It’s a friendly transaction between users purely out of the desire to help, and leaving it available to those who have the same question.
Further, it’s a transaction that Reddit facilitated out of their own pocket. I think people are being extremely petty about it. It’s best to just mourn and move on, we can still appreciate the golden years that Reddit gave us.
I agree, it seems very petty to me. If you don’t like the direction just leave, what’s the point of trying to burn it down? Especially given how much we all got out of it throughout the golden years. I say just mourn and move on.
I do not think it’s fair to assume that everyone came to lemmy for the same reasons as you. I for one came because I didn’t like the decisions they were making, not because I had any strong feelings about the ethics of those decisions.
Yeah, no offense to the admins who I’m sure are just trying to do their users right, but stuff like this is making me see the value of running my own instance, or at perhaps finding a more hands-off one. It’s weird to me that instance admins (or popular votes) make the decisions about what content I get to have access to.
I guess browser extension would be well suited to add account-switching/aggregating. Likewise mobile apps.
Not trying to insert my own opinion but I believe it’s because the core Lemmy devs actually admin and/or are involved in said instance. Well verify for yourself but somebody said it’s hosted from the same IP as lemmy.ml. And the core devs comment and moderation histories are public for all to see.
You pointed out all the extra complexities. Visiting multiple websites, and making a decision, and understanding what the decision means. Those are the complexities, nobody is saying they are big but even you recognize they exist.
Mainstream is also what killed Reddit, better to have a “big enough to be good” community. I almost appreciate that the barrier of entry is slightly higher.
This seems like exactly the sort of rule that should be applied at the community level. Instance level rules should be kept as minimal as possible.
If I were implementing this nefarious Reddit I probably wouldn’t have edits wipe out the original data. It’s certainly not necessary to implement edits that way.
As for 1. I’m told they’re getting rid of websockets in the next release, which should mean this annoying behavior goes away as well.
I’d imagine your best bet is reading through the w3c spec if you want protocol details. I think reading it directly is probably approachable enough for a CS student and should be a good exercise.
For what it’s worth, i just used the “add to Home Screen” feature on my phone’s web browser (from my instance homepage) and it’s working great. Indistinguishable from a normal “app” experience. In my case Safari on iOS but i doubt it matters.
Edit: looks like this:
100% of people who say shit like this in reference to Norway don’t know that Norway isn’t a member of the EU.