If you go through the comments, you will see that the devs talk about an issue with the logic in the for loop, which "may be stopping before it should". Writing a couple of test cases that check whether this is true or not should be trivial.
I'd expect at the very least some type of regression tests to be implemented for every bug that makes into production, to avoid cases like this one where the developers spend weeks figuring out whether their patches even fix the bug in the first place.
There is also a lesson in implementing proper tests. During these holidays I started to play a bit more with Rust and went on to look at Lemmy's backend code. Not a single unit test in sight...
Even if we exclude the alien.top mirror bots (which have been disabled about a month ago), this is still the most active one...
Can't do that if you are just defederating with them in the first place like you said you would.
Are you actually thinking through your answers or just turning knee-jerk reactions?
If we don't grow faster, we are always going to be irrelevant. To illustrate the point: Lemmy had a monstrous gift given by Reddit's management and completely failed to capitalize on it. Later on, when my fediverser project was signing up hundreds of people per day and the conversations started by the bots were used by organic users in niche communities, the reactionaries here decided to treat everything as spam, instead of seeing it as a hook to convert more people.
Fast forward a few weeks, and now Lemmy is back to being a place to nothing but meta-conversation about the Fediverse and a handful of people pretending they are not using Reddit anymore.
You don't need to see them just because the same network as you. But they need to be here if we want corporate social media to die.
How are you going to filter it out?
And I am talking about the people on the networks, whether it is Facebook or the instances themselves.
You want to say "I don't want Meta to come", but what about the people who are there?
Do you "hate" your family? Your neighbors? Co-workers? Normies?
Not only all the things you mention, but I kept thinking "Well, if they do manage to make a pivot where they are nothing but infrastructure and still manage to please Wall Street, then good for everyone:
If anything, all these "what if scenarios" are almost making me wish that Zuck does pull it off.
Do you treat the people on the same instance as you as "taking your space"? Wouldn't it better to think of it as shared, which means that it is not really yours or anyone else's?
I want to work an issue that is open since 2020, but I can only justify dropping all my other work for that if I have enough paying customers interested in some new feature. So, help me get 50 customers to my "all in one" hosting service and I will dedicate a week to it, which should be more than enough time for even a Rust newbie like me to submit a proper PR to that issue. Ok?