And 28 isn’t old enough to occupy “most devs”.

It’s not an issue if age, it’s an issue of reading comprehension

Ah, you’re one of the Linux gatekeepers. You’re not worth bothering with anymore. Tah tah

Unfortunately, a lot of dev studios tend to just build their games on the highest end systems they can and don’t bother checking for lower-end hardware. For a lot of systems, there’s plenty of programs that don’t run “good enough”. And sometimes I’ll even have issies with M$ applications on decent workstation hardware. Notes and Teams are frustratingly slow to work with sometimes

I’m trying boss, but there’s stuff I need to manually get sorted out before the big switch and I don’t have a lot of time & energy to spare. I’m getting close though

First thing i thought of, but yeah, most devs today have never held a disk like that.

Bruh, what? Younger millennials (aka 30-40 yo) were born/raised in the 90’s. I find your claim hard to believe.

I’m in that group and I still dealt with floppies as a kid despite my family being poor at the time

Tbf, there’s saves there that efficiency increase means a lot

Technically true, but there’s a threshold on responsiveness. If both user interfaces respond in milliseconds, it doesn’t matter if one is more efficient

unoptimized code that does complex stuff.

You can still have complex code that is optimized for performance. You can spend more resources to do more complex computations and still be optimized so long as you’re not wasting processing power on pointless stuff.

For example, in some of my code I have to get a physics model within 0.001°. I don’t use that step size every loop, because that’d be stupid and wasteful. I start iterating with 1° until it overshoots the target, back off, reduce the step to 1/10, and loop through that logic until I get my result with the desired accuracy.

I love it

Maybe if Windows quit pigging out on tendies and slimmed down it would be as baf

I also choose this guy’s skin suit

I would totally use a search engine called dogdog

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you can’t review what’s running on the actual server, what did your local admin add to it.

You could level that accusation at any software running on a remote server, including the Fediverse

Keep in mind that OP’s project is already based on a different protocol than the Fediverse for their own reasons. Trying to create and maintain a bridge between different protocols might be more work than to just make modifications to posts in the current system.

Other factors are end user experience and branding. Keep in mind that the average Facebook/NextDoor user isn’t tech-savvy, and could also be put off by the weird software names commonly found in the Fediverse

It’s likely worthwhile for OP to look into flohmarkt, but integration might not be the optimal method

Another idea you could potentially add down the line: what about functionality similar to Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace? Those tend to work by helping you focus on your local area as opposed to EBay.

Granted, Craigslist is largely fine imo, I’m just proposing a way to help you kill off Facebook

Reading through your link, it seems like the main difference in your framework is that there’s auto-propogation of federation built in. Please correct me if I missed anything

Unrelated point: before you throw too much time and effort into building up federation, I want to bring something in the Matrix vs. XMPP debate: caching.

Apparently in Matrix, if a user on server A joins a chatroom on server B, then all of the content on the chatroom need to then be copied and synced to server A. There’s 2 primary problems with this: it’s a lot of duplication overhead that can limit scaling of the network and there’s legal consequences for server A caching potentially illegal content. There’s also a privacy concern as this means more parties that can see various interactions.

XMPP gets around these problems by having the user on server A just directly connect with server B, without server A caching anything.

I haven’t dug into too many of the differences myself, but wanted to bring it up in case it helped

Though I will not be using ActivityPub

If you don’t mind my asking, what drove the decision to not base it on ActivityPub? On the surface that seems to be an easier starting point that building evetything out from scratch

I predict that being a hard sell for lemmings.

Eh, if it’s an open-source application where you can review the code to confirm that the software isn’t tracking you, then it’s not an issue. Especially if you’re running Graphene OS, Rethink DNS, or Exodus to either sandbox or monitor your traffic

I thought that was the only protocol that currently allows for federation. Are there others? Or other ways?

The Matrix and XMPP protocols both support federation, though those are mainly for chat platforms