Generally I’m presuming that threads is sucking up lots of people who are alt-social curious. They may have just drifted to doom scrolling there.
Seems to be affecting BlueSky too. Plenty of Brazilians joined, but I’d bet plenty more joined threads.
And I’m not sure it’s spoken about enough. With Threads, big-social just artificially segregated the market (is musk/Zuck really a choice?) and are sucking the oxygen out of alt-social.
It’s imo THE issue with the threads embrace.
Yea interesting. My personal take is that these boundaries are mostly artificial and come from for-profit big-social platforms building walled gardens.
Personally, for the fediverse, I'd throw away "reddit", "twitter" etc and start again from fundamentals. Links, text, images, comments, replies, threading ... etc.
I also believe the separation between lemmy and mastodon has hurt the fediverse and it'd be a better, nicer and even bigger place if there were decent interop.
> he plugins are still very few compared to other mature editors. also, it’s not quite as configurable as Sublime
AFAIU, it doesn't have a plugin runtime, which is fairly glaring to me (but maybe not for devs these days).
This is what triggered my "is it hype" thought, as I've seen people say it does but it's in rust or something.
And I feel like many fail to realise how hard it is to build a new editor with everything we take for granted these days.
Fediverse & typst similarly.
I get that peeps are coming from VSCode and I support competition with MS’s EEE of software dev.
But, like, bloat and corporate capture were always the trade offs with VSCode … you all knew that right?
I get that peeps are coming from VSCode and I support competition with MS’s EEE of software dev.
But, like, bloat and corporate capture were always the trade offs with VSCode … you all knew that right?
Unfortunately it’s unlikely to come soon as mastodon is a while away from implementing groups and are doing it their own incompatible way.
This tag process works though and I’m happy the lemmy devs implemented it.
Spread the word.
I don’t believe so. I’m pretty sure I’ve checked it, but I could be wrong.
It makes sense though as hashtags are a different mechanism from follows and boosts.
You could do a quick test with the test community and the test hashtag.
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Yea ... it seems that things like this are part of Julia's problem ...
that for many the "two language problem" is actually the "two language solution" that's working just fine and as intended, or as you say, well enough to make an ecosystem jump seem too costly.
Yea I remember reading about some deeper issues with the language (Dan Luu was quite dark on it I think) and that more or less turned me off. At the time I would have had to have been amongst some dedicated users urging me on to consider adoption.
In general, how much more performant would you say Rust is or can be than Julia? Any good resources on this?
What's interesting about this take is that it targets the whole "two language" thing and implies that it might be a fool's errand.
Problem with that logic is that python was essentially "reborn" at some point 2010-2012.
That's when scipy, pandas and notebooks all came together, and with early pandas putting python on the map more than some (cough - Guido - cough) are willing to admit.
Of course the maturity of the ecosystem by then is part of it ... but also pushing through the python 3 situation wasn't trivial and likely speaks to the momentum the science stack brought to the ecosystem.
UI differences are a big factor in the success/failure of decentralised federation of diverse platforms and content
And this seems a good example: bridged #mastodon posts onto #BlueSky which has a lower character limit than Mastodon.
So, just like #lemmy posts on mastodon, you don't get the full content of the post (which ends with an abrupt ellipsis here) and have to take a link to the original platform.
However powerful the underlying protocols, this isn't far from screenshots.
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Yea generally in relation to the fediverse. Obviously not the whole of the Fedi, but there’s a lot of acceptance and embrace, notably from major masto instance admins, CEOs and AP authors.