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  • What an absolutely braindead reply.

    Mastodon had a bad experience for that person.
    Blue sky didn’t.
    Their experience wasn’t unique.
    End of story.

    You’re doing mental gymnastics to misinterpret their argument. Nobody said they want centralized social media you absolute lemon. They want a user experience that doesn’t suck. Right now, blue sky provides that while mastodon doesn’t.

    “Oh but bsky’s federation doesn’t solve Mastodon’s problem” they don’t have to solve Mastodon’s problem.

    Elitist neckbeards like you are the reason the fediverse isn’t fun.






  • See this is part of the problem.

    Dude was like “look at this objectively terrible experience I actually had”
    And you are like “yeah well that could happen to bsky in theory too, so they’re just as bad!”

    I’ve been a mastodon user for almost 2 years, but I never use it because finding interesting people to subscribe to who are actually active is difficult.
    I haven’t been using bsky because I’ve really been hoping mastodon takes off, but whenever I hear about how easy it is to onboard and find interesting content, I think about switching.



  • I said it was better, just not much better.

    The maintenance costs of equals is nearly zero. Scrolling over boilerplate seems like a real stretch, like saying a novel with a picture every chapter is harder to read.

    I like that you can’t accidentally forget to update it, which is kinda nice but is rarely a concern.
    And it’s a bit more readable, which is nice.
    It’s better, but folks are talking like it’s Super Jesus and I think it’s more like finding a dollar in the parking lot.





  • Lots of edgelords here like “I don’t want the reddit plebs here” as though they weren’t happily one of them a couple years ago.

    Let them come over. Put the idea of federation to the test. Isn’t that one of the major features of federation, if there are a bunch of shitty people you can just defederate or use a different community?
    If federation does what it claims then it’ll only be an improvement.

    I agree with people saying not to force people here if they don’t wanna be (not that we could), but the people saying that folks still on reddit are there because they inherently prefer the reddit application UX is crazy. They prefer the content in reddit. And they have a point.

    Folks here are way more insufferable than reddit. Just the other day there was a post being like “why do reddit users hate Lemmy?” And linked a reddit post about it. But the comments on the reddit post were considered, nuanced, and polite; while the comments on the Lemmy post were a bunch of neckbeards crying about how terrible reddit users are.

    TLDR y’all need to look in the mirror.

    Edit: typo degenerate → defederate


  • Why did you even bring up AI? IDEs have been able to generate equality functions for decades without AI.

    It’s kinda neat to have this defined directly in the language so that compilers can implement it, but creating equality function is so low effort that this doesn’t really seem like a big deal.

    Like, you define the members in a class, then you tell your IDE to generate getters, constructor, equals, hashcode, etc all in like 5 seconds.
    I like it, it’s nice when the language itself defines reasonable defaults for things, but realistically you’re saving yourself a few seconds of effort.



  • There are so few native desktop apps these days, it’s all on the web.
    And the browser can glean a lot more about user interaction than just web traffic, like where you hover, what parts of the page you’re interacting with, etc.
    That’s why I said that (combined with phone), Google probably knows more.

    But it’s probably a pretty close competition