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.
Hello future person, Kbin is dead now. You can go ahead and give me your pitch for why PHP is a great programming language, though - I’ve never used it.
You could also word that as “deferring to other people with more experience trying to use PHP”.
It gets a lot of hate. But it also drives a whole bunch of large businesses, and a lot of products. Its not trendy, but it gets the work done. In the past there were many bad products made ontop of it, but those products made sales, so were they really all that bad?
Its popular to use it like a punching bag, but the reality is its sigificantly better than the time period where most of the “hate” comes from. A time before javascript.
Its funny, people struggle to hit c10k with modern application stacks, but we had been doing it since before the iPhone.
I quite like it, its quite clean, the tooling isn’t painful, and its fairly easy to make applications go fast.
tl;dr its a conservative technical choice, and ergo, unfashionable, but also drives a good portion of the internet.
Disclosure: I write PHP unless I have a good reason not to, I also do some .Net and some Go.
Interesting to hear it’s fast.
Saying “you can use it and it has been used a lot” feels a bit like faint praise, on the other hand. I appreciate the effort to write me up a reply, though.
Honestly, keeping the excitable children in TypeScript-land is for the best. I just wish they’d shut the fuck up about their AI workflows while I’m around.
It is quite performant, most of the performance issues are more bad architecture than anything else.
Also it scales horizontally rather well without requiring me to build the infrastructure out before the need is there.