It got stalled for awhile due to butting heads with a contributor who wanted to take the app in a direction that me and dessalines fundamentally disagreed with. At several points we overwrote each others’ changes in PRs. After having a PR that got held up for months due to these arguments, dessalines and I decided to keep moving forward without waiting for his input. After spending some time setting up an end to end testing framework, I’m now moving at a noticeably faster pace. Compare the difference in time between the PR being opened and it being merged from the argument filled PR listed earlier and the most recent feature PR.

Yes.

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Of course dot world whips up a red scare over the dev team the day before we release the next version of Lemmy.

My question is, how are you determining what is or isn’t propaganda being put forth by the media companies and articles you are presenting?

It’s all propaganda. The term itself means pushing an agenda by propagating information. Separating fact from fiction requires following the sources any given outlet uses to support their claims. Part of the reason so many communists distrust western mainstream media so much is due to shady sourcing. A recurring issue, for example, is relying on anonymous (i.e. unverifiable) sources.

Another thing to consider when looking at this stuff is cui bono: who benefits? While a source pushing an agenda isn’t necessarily presenting false information, they are inclined to frame facts in a way that fits their narrative. Which facts do they include and which do they leave out? Which facts do they emphasize and which do they minimize?

The usual narrative here in burgerland is that the CCP suppresses information about the incident entirely. The fact that their state media made a whole documentary about it, conflict of interest or not, is already enough to debunk the common western narrative about the event.

She was fired from Newsmax in 2022, after being suspended by twitter, for serious effort tweeting that the COVID vaccine was a plot by bill gates to do Mark of the Beast-style satanism by implanting bio-luminescent (Luciferase) trackers in people.

The sad part is that’s not even the most batshit theory I’ve heard about the vaccine. I have an acquaitance who believes “the jab” turns people into nephilim.

Are you talking about the Foxconn factory with the suicide nets in Taiwan (which I predict you consider an independent country from the mainland)?

You can write garbage code in rust, but the compiler will beat you with a stick for doing so.

I didn’t say otherwise. If anything, considering it’s 4chan we’re talking about, I expect it to be malicious.

The only PII the software itself stores are usernames, bcrypt hashes of passwords, JWT session tokens and, if the admin requires it or the user gives it voluntarily, emails. With this in mind, there are still important caveats to keep in mind.

First, there is no way to verify if a given instance is running a fork that collects more information than the upstream repo, not to mention any logging they might be doing. This is where Lemmy being self-hostable is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, if you have the sysadmin knowhow or know someone trustworthy who does, you can setup your own instance that you can be certain doesn’t collect any data you don’t expect it to. On the other hand, there is no way to prevent malicious actors from making compromised instances.

The other important caveat is that all posts and comments are public. Personal information you post in posts and comments can be used to identify you. This is true of all social media, even ones that don’t use usernames such as 4chan and similar chan-like image boards. No amount of software related privacy features can save you from bad opsec.

Opened an issue for you.

We’re waiting for Forgejo to support federation. We definitely want to move away from github, but we want to wait until we’re in a position for that move to be permanent while still making it easy for contributors to open issues and PRs.

Speaking as a FOSS maintainer, typos should be trivial to fix as long as it’s in a language the devs are fluent in. The kind of up front work you mentioned putting in to your tickets is practically the platonic ideal of a good issue.

Speaking also as a corpo codemonkey (like the people at Bethesda), management and product consistently — through short-sighted hair-brained schemes and giving zero shits about what actually goes into making a software product — raise a shit ton of barriers to getting even simple things done. This leaves little choice but to make quick but shoddy ways of implementing features to meet the deadline, which in turn creates tech-debt which is itself a barrier.

I could understand the “just make a pull request, bro” response if someone comes in demanding a vaguely defined feature that seemingly no one else has expressed interest in. We’ve used that answer several times for issues raised for Lemmy. In your case though, the response seems unwarranted.

Glad to see you resolved your issue. I’ll be the first to admit that the UX around languages is unintuitive and janky at the moment.

Your account is on lemmy.ml, which had some downtime the other day to test a beta version of the 0.19.4 release. Unfortunately, there were major performance issues and the admins had to revert to the old version and go back to a backup of the database from before the upgrade.

While I can’t guarantee that’s the cause of your issue, it would explain why users from other instances aren’t having the same problem.

Edit: here’s some more context.

A PR fixing this issue is already merged in the main branch: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4503.

It will be in the 0.19.4 release.