Whichever one you’re in right now, /u/[email protected]

We’re gate-keeping the most mainstream programming language now? Next you’ll say English isn’t a real language because it doesn’t have a native verb tense to express hearsay.

lmao… after this response to criticism, I definitely don’t want to trust any “service” you create.

you can deploy it on your own

Anyone can host an open-source URL shortener for their own links. How many people do? If something like this ever takes off, it will have to be centralized due to the nature of the product. And that adds extra bottlenecks for the community.

There are already instances down. […] If you want something that’s guaranteed to run forever, tough luck.

Despite instances being down the fediverse is fine. The content that was created by users on these instances was already federated to other instances so we didn’t lose it. You can’t go back and change links the same way. You’re not federating. You’re handing out code for running individual centralised servers. That’s why I said that this is opposed to federation.

This is specifically for use outside Lemmy

You seem to have overlooked a really important insight about your own project. Who has preferred Lemmy instances? People who already have Lemmy accounts!! If someone doesn’t have a preference, this service is a useless extra hop.

Lemmy users can voluntarily install browser extensions to improve their own experience. Lemmy apps can claim domains so that at least common lemmy instances are recognised. This is true freedom and convenience without being beholden to a third-party website.

I feel like you implemented the first idea that came to your mind and now you are just defending the project instead of trying to see the bigger picture.

In my opinion this runs counter to the idea of federation; i wouldn’t use it.

You probably do intend to keep it running for ever, but if you can’t for whatever reason, all links created using this service become dead links. If this were client-side, maybe. But this needs a server to be running at lemmyverse.link and/or threadiverse.link. Imagine someone else gets hold of those domains. They can snoop every use.

I have multiple accounts and might want to choose based on what I’m researching. If it were on a client, it should be a widget, but this doesn’t allow me to switch that so easily.

I think the solution should be for all Lemmy clients to detect links when possible and open them up in-app and/or have browser plugins that can redirect requests on the user’s machine. These won’t cover all the cases that your service can, but i would still prefer that over all Lemmy links being resolved by a centralized service that can read your cookies.

Only if we could know how much to save for tomorrow.

Two weeks since this post, i think https://programming.dev is clearly where the rust community is moving to. It’s already so much bigger than the others. There are close to 1k subscribers.

He’s made it easier by filming himself.

Let Iran colonize the US.

Is this closer?

Clay mostly. And some excrement.

Tomatoes were only introduced to Italy in the 1500s (from the Americas) so i highly doubt they had tomatoes in Pompeii at that time. :)

We went from everyone hosting their personal websites to thousands of blogs to a handful social media websites. The history has favoured homogenisation. Fediverse (not Lemmy) might be that one thing where everyone shares their thoughts; siloed social media websites like Reddit will probably become irrelevant in the future like the “internet” forums from the ‘00s are today.

Thank you!

I just discovered wefwef and I just want to say thank you. It’s amazing. And it’s incredible how you’re single-handedly improving it so quickly as well. My muscle memory from years of using Apollo isn’t going to go to waste after all!

How would you prefer accept bug reports and suggestions? There are some minor issues that I’ve noticed. For example, when replying to a large comment/post (like this one by you) the space for typing gets congested and if I try to scroll up my own comment, the whole dialog attempts to close. My workaround is to drag the cursor instead.

Hard to strategise in the middle of a war :)

Man, webapps have come so far. I’m using wefwef.app as a PWA and the experience is so great.

I read somewhere that Putin threatened the families of Wagner officers and not Prigozhin’s himself. More plausible IMO because the chain is as weak as its weakest links. Putin might have found just enough leverage.

Thanks for sharing that article. Most open-source projects start not with a plan to monetise but because an engineer wanted to solve a problem by themselves.

Also, when i read zloirock’s post about what it takes to maintain ‘core-js’, i couldn’t understand why he would not just walk away or at least take on a lesser role. It isn’t good for any project if it depends on one person. Especially for something that is such a core part of the js ecosystem (pun intended). I’m sure he’d get lots of volunteers if not the money directly.

pfft... These are fans of Shahrukh Khan outside Mannat (1999)

Do barbers also depend on tips? That’s need to me.

Well said. Such huge culture shifts are hard because of the pain involved in the transition. On the Other side we have employees being paid fairly and predictably and customers not being punished for their generosity. But the in-between will be employees being paid less but not earning via tips which just keeps the status quo.