#TIL that hashtags can have underscores.
T. I. L., as in, just TODAY.
Guys, I've been on the Fediverse for over six years. 😂
We're continuing investigation to the performance issues, you can follow and react here: https://lemmy.world/c/friendicaworld
smlckz
in reply to R.L. Dane 🍵 • •@R.L. Dane 🍵 Similarly It's been over four years that I've joined the Fediverse (over at @ûnkreativiteit ) was interested about rich text support. Mastodon proper has implemented the support for rendering rich text, but users can only author with plain text for now. There's an open issue regarding this matter on GitHub.
So, today I created an account on this Friendica instance to try it out.There are some really good ideas in Friendica, e.g. following an RSS/Atom feed, Circles, Groups and Channels. There are some issues as well that I'm currently facing (as if you can not have only the good stuff), e.g. somewhat dated
... Show more...@R.L. Dane 🍵 Similarly It's been over four years that I've joined the Fediverse (over at @ûnkreativiteit ) was interested about rich text support. Mastodon proper has implemented the support for rendering rich text, but users can only author with plain text for now. There's an open issue regarding this matter on GitHub.
So, today I created an account on this Friendica instance to try it out.There are some really good ideas in Friendica, e.g. following an RSS/Atom feed, Circles, Groups and Channels. There are some issues as well that I'm currently facing (as if you can not have only the good stuff), e.g. somewhat dated and confusing UI.
I can not see many replies to this post from Friendica (problems with federation?) which otherwise can be seen on Mastodon, your instance, I wonder how (and why) does that happen.
R.L. Dane 🍵
2025-05-09 03:22:03
R.L. Dane 🍵
in reply to smlckz • • •You should check out Glitch Social, which is a close fork of Mastodon, but adds rich text authoring and long post-limits, along with a few other interesting features.
Glitch is currently my favorite way to fediverse; GoToSocial is a close second.
I've tried Mastodon, Glitch, GoToSocial, Pixelfed, snac, and Friendica.
smlckz
in reply to R.L. Dane 🍵 • •@R.L. Dane 🍵 You've already responded to me: friendica.world/display/401036…
I gather that the post I'm now replying to was written after your instance received that post you've replied to.. That would mean, it took almost a week to reach! Maybe this post will also take a week (or more) to reach you.. or not? BTW which instance of Glitch would you recommend for trying out? I'm already using, let me count, Mastodon, Akkoma, Friendica and Hubzilla.. If I'm too bored, I'll dive into the ActivityPub protocol internals as well..
@R.L. Dane 🍵 You've already responded to me: friendica.world/display/401036…
I gather that the post I'm now replying to was written after your instance received that post you've replied to.. That would mean, it took almost a week to reach! Maybe this post will also take a week (or more) to reach you.. or not? BTW which instance of Glitch would you recommend for trying out? I'm already using, let me count, Mastodon, Akkoma, Friendica and Hubzilla.. If I'm too bored, I'll dive into the ActivityPub protocol internals as well..
R.L. Dane 🍵
2025-05-09 16:38:16
R.L. Dane 🍵
in reply to smlckz • • •Ha, I thought I was having a little Déjà vu!
Unfortunately, I don't have a particular recommendation on an instance, but I did find this list: write.tedomum.net/rgx/a-glitch…
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Dendrobatus Azureus
in reply to R.L. Dane 🍵 • • •We learn our whole life
I'm going to start with my beloved Vim.
Bram Molenaar has setup Vim in such a way, that you may use, only use what you need, learn by accessing and processing the necessary commands in the Local help file & work in that manner for even years.
Every time you need to learn something else in Vim, you just go in that same local help file.
Vim help was set up in such a beautiful way, you can learn as you go...
It's quite clear that there will be a lot of TIL when using Vim
Complex systems like the Fediverse are also designed in that way you learn just what you need and then when you stumble upon something, you go on help
It's a beautiful thing when help and program are tuned towards each other
#VimMasterRace #Vim #programming #coding #OpenSource #syntax #TIL #Fediverse #underscore
Ángela Stella Matutina
in reply to R.L. Dane 🍵 • • •R.L. Dane 🍵
in reply to Ángela Stella Matutina • • •Hey now, #CamelCaseIsLovely
I cut my teeth on Pascal, I'll never stop using #CamelCase. XD
Ángela Stella Matutina
in reply to R.L. Dane 🍵 • • •It's fine for code but also (a) harder to explain/teach, (b) harder to automate, (c) badly supported on Mastodon (incremental search usually smashes case).
I have no issues with Pascal (Borland's implementations and docs were excellent), but I had to learn C immediately afterwards like everyone else.
Yeah, I belong in a museum too, just like these languages.
R.L. Dane 🍵
in reply to Ángela Stella Matutina • • •I think Mastodon has gotten better at preserving #CamelCase in hashtags. #GoToSocial is working on it, it's still really bad right now (always flattening/
tolower()-ing).I can see being a bit harder to explain/teach, although I'm not sure what cases of automation you're referring to.
I guess my main thing (and perhaps it's a silly one) is that
_is harder to reach than just capitalizing (and not spacing out) the next word. XDI used Borland on the PC and Symantec/THINK on the Mac. Both absolutely lovely.
Symantec Pascal on the (emulated) mac was actually a stepping stone towards @neaoire@merveilles.town's development of #uxn, IIRC. They even developed a 3d game in Pascal on the Mac (heavily accelerated, of course)
Devine Lu Linvega
in reply to R.L. Dane 🍵 • • •wiki.xxiivv.com/site/graf3dsce…
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Ángela Stella Matutina
in reply to R.L. Dane 🍵 • • •Oh, that. Generating camelcase from text typed in normal style is not as straightforward as a simple search-and-replace. And that's somewhat importante because touch-typists HATE reconfiguring their fingers for either, it fucks with their error rate.
R.L. Dane 🍵
in reply to Ángela Stella Matutina • • •I think either case (
FooBarvsfoo_bar) is an uncomfortable detour from normal typing.Ángela Stella Matutina
in reply to R.L. Dane 🍵 • • •GitHub - harshvsingh8/win-tools: A collection of useful command line tools for PC (includes Unix tools, Ag (silver searcher), Clink, Google Code Search, and more...)
GitHubR.L. Dane 🍵
in reply to Ángela Stella Matutina • • •Ángela Stella Matutina
in reply to R.L. Dane 🍵 • • •R.L. Dane 🍵
in reply to Ángela Stella Matutina • • •I loved Word 4.0 for Macintosh, and tolerated Word 2003.
I won't touch Office 2007 or newer with a ten foot pole.
I don't even use LO Writer, I just use neovim and markdown. ;)
ûnkreativiteit
in reply to R.L. Dane 🍵 • • •I tried to respond to your toot on Friendica, I suppose it did not work out, and thus did not reach you. Here's a link to it: friendica.world/display/84b6ef…
smlckz
2025-05-09 13:31:16
I tried to respond to your toot on Friendica, I suppose it did not work out, and thus did not reach you. Here's a link to it: friendica.world/display/84b6ef…
smlckz
2025-05-09 13:31:16
R.L. Dane 🍵
in reply to ûnkreativiteit • • •That's really interesting!
I did try Friendica myself a few months ago, but I didn't stay with it.
I liked the rich text and long posts, of course, but on mobile, I just used the same client as everything else (Tusky), and I found the web interface of Friendica kind of confusing, so after a while, I just went back to #GoToSocial.
I'm bummed that the federation between GTS & Friendica seems to not be working great, or at least the federation between my instance and yours.
The hard stop for me with vanilla Mastodon isn't the lack of Markdown support (which I love and use a great deal), but rather the 500 character limit. That's just annoying to me. I'd rather it be 144 or 5,000, but not ever 500. XD
Check out #GlitchSocial / #GlitchSoc -- it's a Mastodon fork with Markdown and long post limits, and some other features. Very cool stuff!
R.L. Dane 🍵
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in reply to R.L. Dane 🍵 • • •@R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 @ûnkreativiteit Now, let me try quoting:
Which means Hubzilla can be understood as the spiritual successor of Friendica.. or so it seems. Not bad..
Hubzilla - info@hubzilla.org
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R.L. Dane 🍵
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