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Continuwuity (thelemmy.club)
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I got distracted from my work so I made some Continuwuity propaganda. Continuwuity is a lightweights Matrix chat server that you can self-host pretty easily. Give it a try :3

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[–] 69 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

This is the homeserver written in Rust, right?

A suggestion: wherever a QR code is included, the human-readable content should be included next to it. Not everyone has a QR code reader handy, or their reader has the bad habit of immediately opening links or apps. In this case, I see that it just goes to https://continuwuity.org/ and is benign, but others may be apprehensive at naked QR codes.

(there's obviously an exception for QR codes that are intended to convey machine info, like TOTP codes)

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I was very excited when I started seeing QR codes gaining popularity. That excitement was quickly shattered when everyone just started using them improperly and they just made everything more annoying 😮‍💨

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    What exactly is “improper use”?

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Putting simple things behind a qrwall. I once went to a presentation and they had that qr code to scan to get the certificate, and I went there without my phone, so I got no certificate (I needed it for academic bureaucracy). restaurants with qr-only menus also come to mind. Oh, I also saw once a school with the timetables mural with just qrs and nothing else written, so if new students didn't have a phone AND mobile internet, they couldn't find by themselves where and when their classes took place

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Lots of people use Lemmy via mobile. How am I supposed to scan a QR code?

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  • [+] -8 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Print it out and scan it. Use a barcode reader. Use another mobile. Upload it to a barcode decoder website.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Or I could just scroll past it and not give them the time of day because they were too lazy to post a link, you know, the primary method for navigating the internet for decades now. Why the need to overly complicate things?

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  • [–] [S] -5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    It is!

    Yeah, I see your point, and I included the link in the alt text. On the actual design itself though, any URL I wrote in could be completely different from the QR so it seems slightly pointless - especially as it would just be writing Continuwuity a third time haha

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Including the URL isn't to act as a check on the contents of the QR code, but to act as an alternative for those who don't want to scan it at all.

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  • [+] [S] -11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    The alternative is to search the name right next to the code in this design

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago*

    This is not a good idea: having to search means an implicit reliance on a search engine. Even with a trustworthy web search -- and those are becoming fewer and fewer -- why add this complication? The URL doesn't even have to be large; it just has to be readable.

    Even worse is when there's an adversary: what would stop someone from buying getcontinuwuity.org but have it be pro-Big Tech propaganda, with tracking cookies galore, and then pay Google or Bing to put it at the top of the web search results?

    Whereas in 2026, a URL is not confusing at all to include. People know what http:// or https:// mean. Even big brands might not own their own product name's domain. This exact problem came up just six days ago: https://www.neowin.net/news/paintnet-can-finally-be-downloaded-from-the-right-place/

    The whole point of marketing is to reduce the barriers for people to find something useful or valuable. Adding an accessibility barrier is antithetical to that objective.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago*

    I know you are in good faith (and I already run my continuwuity server!), but in ppractical terms you are suggesting to use Google, and I don't want to. Expecially for something you could have included in text in the post.

    edit: I am reminded of Richard Stallman spelling out full URLs during conferences, complete with subdirectories. It is silly, but it works.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    I can see a lot of opinions & comments on the QR part and, with respect, I'd like to add that I'm reading this post on a device where I'd like to view the site on the same device, so a QR isn't best for this platform.

    I'd go a little further and say that QRs and really only useful for a mediim where you want the user to use a 2nd device (printed media, BSODs, etc)

    Also putting the URL in the (for my reader) non-clickable alt-text doesn't help either

    Again, with respect, you're making it harder for your audience to reach you, not easier.

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