Hot take: the web should not be more human.
And I’m pretty progressive on technological matters. There should still be a clear separation, though.
Hot take: the web should not be more human.
And I’m pretty progressive on technological matters. There should still be a clear separation, though.
In a few words, I’m reiterating the point that a professional software developer =/= professional cyber security expert. Yes, I know that I should, for example, implement auth; but I’m not writing the auth process. I’m just gonna use a library.
No one’s saying to ignore it.
If I own and run a sandwich shop, I don’t need to be on the farm picking and processing the wheat to make the flour that goes into my bread. I could do that, but then I’d be a farmer, a miller, and a sandwich maker. All I need to know is that I have good quality flour or bread so that I can make damn good sandwiches.
It’s a cool experiment, but:
Over time, the negative feedback from these misfires has trained me to type more slowly and thoughtfully, burdening my mind with uncertainty that impedes my natural typing rhythm and unconscious flow of thoughts onto the computer screen.
I get using the modifiers as a potential accessibility solution. But if you’re otherwise able to type on the keyboard just fine, this is easily counterproductive.
In my opinion, any button in terms of graphical UI design simply dispatches an action with no arguments regarding state. There doesn’t exist a dichotomy between a “toggle” mechanic and a “standard” button as far as the button itself is concerned.
Whether or not you want to update the visual representation of that button is a separate concern.
You aren’t alone. I stopped posting to Reddit in the protest and haven’t posted/voted since, but old threads are just too useful to completely block it out.
The thing is, though, my Reddit usage from Google Search hasn’t replaced what used to be my time browsing Reddit. I now exclusively use it for informational old threads via Google Search.
If before API terms changes I spent 7 hours a week on Reddit, and let’s say 5% of that was needing Google search results from Reddit specifically and the other 95% of usage was scrolling through my Reddit front page; I am not now spending 7 hours on Reddit via Google search. I’m now only using that 5% of 7 hours/week = 21 minutes/week on Reddit, and maybe even less considering my newfound aversion to the website.
And I suspect that most of the people who stopped using Reddit after the changes—whether by lapse or by principle—are not gonna come crawling back to it if Reddit chooses to sever that tenuous metaphoric link.
Edit: clarified a subject
If Lemmy gets as popular as reddit
You do realize how big of an if this is? Even for Lemmy to reach a fraction of Reddit’s popularity. I want it to happen as much as you do, but let’s be real here.
The Fediverse is still a pretty big experiment. The first thing I thought when I saw that Ultra lifetime price was if Lemmy would even still be as relevant as it is today (which isn’t that high of a bar, mind you) in 5.5 years—the amount of time it would take for the lifetime purchase to pay off as a better deal than the yearly subscription.
Not only that, but it truly is a front end for Lemmy; not the service itself. I get that the dev has bills to pay and I guess that this is their only hustle (?), but $100 is a bit of an unreasonable ask in my opinion. If I were rich, I’d buy it. But I’m not, so there you go.
Not that anyone should care, but personally I’m waiting to see what Boost does, as that was what I used back in Reddit.
Nice! I’m liking the UI organization.
I recently got on
git add -p
, which comes in clutch sometimes. But yeah, I’m definitely about to start doing the interactive add.Also, squints at your username