[-] mark@programming.dev 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A centralized frontend and a decentralized backend seems great in theory, but I'm not quite sure that's even possible without some one or some group owning the centralized frontend. And if one single entity controls the frontend, it defeats the purpose of decentralization. We want to avoid any one person or group owning the flow of our communication.

[-] mark@programming.dev 16 points 2 months ago

AKA "Trump roast" 😄

[-] mark@programming.dev 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You shouldn't wait because it's going to happen. I moved all of my projects off of Github and Gitlab, and now self-hosting my own gitea instance. It's been great and never looked back!

[-] mark@programming.dev 26 points 3 months ago

I never really understood how cross posting works here. You mind telling us the benefits? Does it consolidate all of the discussions in each cross post into one big long thread? 🤔

[-] mark@programming.dev 15 points 5 months ago

Speaking of, does anyone know how best to block YouTube ads on my Sony TV? It uses Android and I have the YT app on it.

[-] mark@programming.dev 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It will be fixed. It's gov. So baby steps. The EU is working hard and it's going to be a while before we get everything we want.

[-] mark@programming.dev 24 points 8 months ago

Hey OP, I'm doing some research. You mind sharing that link in the description of your screenshot?

[-] mark@programming.dev 24 points 9 months ago

Yeah but note by "public" they really mean "if the post doesn't require you to login". They recently implemented a feature that lets users choose for their posts to be "public" but still require a login to see it.

[-] mark@programming.dev 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I feel the same way about RSS feeds. It's a technology meant to keep up with updates on nearly anything across the internet. Even social media sites. It's been available for ages. But no one is pushing for sites to provide them. 🤷‍♂️

[-] mark@programming.dev 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

you could easily keep your identity across multiple forums and see the content from all your communities on one page

RSS feeds have provided this experience for years. The problem is that a lot of sites stopped serving RSS feeds for their content. But sites like rss.app and openrss can be used to get RSS feeds for sites that don't have them.

[-] mark@programming.dev 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What do you think of this?

Think it's a terrible idea. For some reason people dont get that many of us are on the fediverse because we want to get as far away from anything that even remotely resembles, copies, piggybacks off of, or otherwise has anything to do with corporate-owned, centralized, ad-infested, user-hostile, privacy-invasive, social media platforms.

[-] mark@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I like RoR but "Ruby on Rails" and "modern" in the same sentence seems kind of funny.

But then again, "modern" is subjective in itself and most of the websites I see these days (even built and maintained by large companies) seem pretty ancient.

No semantic HTML, still using divs everywhere, no accessibility, all these useless third-party dependencies and lockins vs the new APIs being introduced natively in the browser every day, ajax, jquery instead of using the web platform, hell-- most web developers don't even know what a dialog element is.

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