Chris TrottierJun 12, 2023

Redditors, how do you like Lemmy?

https://beehaw.org/post/521802

Redditors, how do you like Lemmy? - Beehaw

I run a few groups, like @[email protected], mostly on Friendica. It’s okay, but Friendica resembles Facebook Groups more than Reddit. I also like the moderation options that Lemmy has. Currently, I’m testing jerboa, which is an Android client for Lemmy. It’s in alpha, has a few hiccups, but it’s coming along nicely. Personally, I hope the #RedditMigration sours adoption of more Fediverse server software. And I hope Mastodon users continue to interact with Lemmy and Kbin. All that said, as a mod of a Reddit community (r/Sizz) I somewhat regret giving Reddit all that content. They have nerve charging so much for API access! Hopefully, we can build a better version of social media that focuses on protocols, not platforms.

Show threadunique_hempJun 12, 2023

It's looking great! I joined just 2 days ago and the communities I subscribed to are already looking much more lively today. Thanks, Reddit blackout!

Also written in Rust, btw :)

Show threadnii236Jun 13, 2023
Weirdly enough the fact that it’s written in rust is why I am using it instead of kbin (PHP)
Show threadCanadaPlusJun 13, 2023
PHP!? They're writing the shiny new thing in the joke language from r/ProgrammerHumor?
Show threadGreyscaleMar 12

lol

Imagine letting the circle jerk program you like that.

Show threadCanadaPlusMar 12

Hello future person, Kbin is dead now. You can go ahead and give me your pitch for why PHP is a great programming language, though - I’ve never used it.

You could also word that as “deferring to other people with more experience trying to use PHP”.

Show threadGreyscale

It gets a lot of hate. But it also drives a whole bunch of large businesses, and a lot of products. Its not trendy, but it gets the work done. In the past there were many bad products made ontop of it, but those products made sales, so were they really all that bad?

Its popular to use it like a punching bag, but the reality is its sigificantly better than the time period where most of the “hate” comes from. A time before javascript.

Its funny, people struggle to hit c10k with modern application stacks, but we had been doing it since before the iPhone.

I quite like it, its quite clean, the tooling isn’t painful, and its fairly easy to make applications go fast.

tl;dr its a conservative technical choice, and ergo, unfashionable, but also drives a good portion of the internet.

Mar 12 at 5:12pmWeb
Show threadCanadaPlusMar 12

Interesting to hear it’s fast.

Saying “you can use it and it has been used a lot” feels a bit like faint praise, on the other hand. I appreciate the effort to write me up a reply, though.

Show threadGreyscaleMar 12
Honestly, keeping the excitable children in TypeScript-land is for the best. I just wish they’d shut the fuck up about their AI workflows while I’m around.