Press any key to continue… No, not that one!
Right, and what’s even as bizarre to me (as an engineer) is that they’re bots posing as people.
That’s arguably the most deceptive and malicious way to use a bot on a site meant for real people.
But they’ll quickly block any helpful bots anyone else tries to integrate on the platform.
“Our bad bots good, your good bots bad”. What a crazy world we live in.
Didn’t someone create this same thing a few weeks ago? 🤔
Good god! That was a good laugh 😂. Desperate to advertise to people who don’t want to be advertised to. Exploiting activity history of anonymous users? Uh… that’s the whole reason people post anonymously. Because they don’t want to be associated with their activity. How exactly is this a good strategy, again?
Yeah, I misunderstood. Maybe RSS feeds probably aren’t a good solution for replies in an individual nested thread within a post.
I can see that becoming chaotic to manage after subscribing to a handful of threads, all in separate RSS feeds. You’d be constantly subscribing and unsubscribing to deal with all the potential noise 😬
Left a comment to another user in this feed. Do you use RSS feeds at all? If so, you can use that to get notifications. But if you don’t use RSS feeds for sites, probably not worth it.
You can if you use RSS feeds. For instance an RSS feed for the threads in this post is at https://openrss.org/beehaw.org/post/15660443.
Ubuntu here as well! Sticking with just the LTS versions tho 😎
We’re talking about instances having feed content for other instances (on totally different domains), so anything helping with this case would be a “third party service”.
Oh neat! I didn’t know this existed. By any chance, do you know of any RSS readers that have implemented it?
You can use openrss.org RSS feeds. They are there for this exact purpose. For example, you can get an RSS feed of /c/retrogaming.ml by going to https://openrss.org/programming.dev/c/retrogaming@lemmy.ml. Then all links in the feed will always go to the post on programming.dev instance.
Yeah, depending on the branch I’ve found that method not to be too reliable. openrss offers branches for RSS feeds for commits on every branch though: e.g. https://openrss.org/github.com/octokit/octokit.rb/commits/main
Yeah, because anything that isn’t a big new JavaScript framework is just way too complicated
You can try an RSS feed. Here’s a link to the RSS feed to this post:
Have you tried returning 404 response status codes for the requested URLs? I think federated requests will need for your server to tell them the URLs don’t exist anymore.
We know that’s you, Brutus.
I like TypeScript for its types and type-checking, but I also want to write JavaScript to avoid having a local build step, and having to wait for things to transpile/compile/etc when running locally. I have a pretty large project where I’ve gotten both worlds by just using JSDoc and only using TS for type-checking. VSCode still offers built-in type-checking with JSDocs and ofc the type-checking can also be run separately if needed.
Yeah they’d have to maintain upgrades security patches etc and could get pricey depending on how much storage and bandwidth is involved.
This is so true. It costs more money for the server power required for something like that to be pulled off.
There’s a comment in this thread going all crazy complaining about it being costly to host anything on the protocol to stop Bluesky from dominating it and everything. But im like “uhh yeah, servers and storage costs money”.
It’s just so weird how everyone thinks hosting popular sites should be free.