nutomic
@nutomic@lemmy.ml
Lemmy maintainer. Interested in politics, video games, and many other things.
- Comment on Is Lemmy growing or shrinking? 4 weeks ago:
Having other projects which are similar to Lemmy is a great sign. It means users have more choices available and developers can experiment with different solutions. It’s really not a competition, because the existence of more compatible Fediverse projects will also benefit Lemmy, as there will be more users and more content.
- Comment on Is Lemmy growing or shrinking? 4 weeks ago:
Yes that’s me :)
- Comment on Quick video demonstrating that lemmy.world sends every activity out twice 5 weeks ago:
Sounds like there might be a bug in Lemmy then. Can you open an issue please?
- Comment on What's your take on Bluesky? 1 month ago:
The Activitypub protocol is fine. It could use some minor improvements but there’s definitely no reason for an entirely new protocol.
- Comment on Language tag on communities with "default language" 1 month ago:
The automatic language tag should only depend on the community language settings and user language settings. Specifically it will build the intersection of both, and if the result only contains one item (excluding “undetermined”), that is used as the post language. There havent been any changes in this area in a while, so there should be no difference between 0.19.x versions.
I thought maybe the community language isnt federated properly but its identical on all mentioned instances. Also @Camus@sh.itjust.works mentioned that French is enabled in user settings. There is clearly a bug but I cant think what else might be causing it.
Anyway please report such bugs directly on the issue tracker, otherwise I might not find out about it at all.
- Comment on Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative 1 month ago:
I answered a similar question here: lemmy.ml/comment/9329423
- Comment on Cory Doctorow gets scammed 2 months ago:
Hold on the scammer could spend 8000 usd without even knowing the card’s PIN number?
- Comment on Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative 2 months ago:
Actually its too complicated to change the title in Ibis due to federation. Plus I would have to rewrite the whole intro. But I will keep it in mind for the future.
- Comment on Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative 2 months ago:
I would be willing to change the title, maybe “the federated Wiki”?
- Comment on Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative 2 months ago:
At minimum it means you don’t have to create two separate accounts to make edits on both instances.
- Comment on Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative 2 months ago:
I’m not good at frontend development or webdesign so I definitely need help in those areas.
- Comment on Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative 2 months ago:
Yes it uses markdown.
- Comment on Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative 2 months ago:
Mediawiki is an extremely complicated project with 1.2 million lines of PHP. For me it was much easier to implement this project with technology Im already familiar with. But of someone wants to create a Mediawiki plugin I would be happy to see that.
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- Comment on The playground schematic analogy for designing a fediverse service. 2 months ago:
Youre welcome :)
- Comment on The playground schematic analogy for designing a fediverse service. 2 months ago:
I only wanted to point out that Sublinks will take a long time to be ready for production and to replace Lemmy. Some people seemed to think that its only a few weeks away. However this doesnt mean I want Sublinks to fail.
- Comment on The playground schematic analogy for designing a fediverse service. 2 months ago:
Thank you for the offer but its not necessary. Ive also maintained open source projects long before Lemmy so Im familiar with the occasional entitled user on Github. In my experience its not a good idea to make any promises to these users because they will view their entitlement as justified, and make more demands.
However its a completely different quality when its not just Github comments, but multiple blog posts within a few days attacking Lemmy and me personally. Sure my responses were not ideal, but it was the best I was capable of at that time. If I had said nothing, people would assume that all the accusations are true and I have nothing to defend myself (like the claim that Im a “tankie” which has been going around on Mastodon for years).
In any case I think its better to say something and get my view out rather than being quiet. Sure there are miscommunications but those can be cleared up, and I can learn how to communicate better in the future. On the other hand if I said nothing, I may be left with the impression that my work sucks, and lose all motivation to keep working on Lemmy. Then I would be stuck doing nothing at all. Luckily that hasnt happened, Im still working on the project like before.
- Comment on The playground schematic analogy for designing a fediverse service. 2 months ago:
Thanks for the support,i appreciate it and definitely don’t want people like you to go away. However there has been a lot of negativity during the last week, so automatically my attitude also got more negative in general.
- Comment on The playground schematic analogy for designing a fediverse service. 2 months ago:
Look at it this way: I’ve spent almost every single working day for the past four years developing Lemmy. I implemented the entire federation logic and much more. Most days and nights I think about ways to improve Lemmy and it’s not easy to shut off. Especially during the Reddit blackout it was extremely stressful as we were completely bombarded with requests, I didn’t even have time to keep up with all the issues.
Yet last week some individuals came along who never made any contributions to Lemmy and never showed the slightest gratitude for my work. They essentially what I’m doing is wrong and that they should be in charge of decisionmaking for Lemmy. One Beehaw admin even said that all my work on Lemmy is meaningless.
I know you and many others have good intentions with your criticism. But after all the negativity of last week I simply don’t have the mindset to accept any of it.
- Comment on The playground schematic analogy for designing a fediverse service. 2 months ago:
The only ones I want to chase away are those who somehow feel entitled to demand some specific work from me. But that is only a very small part of the userbase. I know Lemmy isn’t perfect and I’m working every day to improve it. If anyone thinks that some area is not getting enough attention, they are welcome to make a pull request and I will happily review it to get the changes merged.
- Comment on The playground schematic analogy for designing a fediverse service. 2 months ago:
Not true, at this point it seems inevitable that Lemmy will get even bigger. And that’s a good thing in my opinion. But that doesn’t mean it can encompass all different use cases. It’s normal that there will be forks and alternatives, just look at all the different microblogging projects on the Fediverse.
- Comment on The playground schematic analogy for designing a fediverse service. 2 months ago:
Because Lemmy can’t cover all the possible use cases, not with the very limited development resources we have. We need to set some priorities.
- Comment on The playground schematic analogy for designing a fediverse service. 2 months ago:
Its important to keep in mind that Lemmy is provided for free and as-is. It also hasnt reached version 1.0 yet so obviously there are still many features missing. Yet there are tens of thousands of users and hundreds of admins who are happy with Lemmy in its current state.
To continue with the analogy, if the Lemmy playground is not safe enough for your particular neighborhood, you have a few different choices:
- Wait for someone else to solve the problem (but this may take very long or forever)
- Solve the problem yourself, or pay someone to do it
- Use a different type of playground instead
Beehaw in particular has $5,470 in donation balance. This would cover my income for around 2.5 months. They could easily take this money to hire a developer and implement the features they require. Yet they believe that they are somehow entitled to dictating what I or Dessalines should work on.
- Comment on Surfacing Content from Smaller Communities on Lemmy 2 months ago:
There is already such an API endpoint which is available for mods and admins.
- Comment on Surfacing Content from Smaller Communities on Lemmy 2 months ago:
I agree that scaled sort is not working ideally right now. However the issues you linked were opened before the feature was released, so they are not relevant anymore. You are definitely welcome to open a new issue about improving the implementation. The scaled sort logic is here, if you have any concrete suggestions how to improve it thats even better. And I would rather improve this existing functionality to make it work as expected, before tacking on an entirely new feature which may or may not work.
- Comment on Surfacing Content from Smaller Communities on Lemmy 2 months ago:
Actually scores are regularly calcuated from a scheduled task which runs in Rust. Yes the score caculation is currently implemented in SQL, but it could also be changed to a Rust implementation or a plugin. This would probably need some optimization so that the plugin only calculates scores for recent posts, not every single known post. In any case it would need someone with the time and motivation to implement it.
- Comment on Surfacing Content from Smaller Communities on Lemmy 2 months ago:
Tagging would make sense to categorize posts within a single community. But you seem to suggest tags which are shared across communities. I dont really see the point of this, as communities themselves are already used for a global “tagging” of posts. So it would only duplicate that functionality.
- Comment on Why were so many people believers in the conspiracy that 9/11 was an inside job 2 months ago:
Interesting. However in this case the plane came down vertically so the wings/engines would hit the ground beside the building. In case of the pentagon, the plane supposedly flew horizontally at ground level, so the wings should crash directly into the building.
- Comment on Give me Options or give me death 2 months ago:
Has Google never heard of CI?
- Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media 2 months ago:
The bridge is nothing more than another Activitypub instance. You can block it in the same ways that you can block existing Mastodon or Lemmy instances. If users want to opt in to federate with it, they should also have to opt in manually to federate with every single Lemmy instance.