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Because Lemmy is usually marketed as the Fediverse alternative to Reddit, not as a communist platform.
Because Lemmy is usually marketed as the Fediverse alternative to Reddit, not as a communist platform.
They said “the official version”.
As the OP said, there are FOSS hosted forges. You don’t need to self-host.
With SourceHut, other people can submit patches by e-mail, no need to create an account.
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Not if the language is standardized from the start.
An alternative would be a language with a simpler syntax. Something like XML, but less verbose.
Have you read the CommonMark specification? It’s very complex for a language that’s supposed to be lightweight.
Markdown is terrible as a standard because every parser works differently and when you try to standardize it (CommonMark, etc.), you find out that there are a bajillion edge cases, leading to an extremely bloated specification.
All you need to know to get upvotes on Lemmy is “left good, right bad”.
Because until the Middle Ages, Europeans were afraid of the number 0.
If year 1 is the 1st year, then surely the first year of the 21st century should be 2001?
It is. The system is confusing.
And if you have any nuanced opinion on anything, you get called an enlightened centrist who only wants half a genocide.
OP, please ignore this garbage take.
How else would you install something that doesn’t happen to be in your favorite package manager?
As opposed to cloning a random repository and running make
or something?
The ability to choose what platform to use seems closer to the principle of voluntary exchange than to authoritatianism.