Cochise @cochise@pesso.al

So 2021 webdesign is all about
- HUUUUGE fonts
- the same cookie joke everywhere
- annoying mouse cursor hijacking
- scroll hijacking, again
- text moving around while you scroll
I feel like all the webagencies have those now.

@hhardy01 @redecentralize @tomasino regulation is necessary.

The problem with social media is that it pretends to be both media, and infrastructure. Because "it's media" people are afraid to regulate it, since that would affect all media.

Because "it's infrastructure" it gets to pretend it's "neutral", when it is anything but.

We need regulation to make social media into a standardized environment, which will give us the actual neutral infrastructure. And then treat social media like media.

Cryptocurrency in Signal..

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713827

Pff.. 🤐

If you have a github account and you're interested in #foss, #activitypub, and #federation, could you be a dear and go star/fave my fediverse server project, #gotosocial? The link is here: https://github.com/gotosocial/gotosocial

Normally I don't give a shit about faves and boosts and all that crap, but this project is important to me and I'm looking to set up some kind of Github sponsor thing for it, so stars on the project would be really really appreciated and help visibility!

Boosts welcome. Thank you! ❤️

KDE: "On the reappointment of Richard Stallman as a director of the Free Software Foundation"

This sets the right tone. Proud of KDE.

https://ev.kde.org/2021/03/24/on-the-reappointment-of-rms-fsf/

FediDB is now live!

https://fedidb.org

#fediDB #activityPub #developers #fediverse

#Tusky has been removed from the PlayStore by Google

I saw a guy on StackOverflow going like "WTF why would you go through 100x more effort to not use JSX instead of spending 5 mins setting up <large tool chain>".

Because of the stiff learning curve, every solution needing a new dependency or directory-watching transpilation tool, unbounded dependencies, increasing distance from the bare web. At least d3 managed to work with "raw js" without all this crap and not needing a new special language.

I hate frontend web development. With some of my time temporarily away from ActivityPub stuff, I've been trying to learn React. Of course the tutorial doesn't work out of the box with my stick-to-as-few-deps-as-possible. Trying to use JSX requires babel which seems to require non-standard "exports" or "requires" words which means using webpack or $OTHER which means installing and running and learning about other tools.

#signal server is now officially closed source, making it de facto a worse-looking telegram.

https://lemmy.ml/post/55595

Statement on Politics of Lemmy.ml

https://lemmy.ml/post/55143