely respect the decision to want to keep something you invested in building alive and a positive influence in the area it affects. It's easy to armchair QB stuff like this and judge others decisions, but to just generalize and say "better to die than to think something else is better in the bigger picture" is a bit of a cop out imo.

I posted this in Ask Lemmy but since it didn't get traction I'm gonna piggyback on the visibility of this thread:

As i learn my way around ActivityPub based services, what stands out to me the most is federation is very much exposed to the users. (That, or I still just haven’t wrapped my head around the architecture details and how they manifest in terms of user experience.)

Am I just misunderstanding this, or would the end-user experience be more fluid and functional if the federation mechanics were mostly ‘under the hood’. What I mean by that is - right now if there’s a community I would enjoy participating in that is located on a different instance, in order to do that I need to (a) know it exists in the first place, (b) know what instance it is on, and (c) explicitly tell my instance about its address in order to join.

Would it be possible to have some form of master index (replicated across instances - not a centralized service) along with a public standard for registering an instance/community on the index? And if something like that existed, couldn’t that push what is an inherently more technical detail to lower levels of the implementation, and make for a simpler UX by allowing every instance to expose a more complete list of communities to users from directly within whatever instance they choose to use?

And what is it with the narrow aspects? I totally get the need for mobile support, but the default desktop view looks like it's trying to play nice with old 4:3 aspects. If that's the root design goal, I sure hope we can let that design goal die. In a 16:9 maximized window there is so much wasted real estate it pains me.

18pp isn't a small margin. 49 vs 51 is a small margin. 41 vs 59 is no contest.

Sure but anyone can implement something using the activityPub spec and federate with other instances regardless of what flavor they're using.

from what i understand, this is syntax implemented on lemmy. it's not from the deeper ActivtyPub protocol all of these things are implementing. If that's true, it won't render on kbin how it does on lemmy.

there are are lot of idiots, a lot. I don't know how to fix that, so I just ignore them and move on.