Copy/pasting an old comment of mine:

The Luddites were a 19th century guerrilla movement that smashed textile machines, burned factories and threatened their owners. But they were not motivated by a fear of technology […]

the luddites […] were engaged in the most science-fictional exercise imaginable – asking not what a technology does, but who it does it to and who it does it for.

The Luddites, you see, were skilled weavers whose intense physical labor produced the textiles that clothed the nation. The difficulty of their trade – both in terms of esoteric knowledge and physical prowess – allowed them to command high wages and good working conditions.

All that was threatened by the advent of textile machines, which produced more fabric in less time, and required less skill. The owners of textile factories bought these machines with profits derived from the weavers’ labor, and then used those machines to grind down the weavers. Their hours got longer, their pay got shorter, and many of them were maimed or killed by the new machines.

Weaving engines are ingenious and delightful machines. The Luddites had no beef with the machines – their cause was the social relations that governed those machines. By painting Luddites as mere technophobes, we strip ourselves of the ability to learn from history. The lesson of the Industrial Revolution is that merely asking what a machine does and not who it does it for and to can lead to literal genocide.

https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/04/general-ludd/

Frontend?

Their way of doing it honestly makes more sense imo.

I see this the other way around as well.

Aside from the UI being different (I slightly prefer Lemmy’s one) there is a lot of features it has which Lemmy doesn’t.

I don’t see why people call it hard coded when it’s possible to disable. That’s not what hard coded means, it’s just coded.

It lets you browse all the comments for cross posts on the same page.

Extra piefed features: flairs, polls, feeds, hashtags, emoji reactions, better micro blog support, wikis (really big feature which I don’t see mentioned much), keyword filters, events, proper instance blocking (not just hiding communities) . Some apps don’t support all of these yet.

I’m a big fan of lapis. It’s built on openresty, a fork of nginx that embeds luajit into it. This means you can make use of all the features nginx has in your application. It’s really fast in my experience.

I have a medium-ish project written in lapis here: https://codeberg.org/irelephant/kittygram

There isn’t really much of an ecosystem around lua, lapis is really the only “proper” framework. There is stuff like redbean and mako which are cool, but not as complete/friendly to use as lapis imo.
Luarocks can be a bit of a pain as well (make sure to install packages for lua 5.1).

Lapis is made by the same person who made itch.io too, which i think it cool.

Skimming their profile more, they seem to be nuanced about it. They don’t deny the genocide, but they do deny the apartheid in the west bank (???). That’s an interesting take to have while your profile picture is the Israel flag.

I haven’t checked them myself, and I’m not too sure why we let them stick around. Skimming their profile, they’re not even popular in the liberal circles of lemmy.

They quit dbzer0 for a bit over our “zionism is nazism” tagline.

if you crush them, or flatten them, they don’t sting.

Hey, there’s some of that in my garden!

It’s growing right next to some giant hogweed though.

I recently found out you can eat nettles (the ones that sting you), and they actually taste nice.

lots of iron in them

Lemmy.world is 503-ing pretty often as well.

wait, why?

You will receive your execution date shortly.

This made me remember the really good bread subs reddit had, and I found !bready@lemmy.world and !bread@lemmy.ca.

But if you were aware of that and making a joke about how the first words of the different server’s rules were “be constructive” and “nothing positive” then , yeah this is a good joke.