Like why does a communication app need to take up 1GB of my RAM??? Look at telegram desktop for example. It’s written in QT and it has a very low RAM usage.
the most infuriating aspect of electron, is is that multi-billion (and even multi-trillion) dollar corporations think it’s ok practice to release desktop clients using electron, like wtf, each one of them can hire ten teams to build ten completely new desktop toolkits, let alone just design their applications to use native system tools 🤷♀️🤦♀️
Oh yeah, most of the time are just webapps presented as a full app in a store. There are good apps out there, but most of what you find are a waste of time, space, and resources.
I’m excited about Lemmy, looks like a really nice project. It has a pretty good interface, which is an absolute must for alternatives such as this to even have a remote chance of success. Also curious to see how federation will perform. Finally, lemmur is cool, but it runs awfully bad on my phone, but so do all Flutter apps. Scrolling is hyper sluggish, animations are not fluid, buttons have input delay, etc. It’s a shame, because the app looks and works well otherwise. There’s certainly work to do in UI/UX (I’m in love with Slide for reddit lol) but it has come a long way already.
Big congrats to all involved! I might chip in some translations when I get some time.
Holup is there a WhatsApp for non android? If so where do i find it? because then it would actually be possible for me to use as i need WhatsApp for work.
We give them our main milestones, what we hope to accomplish in the way of federation and features, and pay per milestone completed. NLNet is focused on lemmy’s codebase, not this or any other instance. They’re a really wonderful organization, and the projects they support speaks for itself as to their positive influence on open source: nlnet.nl/project/current.html
Yeah, I was browsing their project list and was impressed by all the cool stuff they’re involved with. Did they start what now is Lemmy or did you reach out to them with your idea?
Is nice to know lemmy’s history but the problem is:
who defines what is bigotry and what is not?
when a post si too comunist/libertarian/left/right… to be alowed?
The best of federates soclal network for me is that you can be in touch with you want to and be far away from those you don’t want, but without the need to ask for your opposing group to be silenced, that just make the convivence online more pleasing
That is why I love the fediverse in general! But when nutomic talks about the ex redditors from r/GenderCritical says
“Many reddit alternatives have been happy to embrace “reddits rejects”, no matter how bigoted those communities are, in the name of “free speech”. We don’t agree with this view, or with those who have nostalgia for a non-existent reddit past where it was more “free” and bigoted than it is now.”
Is he talking about the instance in particular or refearing to lemmy in general? Maybe I misunderstood that
The answers were all written by dessalines. The definition of “to embrace” in this context is “to take up especially readily or gladly”. Our position on that wont change and also applies to Lemmy in general. But realistically there is not much we can do to prevent anyone from using Lemmy, as its open source.
So, you mean that don’t “gladly recieve” that kind of user but you don’t ban them from using lemmy from their own instance, and even of you wantted to, you can’t.
That sound really healthy in a broad sense , I mean for everyone even of it sound counterintuitive. For a moment I thought you can ban people from using Lemmy in general (not only from using your instance).
I think that FOSS in general has a good chance in the long run, and non-algoritmic feeds probably will help so low down the polarization or at least won’t make ot wors (I hope).
Correct. Lemmy and most other fediverse software are licensed under AGPL, which states among other things that anyone can use the software for any purpose. Obviously its in much more complicated, legal terms. We can only set the rules on lemmy.ml and other spaces we control (eg github issues, joinlemmy site).
For example, there was a lot of drama about Gab, but no one could prevent them from using the Mastodon code (at least not in legal terms).
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