Oof, sounds like we really need a new, better put together version of the protocol. I wonder if the W3C would be good to do that.

Sounds like the protocol needs an upgrade if people are doing funny stuff like that. No?

A book? About programming? Whoa.

So… Many…

They will truly do anything not to admit the problem is cars

Have you looked into becoming a nurse practitioner? You sound like you might feel more fulfilled with more medical knowledge and a job in more of an expert role.

What the fuck, HTML. I kinda like it in a perverse way.

They’re not communist fight communities explicitly though. I haven’t joined any communist-themed communities. It’s just content that kinda bubbles up left and right.

I COULD start avoiding everything “.ml”, but that sounds counter-productive.

Well, it’s not because something has the potential to be addictive that it’s necessarily bad. After all, a video game that isn’t addictive at all could also be called boring.

I think the line between an enjoyable experience and unhealthy addictive features is drawn in user choice and the absence of malicious intent.

1. The apps are kinda meh. I haven’t found one that doesn’t come with significant disadvantages yet, and I’ve tried FIVE.

2. There’s no recommendations feed. You see what you’re subscribed to, or everything. No in-between. You can’t see what you’ve subscribed to, and a few posts that the algorithm thinks you might like. People like to complain about the algorithm, but one reason it’s so addictive is that it’s useful.

3. Notifications don’t work in every app

4. Just having a feed that behaves normally seems to be really hard to do for apps. Stop slowing me posts I’ve already scrolled past, and when I click home/pull down to refresh, I want new posts, not the same thing again that I’ve already scrolled past and ignored. Some apps have settings (that are somehow not on by default) to hide read posts and mark posts read on scroll, but I haven’t tried an app where that works every time.

5. There’s no “main” app. Think about Reddit before the API fees. There used to be a default app. It had its issues, but most features worked out of the box, and most things were intuitive and normie-friendly. You could use that to get comfortable with the social network itself, and then eventually try other apps when something got too annoying.

   Compare that with Lemmy. You want to try it, and you already have to deal with choice paralysis. A ton of apps on the website, with utterly unhelpful descriptions (“an open-source Lemmy client developed by so-and-so”; wow, exactly zero of those words help me pick) and a random order that doesn’t even let me default to one most popular one.

   Quite a few apps focus on niche UI features like swipe-based navigation while still not having the basics down right. I’m several months into having joined Lemmy and I still haven’t found an app that feels somewhat right. That is a challenge not one of the other social networks has managed. Congrats, Lemmy. Impressive.

6. Picking a server and signing up in general is complicated. And it’s an impactful decision that you have NO tools to make so early, unless you start researching like it’s school homework.

   .world? That’s popular but you’ll be judged for having joined it, plus you lose access to the piracy community. .ml? Hope you like communists and DRAMA. And if you get it wrong, there’s no intuitive and easy way to migrate. You clunkily export your settings and re-import them; the servers will NOT talk to each other. And even then you lose some stuff.

   This UX issue is tough. I don’t have an easy solution. But I’m sure a UX expert could find one.

7. Manual validation of your sign-up by a human. What is this, a Facebook group? If you introduce a 24-hour delay so early in the process, of course people are going to fall off.

8. The mouse logo is kinda ugly, won’t lie. I’m sure it’s a more potent people repellent than you think.

9. There is a LOT of tribalism. On Reddit, there’s r/Canada, that’s full of convinced conservatives that won’t hesitate to artificially skew the discourse. And there’s r/OnGuardForThee, basically the same but with progressives angry at the conservatives.

   On Lemmy, that feels like the rule, not the exception. I just joined communities based on my interests, and my feed is full of communist vs communist vs non-communist drama. Can we frickin’ chill?

   If I need to start filtering out whole fields of interest that were taken over, joining less popular community clones or literally defederating instances to get a good experience, we’ve got it wrong. Normal people don’t wanna do that when they literally just got here. They’ll just leave.

10. Somehow even more US-centric than Reddit. So… Much… American politics.

Oh I could likely see the difference. But if there’s a significant impact on battery life, I would probably be just fine with the lower resolution.

It would suck if the touchscreen option were only available with a 4K resolution because of that.

Touchscreen? Great!

UHD though? In such a small form factor, it sounds like a needless battery drain. Or are there use cases I’m missing?

That’s good and all but man is that person a big fan of aria properties.

To be clear, they’re not bad, but they’re a little brute-forcey. There’s often a way to achieve the same purpose without them.

For instance, instead of aria-pressed with buttons, you can just use radio buttons and labels. And your can just put heading elements in your sections instead of naming them with aria properties.

I choose to read that headline as “woe upon us; whales may now swim at an unlimited speed”. Funny to imagine.

I’m gonna be honest, if they used a feature that wasn’t ready for prime time, it’s still on them.

I’m trying to avoid Chromium clones altogether. I really don’t like the engine quasi-monopoly we have and I don’t want to participate in furthering it.

It’s not in Firefox mobile.

Sure, I could probably find the URLs to add it in at a new custom search engine. But if you’re gonna make such a bombastic announcement, I expect you to have the update ready beforehand.

Do they not realize that mobile is most Web traffic nowadays?

Hey, if it consoles you, three quarters of our pure back-end C# developers are as you describe, too.

All the full-stack devs I’ve worked with so far were just back-end developers who write terrible front-end code.

Hmm, I follow the package’s readme and only get invalid command errors.

Gotta install the pip dependencies.

Oh but first you need to create a venv or everything will be global. Why isn’t that local by default like with npm? Hell if I know!

Ah but before that I need to install the RIGHT version of Python. The one I already have likely won’t do. And that takes AGES.

Oh but even then still just tells me the command is invalid. Ah, great, I live CLIs. Now I’ve gotta figure out PATH variables again and add python there. Also pip maybe?

Now I can follow the readme’s instructions! Assuming I remember to manually open the venv first.

But it only gives me errors about missing pieces. Ugh. But I thought I installed the pip dependencies!

Oh, but turns out there’s something about a text file full of another different set of dependencies that I need to explicitly mention via CLI or they won’t be installed. And the readme didn’t mention that, because that’s apparently “obvious”. No it’s not; I’m just a front-end developer trying to run the darn thing.

Okay. Now it runs. Finally. But there’s a weird error. There might be something wrong with my .env file. Maybe if I add a print statement to debug… Why isn’t it showing up?

Oooh, I need to fully rebuild if I want it to show up, and the hot reload functionality that you can pass a command line argument for doesn’t work… Cool cool cool cool.