Yeah, I gotta be honest, it works really poorly here, especially when viewing all/hot. It’s just constantly loading new posts and pushing down and off-screen whatever you’re trying to read or click. It’s frankly unusable.

This type of thing should be a user setting, not a site wide setting, IMO.

Yep, this is exactly what I meant. Just the option to disable auto post loading so you see whatever posts where loaded at the time you initially opened the page. If I want to see new posts, I can hit reload myself.

Well, I’m here, aren’t I?

It should say “fuck reddit” where they join hands.

Forearms. It’s always forearms.

I mourn what it was, yes.

There was a recent comment I read about how it’s become this incredible resource for the most obscure tech and they were reluctant to delete their posts and accounts because they’d receive random messages of thanks years after the post was made.

And it’s true. Reddit has become an invaluable resource for these kinds of things. It was always the community and discussion that made reddit great and they want to turn it into yet another swipebait infested serotonin sponge.

It almost makes me think that when something becomes such an enormous and invaluable public resource, there should be a legal compulsion to archive it before doing anything that will compromise its accessibility.

Particularly in the way that lemmy isn’t finance bro bullshit

Reddit following in their footsteps shortly after

It’s a banana, Michael, what can it cost, $10?

It’ll be like a trainwreck in slow motion

That’s definitely my main concern I have with this federated infrastructure. It’s basically the same as IMAP email: if the server goes down, your account and everything it’s associated with goes down with it.

It’s a neat idea and has some benefits, but there really needs to be some sort of backup system in place. Maybe something like mirror instances, where anyone could spin up an instance with the sole purpose of mirroring another instance in case it goes down.

Except more and more companies are hopping on this gravy train because they can get away with it. At some point (and that point may be now already, depending on the sector), it’s going to be difficult-to-impossible to buy anything without this subscription bullshit.

Anything that doesn’t incur an ongoing cost to provide should be legally prohibited from being sold as a “subscription.”

Except when they clog up hospitals with lung cancer, emphysema and COPD en masse. Now it’s everyone’s problem.

Unless someone can convince them that healthcare is the work of their boogeyman du jour and they should stay home and suffocate like a real man. Then we’re golden. Hey, Fox News, I have an idea for you…

Lemonade being fucking delicious isn’t reason enough?

If the UK calls those biscuits, what do you call savoury bread-like things such as these?

“Spam” reeks of weak horseshit justification for reddit’s actions here. Lots of people x-post all sorts of things all the time. They were itching for a legitimate-sounding reason to ban you and they just reached for the first thing they could find using the loosest possible definition.

These are some issues I’ve been thinking about as well.

What’s to stop someone from impersonating another user on a different instance? Maybe there should be a distributed user index amongst instances to prevent duplicate usernames?

I think making the federalized infrastructure incumbent upon users to understand and select is not something the average user is going to bother with. This is complicated problem, I don’t know the answer might be off the top of my head.

And what happens when an instance goes down? Does every user and their history get torched? Is there a migration process or at least a decommissioning policy in place?