[-] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

People need to understand what this will mean from a developer perspective before getting all up in arms. This initiative is more kneejerk emotional than it is realistic.

If you're going to watch only one of these videos, watch the second one:

https://youtu.be/ioqSvLqB46Y

https://youtu.be/x3jMKeg9S-s

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

They have to restrict themselves to pickpocketing roaming NPC fascists.

What? Fascists? RuneScape doesn't have...

Oh. HAM, I almost forgot about those guys.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

OF requires strict government issued ID verification in some jurisdictions. Patreon does not, at least in the US.

That should be your deciding factor already. No one should have their privacy invaded just to send you a few bucks a month.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

He did not really step down, it was just a symbolic public gesture. He's still actively contributing to the project, check the GitHub commits and comments. He just stopped having so many Twitter meltdowns.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

You also can't open two spreadsheets that have the same filename. I'm sure that's led to a helpdesk call or two.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't need or want replication of my private projects to a peer to peer network. That's just extra bandwidth to and from my server, and bandwidth can be expensive. I already replicate my code to two different places I control, and that's enough for me.

I'm not sure who Radicle is for, but I don't think the casual hobbyist looking to self host something like Forgejo would benefit at all from Radicle.

Loading the source code for Radicle on Radicle also seems fairly slow. It seems this distributed nature comes at a speed tradeoff.

With the whole Yuzu thing going on, I can see some benefit to Radicle for high profile projects that may be subject to a takedown. In that respect, it's a bit like "Tor for Git."

I suspect that over time, pirate projects and other blatantly illegal activities will make use of Radicle for anti-takedown reasons. But to me, these two projects solve two different problems, for two different audiences, and are not really comparable.


Edit: There is already enough controversy surrounding Radicle, that, if I were someone looking to host a takedown-resistant, anonymous code repository, I would probably be better served hosting an anonymous Forgejo instance on a set of anonymous Njalla domains and VPSes. The blockchain aspect was already a bit odd, and what I'm now seeing from Radicle does not exactly inspire confidence. I don't think I'll ever use this.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

18 isn't long enough, better wait until 34

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

A bit too late for that now. Once they killed Inbox I just migrated everything to ProtonMail. Don't even use my Gmail address anymore.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No one is calling you a cheapskate. It's just that when you said this:

its not a noble cause to pay some dude who made an app we dont need

...in context, it comes off as "Sync is not necessary to exist, therefore no one should pay him."

I understand what you mean now, but you worded it terribly.

And by the way, going around in the comments being unnecessarily hostile and calling people "dumbfuck" or "asshole," when they were just as confused at your poor phrasing, makes you come off as an asshole, so maybe work on that :)

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

Reminds me of the trans affirming misogynist parrot

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm not sure about Mastodon, but at least for Lemmy, not every piece of information is available from the API or web interface. Some of it is only sent through federation. Namely, who, specifically, voted for something, edit history, probably a few other things.

Does Mastodon just hand over a complete list of everyone who liked a post? Even if it has thousands of likes? That kind of data would be very valuable to a company like Facebook.

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