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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Both banned by your instance: lemmy.world/instances

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhost your own gitea instance - selfhosted, lightweight github alternative⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s been a hostile takeover at Gitea and it’s now run / owned by a for-profit company. The developers forked the project under the name Forgejo and are continuing the work under a non-profit. See also: Their introduction post and a page comparing the two projects. Feel free to look up more, since I haven’t familiarized myself with the incident all that much myself. Either way though, maybe consider using Forgejo instead of Gitea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How transwomen/transmen dream⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When you say “trans woman” you affirm that they are women, and trans is just an adjective. When you say “transwoman” it can imply that they are something different altogether, and TERFs have certainly used it as such. Like, I dunno, a carpark isn’t a park? That’s the first example that came to mind, anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Need to Talk About the State of Calendar Software on Desktop⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What I’m saying is that Microsoft is, in fact, being hostile by limiting OSS builds such as Codium in the ways I’ve mentioned above. I guess that’s how they try to get people to keep using their proprietary build instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Need to Talk About the State of Calendar Software on Desktop⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  except for visual studio code

  But also:

  • Telemetry everywhere
  • Not permitted to use the official marketplace with OSS builds
  • Not able to use certain extensions (like C# debugger) with OSS builds

  Though I’ve been very happy about the direction .NET and C# have been going, especially the licensing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Typing is not a programming bottleneck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And you can use the with expression to create clones of the object with some properties modified.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which language you wish would really grow and reach mainstream adoption?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Zig hasn’t been mentioned yet, so I’m just going to drop that here.

  I personally have enjoyed the meta-programming, the ease of integrating with C libraries, and like that it’s pretty straight-forward to compile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ELI5: How does Lemmy know to not show Mastodon posts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  On Mastodon, when you follow another user on another instance, your instance will send a request to the other, to be notified of new posts made by that user, as well as posts they’ve boosted. When such a new post arrives, a copy will be created on your instance so it can be displayed without nagging the original instance again for the post’s content and such.

  Lemmy is similar of course, since it uses the same underlying protocol (ActivityPub). Think of communities as “special users”. Whenever someone creates a post or reply, the community will boost it, so it ends up on every instance where a user has subscribed to that community.

  Because you can’t follow / subscribe to users on Lemmy, the posts of Mastodon users that don’t involve Lemmy never end up being “federated”, meaning Lemmy instances don’t get notified of these posts, so they don’t end up being “copied”. This is the same on Mastodon by the way. Unless your instance sends out a request to fetch posts from an unknown user, it doesn’t know about their posts, since nobody so far has cared about them.

  This makes sense because if you were to try and store all the content from the fediverse you would need a LOT of storage for little gain. Similarly it would be bad to never store the content and always fetch it, because that would generate a bunch of additional traffic, which especially small instances would suffer from.

  To summarize: Lemmy doesn’t display Mastodon posts because it doesn’t have a mechanism to subscribe to those users.