Is there an issue about this in the GitHub tracker? It could be an unintentional consequence.

Lemmy, which is pretty known for its opinionated devs

The opinions of the devs have so far (at least as far as I know) not spread into the actual code though.

I feel like you’re moving from moderation to sort of oppressive or authoritarian territory once you’re literally building a social credit system into your software. If you want that, sure use PieFed. I don’t want that, so I won’t.

No just the whole thing. It seems sort of extreme to do all this stuff in the code. This is not something the software should have inbuilt if you ask me.

I mean okay sure, you can disable these things. But the fact that they are enabled out of the box in the software as written is a huge red flag.

… Wow. I mean I already knew there was some questionable stuff with PieFed but this is honestly next level.

Downvote and move on, if the name becomes familiar block them.

Sorry, but you forgot a step:

Downvote and move on, if the name becomes familiar report them and then block them.

Moderators should help so not all users will need to block these bad actors.

Perhaps that was exactly the intent, to ensure that only actual humans read the content?

If that’s the case, it has the opposite effect. Humans generally benefit from being able to select text and not just read from an image. It’s of course especially important for blind people.

Meanwhile computers can easily read images via OCR algorithms.

Alright alright, definitely in those contexts there is no problem, of course.

I mean, that’s still acknowledging that damage is being done, just less than actual graffiti. I’d rather not associate the fediverse with defacing public spaces with half-scraped off stickers.

Again, feel like a t-shirt or a cap is a much better option.

It might be because I am in Denmark which has quite a functioning and lawful system and where I see the most graffiti is in public transport, like on trains and train stations. The transport company spends a lot of money cleaning that graffiti, making public transport more expensive for everyone else (hence antisocial behavior).

So I can understand where you are coming from but my perspective is just different.

I definitely do not find graffiti cool. It’s illegal and antisocial behavior. The art can be cool of course (although it very rarely is in my experience), but the illegal act is not.

Isn’t this not much better than graffiti? I think advocating for the fediverse is great, but let’s not plaster unnecessary and potentially illegal posters/advertisements everywhere.

If you want to display an appreciation for the fediverse, perhaps there are T-shirts with the fediverse logo?

We’re actually seeing a rise in new user applications over at Feddit.dk. The hostile behavior of the US has gotten some Reddit users to seek alternatives to american platforms.

Fediverse platforms are not in competition with each other. In fact, it’s more like symbiosis. There’s no problem with having 15 or even 100 fediverse platforms.

Why do you need a culture shift if anyone can just pick whatever platform they personally prefer? If you want a certain cultural approach, then feel free to use a fediverse platform with that approach, but there’s no need for anyone else to follow the same choice, unless they want to.

I think the author brings some interesting points, but ultimately I think it’s a faulty premise.

The fediverse is whatever the user wants it to be. That’s the whole point really. If you want a reliable communications platform with zero dropped messages, aka email 2.0, then you can definitely build that on the fediverse and people can join such a platform if that’s what they want.

If that’s not what you want… Well then don’t join such a platform. Join another one. You do you.

We don’t need anyone telling us how to communicate or consume content or whatever we want to do with the fediverse. The whole point of the fediverse is that everyone gets to decide for themselves, so there’s no need to be prescriptive about any one approach.

Is Dioxus easy to get started with?

I haven’t tried it myself but I’ve read the tutorials and it looks very React-inspired. It looks quite easy to pick up. It is still based on HTML and CSS but you can use one code base for all platforms.

Rust programs can definitely still consume a lot of memory. Not using a garbage collector certainly helps with memory usage, but it’s not going to change it from gigabytes to kilobytes. That requires completely rethinking how things are done.

That said I’m very much in favour of everyone learning Rust, as it’s a great language - but for other reasons than memory usage :)

Or just use rust for everything with Dioxus. At least, that’s what Dioxus is going for.

Have you tried the Rust book? I learned via that and it’s great.