No. “Hello, world!” or you’re doing it wrong.

Well if that is true, then that’s completely fair. If they looked for someone to take it and nobody did, then there should be no surprise that it is gone now. You can be sad about it but not too sad, you should’ve just taken up the charge yourself then.

As an instance admin myself, I’m so confused… If you went through the effort of setting up an instance, the effort of transferring all the access and stuff to someone else would be nothing. Just seems super weird to disappear without a trace and without handing it over to someone else.

but it can lead to absurdly high version numbers

I have a really hard time seeing this as a problem. Why is 125 an “absurd” version number? You’ve presumably done 125 patch versions since the last minor version, so doesn’t it just make sense?

It’s just a number, it doesn’t matter if it’s “high”.

Linux doesn’t use semantic versioning, right? So this is just an arbitrary number?

I feel like you’re moving from moderation to sort of oppressive or authoritarian territory once you’re literally building a social credit system into your software. If you want that, sure use PieFed. I don’t want that, so I won’t.

No just the whole thing. It seems sort of extreme to do all this stuff in the code. This is not something the software should have inbuilt if you ask me.

I mean okay sure, you can disable these things. But the fact that they are enabled out of the box in the software as written is a huge red flag.

… Wow. I mean I already knew there was some questionable stuff with PieFed but this is honestly next level.

Downvote and move on, if the name becomes familiar block them.

Sorry, but you forgot a step:

Downvote and move on, if the name becomes familiar report them and then block them.

Moderators should help so not all users will need to block these bad actors.

Perhaps that was exactly the intent, to ensure that only actual humans read the content?

If that’s the case, it has the opposite effect. Humans generally benefit from being able to select text and not just read from an image. It’s of course especially important for blind people.

Meanwhile computers can easily read images via OCR algorithms.

Rust programs can definitely still consume a lot of memory. Not using a garbage collector certainly helps with memory usage, but it’s not going to change it from gigabytes to kilobytes. That requires completely rethinking how things are done.

That said I’m very much in favour of everyone learning Rust, as it’s a great language - but for other reasons than memory usage :)

Would recommend Case of the Golden Idol for a similar detective vibe.

I mean… He made www, HTML, URLs and HTTP. Literally everything you used to write your comment he was involved in. I’m sure he didn’t do it entirely alone, we always build on what came before us. But it’s not inaccurate to call him the inventor of the Web.

Also remember the Web is not the same as the Internet.