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🤘 Matthew Are you talking about the Local feed? That doesn't solve the problem of trying to have a conversation with people on your instance only to have some troll from shitposter.club or neckbeard.xyz jump in. Mastodon provides public, unlisted, followers-only, and direct--but not local-only, and unlisted isn't an adequate substitute because unlisted toots are still accessible from the open web.
🗨️ Keb Ah yes, I see what you're saying. Although I think that's one of federation's greatest strengths -- I personally have not experienced trolls derailing conversations, but I reckon that can be an issue on any large enough community. Mastodon and Pleroma can definitely find better ways to help isolate users that want to be isolated.
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Miso What's your favorite text editor?
🗨️ Keb Sublime Text 4.
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🤘 Matthew I disagree. Federation is one of the reasons Mastodon/Pleroma are unpleasant; it contributes to context collapse and makes it harder to compartmentalize across forums. If I'm on server X, I don't want to hear from anybody on servers Y and Z (or see their untagged loli porn or alt-reich memes). If I wanted to interact with people on servers Y and Z, I'd create accounts there.
🗨️ Keb Both Mastodon and Pleroma have features to only see content from within your server.
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🏒 Lucian Marin They said the same thing about app distribution. We have both systems: package managers and app stores.
🗨️ Keb I believe people and social networks are vastly different than apps and app stores, respectively.
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🗨️ Keb I am starting to think that any new microblog should have federation support at this point. There's too many social networks; things are too fragmented. It's definitely nice having a small community of likeminded folks, but the paradox is that every community in its early stage wants *more* users until the point where old users reminisce of the good old days when the site had "personality", and then leave to another smaller community.
🏒 Lucian Marin They said the same thing about app distribution. We have both systems: package managers and app stores.
🤘 Matthew I disagree. Federation is one of the reasons Mastodon/Pleroma are unpleasant; it contributes to context collapse and makes it harder to compartmentalize across forums. If I'm on server X, I don't want to hear from anybody on servers Y and Z (or see their untagged loli porn or alt-reich memes). If I wanted to interact with people on servers Y and Z, I'd create accounts there.
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👨‍💻 Matthieu V. Actually using Albert or rofi on Linux (X11) as application launcher, do you have any other recommendation ?
🗨️ Keb I currently use Rofi and love it, but maybe check out ulauncher.io if you're looking for alternatives.
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🗨️ Keb volta.sh this seems really useful so far!
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👨‍💻 Matthieu V. I bookmarked this one that should help you : subreply.com/n4n/jrg
🗨️ Keb This is awesome, thanks. I really wish websites would just give us a switch if they already have a dark mode. Just use localStorage!
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🏒 Lucian Marin Opera has a dark mode switcher. OS switcher should work too.
🗨️ Keb Ah that's lame. I use Firefox, and I prefer the light theme for my OS.
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🗨️ Keb how do i force dark mode on subreply?
🏒 Lucian Marin Opera has a dark mode switcher. OS switcher should work too.
👨‍💻 Matthieu V. I bookmarked this one that should help you : subreply.com/n4n/jrg
🗨️ Keb Anyone have recommended reading on Front-End App Architecture? Preferably not React-specific, but that's fine. I'd like the knowledge to transfer to other frameworks like Mithril, Hyperapp, Svelte, etc.
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🧐 Nrmn Vuejs has excellent documentation and Svelte's documentation is getting better and better each time I'm checking. I'd recommend you to check Svelte first because it's the most different from a technical view.
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🗨️ Keb reading the news is a bigger waste of time than playing video games
🧐 Nrmn Nice, that looks indeed useful for Javascript. I'm planning on checking out ReScript (former buckleScript) and may rewrite some projects over the years end. Let's see!
🗨️ Keb Does ReScript also replace ReasonML? I'm kind of confused by how they play together with OCaml. Looks cool nonetheless.
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🧐 Nrmn Did you find a solution for runtime type checks in your node project?
🗨️ Keb Hey! Thanks for following up. I ended up going with github.com/userpix... for it's tiny size and minimalism. it was also pretty easy to wrap a "validator" function around its methods
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🧐 Nrmn Finally dark mode in Github! About damn time! github.com/setting...
🗨️ Keb Finally, I can retire my custom Sylus CSS
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🧐 Nrmn No recommendations for a runtime package from my side except that I would personally prefer compile time checks instead of putting the load onto the client.
🗨️ Keb Thanks. Likewise, I wouldn't wanna do that client-side either. This is a server-side Node app wherein I'm trying to keep the tooling to a minimum. :) I may adopt TypeScript in the future since it seems that's where the JS-world is headed...
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