Redditors, how do you like Lemmy?

posted 1 year ago

I run a few groups, like @fediversenews@venera.social, mostly on Friendica. It’s okay, but Friendica resembles Facebook Groups more than Reddit. I also like the moderation options that Lemmy has.

Currently, I’m testing jerboa, which is an Android client for Lemmy. It’s in alpha, has a few hiccups, but it’s coming along nicely.

Personally, I hope the #RedditMigration spurs adoption of more Fediverse server software. And I hope Mastodon users continue to interact with Lemmy and Kbin.

All that said, as a mod of a Reddit community (r/Sizz) I somewhat regret giving Reddit all that content. They have nerve charging so much for API access!

Hopefully, we can build a better version of social media that focuses on protocols, not platforms.

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J_C___ (lemmy.place)@sh.itjust.works

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1 year ago

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Osnapitsjoey@lemmy.one

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1 year ago

God damn! Okay now I’m fully behind it

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CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org

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1 year ago

Fast because it’s pointer-based like C, but better because it’s memory safe, which means it won’t crash, leak or mysteriously overwrite it’s own data constantly.

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Danacus@lemmy.vanoverloop.xyz

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1 year ago

I’d say that it’s fast because it’s compiled to machine code and doesn’t use garbage collection. But I see what you mean with “pointer-based”.

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CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org

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1 year ago

Is there anything with no garbage collection that doesn’t work with pointers? If the compiler is handling all the memory allocation for you it might as well just collect garbage, so I figured they were kind of synonymous.

Since we’re now going into details, Rust is neat because they figured out a way to keep track of the memory safety of pointers at compile time. That’s hard to do, which is why it’s a new language and not the old standard.

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Danacus@lemmy.vanoverloop.xyz

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1 year ago

I would argue that on the one hand you could say that the references to objects in garbage collected languages are also pointers.

On the other hand, you could argue that such references are not pointers, but then you might as well argue that references in rust are not pointers.

I just feel like “a language with pointers” is a weird way to describe a language and it isn’t really something that causes the language to become fast. Pointers are low level constructs that are used all the time, and whether or not they are abstracted away in the high level language doesn’t automatically make it slow or fast.

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CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org

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1 year ago

Hmm. Alright, what word would you use to differentiate C or Rust pointers/references from, say, Python? I haven’t actually made anything with Rust, but it sounds like you can store a reference in another structure like you can in C, but you can’t AFAIK in Python.

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