Readit NewsAnd you haven't noticed this is EXACTLY how HN operates too? Oh the ignorance is strong in this one.
There's plenty of Reddit forks. Lemmy is a fork by the fediverse people that looks pretty much the same as the old Reddit.
The problem isn't the software, it's attracting and retaining a community. It's the same exact problem you have with Twitter: when the shenanigans started, people created five competing forks, fracturing the user base of people willing to migrate. And now, most of them are back to Twitter, because that's where the action is.
Reddit did a lot of things that riled up a minority of users (API changes, the "new Reddit" redesign, etc), but they'd need to upset a majority for the platform to crumble. And I bet this won't happen here; no way they'd allow of the "top 50" subreddits, like /r/aww, to enable paywalls.
The counterargument is "eventually you'll need every facility provided by a programming language, so just start with a programming language."
I'm not sure how I feel about it. The YAML templating situation in Kubernetes is a [shit show][1]. Then again, I did once cave into the temptation of writing a [lisp-like XML preprocessor][2] to make my configurations less verbose. It doesn't have any access to the environment, though, so it's not a general purpose configuration language, just a shorthand for static XML.
And yes, I have very bad memories of Kubernetes YAML, also YAML itself.
And if you install from the website it doesn’t override the path. So will still be using the Apple or Homebrew one.
But I could've sworn the python.org installer set the PATH. If not, that's kinda annoying.
In the beginning this was with Scala and every single one struggled with SBT.
Giving developers unlimited flexibility in how they create build files is a bad idea.
https://www.devjobsscanner.com/blog/top-8-most-demanded-prog...
Scala is only in 0.5% of the scanned job offerings, and is far far behind the major languages in numbers, but I was surprised there's more demand than Rust or even Perl to be honest.
Nothing against Python, but of all the reasons to choose a technology, whatever is more represented on the dataset of some LLM is the worst reason.
This is a death spiral. There's no hope for the future of this industry if newcomers are thinking like this.
No they don’t. Just like everyone doesn’t know Cobol, Fortran, Scala etc.
But by having a programming language as your build tool you now make it harder for new people to onboard. As in order to build project they often need to some unique, specific to the language syntax. And in order to find this syntax they look around on Github and because it’s a programming language every project has their own unique, specific to the project approach.
Versus something like Cargo.toml where it’s simple and consistent regardless of which project you look at.
Blockchain is “great” for distributed data. How many people do you know would want to run a node that hosts a few TB of data and requires equally copious amounts of bandwidth?
If you meant that you think we should have federated services that interact with each other using an open protocol, I’ve got great news for you! Mastodon uses ActivityPub to federate and is a Twitter replacement. Lemmy and KBin both implement ActivityPub as well and are more geared towards forum-style use like Reddit.
Regardless of the underlying technology that’s chosen, I think the real issue is that everything ends up being centralised. That gives individuals/companies too much power. If every community has its own subreddit, then each reddit policy change is going to offend/infuriate some part of the user base.
If a community forum decides they want to ban $content, it only affects that community and nobody else cares.
Every forum doesn’t need to be connected with everything else. There’s very little benefit from a scuba diving forum to see posts about tennis or sneakers. The only reason Reddit is popular is because instead of having aggregating clients that show a bunch of different topics from different interest groups, we let the servers be the aggregators.
I guess what I’m describing is usenet, where your usenet client just shows you the things you were subscribed to. Gah I’m old.
So a blockchain forum is doable in a similar way as NFTs. Would require caching on the read side, and unless your users are posting important enough stuff to warrant high xact fees, off-chain write batching.
The real obstacle is that like NFTs, it'd be solving a mostly theoretical problem. Barely anyone cares that a forum is owned by someone, and you need a ton of users to gain traction.