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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • I’ve been enjoying my time on Beehaw and Lemmy at large. I’m astounded that removed content isn’t also marked for removal on other instances. That moderators have to duplicate each others efforts is actually nuts. That opens up every Lemmy instance to an insane risk of abuse.

    I will stick around to see whats next for Beehaw. I have to say though, the reason I enjoy Lemmy specifically is that it is so much more readable than Twitter or traditional forums ever were. The nested structure of comments is not something I’ll easily give up.



  • I think you may be missing the concept of ‘hydration’. A server side rendered app will deliver the pre rendered markup so that the client has something to immediately display while the framework continues to bootstrap in the background. It makes for much quicker and more efficient first loads, or ‘time to first paint’. A SSR website will still be a CSR website after hydration completes.

    In addition, many web crawlers are unable to execute JavaScript. So for many single page applications, or CSR as you call them, they appear as a blank screen to less sophisticated crawlers because the content is never loaded. This is an catastrophe for things like SEO. SSR fixes this issue by delivering the content without regard to JS execution for the initial load.



  • I agree. Sometimes its easy to forget that these online celebrities are people. Linus is a person, as flawed as any of us. He let his ego get in his own way, and took sharp criticism of his company as personal attacks - which is an obviously easy thing to do. The important thing to look at is whether or not LMG / he learns from this, which I’m sure they will.

    The only truly concerning thing to me is the Maddison stuff. That I’m reserving my judgment for. I don’t doubt her account of things, but it’s simply one side to a story. That she self harmed to get a day off is very worrying, but it’s also a massive red flag. That is a pretty extreme escalation. Clearly she wasn’t stable, but did LMG cause the instability or just contribute to it? Either wouldn’t be ok, but she was a person acting abnormally - and that’s a lens that deserves extra consideration.

    I don’t intend to stop watching LMG for the time being, and I’ll withhold my judgment for now.


  • I’m very happy for you. Stories like yours helped motivate me to do similar. I’ve semi-recently come out to a few friends of mine that I’m bi / pan, but still only have one foot outside the closet. I did it for no particular reason other than to see what it felt like to be open about it for once. I’m glad I did. It felt like taking a gasp of fresh air after holding my breath for far too long. While it wasn’t a life changing moment for me like it has been for others, self-acceptance has dramatically eased my emotional stress, and I hope we can encourage more to do the same.





  • Loving it. I’m an old redditor, and was on the site for at least 13 years if not longer. Lemmy feels like how Reddit was when I first found it. Quirky and friendly. It’s much slower paced of course, like Reddit was at first, but that too will change with time.

    My favorite part of Lemmy is the philosphy of the fediverse. That Lemmy can’t be controlled by share holders or corporate interests is incredible! This is the first time where I can take a step back and say that yes, this is what social(ist) media should be. Entirely democratic and in control of the users. We’re not beholden to advertisers, or the whims of oligarchs like Zuckerberg and Musk. I was skeptical at first, but I’m completely sold now.