Piefed has code to explicitly fuck over Sxan or what’s their name, by replacing the thorn character with ‘th’. Meaning you can’t properly cite Old English, Old Norse, or modern Icelandic on Piefed. But of course, “Lemmy is the authoritarian communist platform”.
Piefed’s code also reeks of a recent college graduate, being a stream of consciousness with almost no comments. Meanwhile the most known, and seemingly most active dev claims twenty-five years of experience, making one wonder if they learned anything in that time (or if they count from when they’ve typed up some Logo at three years old).
They did roll this back after people got annoyed with the change. The fact that it was added at all though is very silly! Why should it matter to the project maintainer what some user is doing? Why build a community on a platform that is going to inject such a wildly silly opinion on you? If you don’t think EM Dashes are an issue, you have no choice but to be endlessly pinged every time an EM Dash is detected by the system if you’re a community admin.
Ok. But other people can think about their doings in advance and foresee the consequences. Piefed’s development is not how a mature person with ‘twenty-five years of experience’ makes open-source software.
Piefed has code to explicitly fuck over Sxan or what’s their name, by replacing the thorn character with ‘th’. Meaning you can’t properly cite Old English, Old Norse, or modern Icelandic on Piefed. But of course, “Lemmy is the authoritarian communist platform”.
Piefed’s code also reeks of a recent college graduate, being a stream of consciousness with almost no comments. Meanwhile the most known, and seemingly most active dev claims twenty-five years of experience, making one wonder if they learned anything in that time (or if they count from when they’ve typed up some Logo at three years old).
They did roll this back after people got annoyed with the change. The fact that it was added at all though is very silly! Why should it matter to the project maintainer what some user is doing? Why build a community on a platform that is going to inject such a wildly silly opinion on you? If you don’t think EM Dashes are an issue, you have no choice but to be endlessly pinged every time an EM Dash is detected by the system if you’re a community admin.
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Ok. But other people can think about their doings in advance and foresee the consequences. Piefed’s development is not how a mature person with ‘twenty-five years of experience’ makes open-source software.
Lemmy recently removed a feature using lemmy.ml as a source of truth for federated communities: https://lemmy.ml/comment/23400094
All Fediverse developers make mistakes.
That feature was part of the development version, and never meant to be included in any official release.