I joined Lemmy back in 2020 and have been using it as [email protected] until somewhere in 2023 when I switched to lemmy.world. I’m interested in systemd/Linux, FOSS, and Selfhosting.

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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Lemmy has also taken over advertiser focused moderation patterns. A great example is NSFW. What is NSFW exactly? Not safe for work? Why is only that relevant?
    NSFW is just used to mark advertiser unfriendly content. Why else group nakedness, violence, sexual content, and death in the same category?
    It’s way too vague to be useful, you have no idea if you’re going to see a nipple or a murder.

    Content warnings like on Mastodon are better, but don’t provide a way to reliably filter out categories. I personally think it would be way better to have specific nested tags for certain types of material.
















  • I usually pick Rust for CLI tools because:

    1. It’s statically compiled and isn’t dependent on system binaries and won’t break if there if the system has the wrong version like C/C++, allowing you to distribute it as a single binary without any other installation steps
    2. Still produces fairly small binaries unlike languages like Java or C# (because of the VM)
    3. Is a modern language with a good build system (It’s like night and day compared to CMake)
    4. And I just like how the language works (errors as values etc.)