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Hello world!

We would like to start by saying thank you ❀, no really πŸ™ THANK YOU to ALL the moderators out there!

Without you folks, we would have no one to help keep our community safe and help build the communities both here on Lemmy.World and on other fine instances. To this end, we want to make sure your voices are heard πŸ“£ loud and clearπŸ“£.

So, in the spirit of transparency, we would like everyone to know that we are looking to help out the folks working on Sublinks. Over the last several months we have grown to be more than just Lemmy.World. We've added platforms such as Pixelfed and Sharkey to help offer our users more diverse options for expressing themselves online. We still are very committed to Mastodon as well.

We DO NOT plan on moving away from Lemmy as a software platform at this time. Any changes in our core services would need to be discussed extensively internally AND externally with our community members. We firmly believe in the growth of the Fediverse and without the users, there would only be software, and that's no fun!

Sooo...

The Sublinks team has written up a little survey, which we feel is both thorough and inclusive. It covers a wide range of topics, such as user privacy, and community engagement, along with trying to gauge things that are difficult when moderating.

Also please be aware the information collected by this survey is completely anonymous. As many of us in the social sciences background know, if you want the REAL feelings of individuals, they need to feel safe to express themselves.

πŸ‘‰Moderation Survey HEREπŸ‘ˆ

Please feel free to comment in this thread, we will do our best to respond to any genuine questions.

We look forward to hearing from each and every one of you!

=Sincerely,
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PS ... also if this sounds like a corporate press release to you folks, we still punk 🀘😜🀘

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

PS … also if this sounds like a corporate press release to you folks, we still punk 🀘😜🀘

"YES FELLOW KIDS, WE ARE ALSO, HOW YOU SAY, STILL DOWN WITH "IT" "

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If I'm looking to build skills in a new language, that language is probably going to be Rust and not Java. One of those languages has a bright future. The other is going to look a lot like Fortran in 15 years.

I expect real performance issues with Java at some point, especially compared to Rust. The initial difficulty in picking up the language is worth it if I never have to see another Factory pattern that only returns one type. Why just use a constructor when you can use ~~idiopathic~~ idiomatic java?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We chose that, as we already saw the things that can be done wrongly with rust. And no one of the sublinks team can do rust really, so it was just a matter of what languages can be learned faster and/or have already good knowledge about a programming language.

If you really want performance, please write your code in binary, then you have no compiler, no runtime just plain binary code, it will be fast but unreadable ( like rust if wrongly done ). Java is just a good old and known programming language. There are already some techniques to improve performance and / or cluster your application up. With an load balancers. Something like lemmy tried, but a little bit easier and extendable.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

way to tell devs to fuck off and stop complaining. ngl I'm interested in this space, know java well, and still was immediately turned off by Java. SPRING BOOT no less. does your internal team work with anybody that has experience in building TEAMS and not just software? if you did, you guys should know what devs want and it's NOT writing java sb for free. this is a bad take, especially coming from an engineering leader.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

We have a bigger main developers team tham just 2 guys. Everybody has their favorite language. Its a gopd take especially in tge statistics.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I literally just got permanently banned from reddit because I criticized some mods who mass reported it as "harassment". I'm looking for reddit alternatives and found this. Please tell me the mods here are respectful civil and levelheaded?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We DO NOT plan on moving away from Lemmy as a software platform at this time.

Well that is concerning.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is it?

I was under the impression that Sublinks was basically a drop-in replacement for the backend of Lemmy, just with better mod tools. If Lemmy.world switched to it, would normal users (not mods) even notice or care?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

From what I can tell, it's more worrying that .world is trying to essentially build up a new site like Mbin, from the ground up, in Java, rather than just working to make Lemmy better. It appears to be a severely underestimated workload for no benefit whatsoever, other than "better" mod tools, which could be folded into Lemmy either way.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I agree reimplementing the protocol in Java instead of Rust seems like a downgrade. ~~I think part of the reason for Sublinks is creative differences with @Dessalines~~, but even if the problem is getting upstream acceptance for patches (edit: and it isn't) it seems more efficient to fork the existing code than to start from scratch.

But it's their time to waste, so whatever. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Edit: I stand corrected.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

We have never rejected any patches from lemmy.world admins or from sublinks developers.