@kaiatimeanddate.com is pretty reasonable (when you turn off ads but use Firefox with the default enhanced protection enabled, you won't see any 99% of the time) and they have a reasonably priced supporter membershit for heavy users who want to contribute keeping the site that way
@Moon@cell@mischievoustomato@theorytoe The cache directories are my biggest pet peeve with electron apps, it's literally like using a separate portable Google Chrome for each website you visit, and for some reason 80% of those portable Google Chromes have the clear history button disabled, too.
The fuckers also slow down and bloat up file-based backup jobs like crazy.
@Moon@mischievoustomato@cell@theorytoe Electron apps are the present equivalent of a similar scourge that plagued the PCs of the mid-00s in certain professional and business environments, which was running several Java applications with Swing UIs that all shipped their own Java runtime.
The fallout was exactly the same, but even worse than today because CPUs were slower, RAM was more expensive and also slower, and mass storage was a LOT slower:
- Often sluggish UI experience compared to native toolkits - Huge cache directories littered all over the user's harddisk, wasting space - Security issues of the runtime only getting patched if/when the app itself was updated and bothered with updating the runtime as well - Sometimes haphazard integration with the OS / desktop
@Moon@i@pomstan To be fair, what's more military in general and U.S. Air Force specifically than stuffing a pilot into a minimum viable product and wish them godspeed
@squidink7@kaia@Moon@noyoushutthefuckupdad Ironically the current thrust of the fediverse, which is all about erecting walled gardens and content policing, means that being on the fediverse means losing access to large parts of the fediverse as well.
I mean, seriously, it looks like the normie-mastodon part of the network that came from Twitter is here to stay, so the big fediblock iron-curtain is here to stay, too.
So is the blackhat and pedo part of the network, because today's blackhats and pedos simply don't give much of a shit anymore if their stuff gets reported or shut down, they just take their shopping cart somewhere else and take their dumps in that backyard until they get thrown out again. It's not like being on the clearnet is like living in the nice part of town, where you don't have to worry about certain things. Not anymore.
For a multi-user instance, you now have to do the exact same janitorial busywork on clearnet that you'd assume would make life hell on an onion instance: Always have to keep an eye on your own users, lest some of them go on a rampage and get your instance fediblocked and rendered useless for the rest of the users, and constantly maintain block- and filter-lists for the federation, lest some pedos on a coke-bender flood your network timeline with CSAM or the most obscene imaginable drawn images.
Might as well keep doing that and go dot onion to at least remove the target off your back for tattletale activists who think the way to make the world a better place is to report and/or denounce everyone they don't like.
Is there any AP (micro-)blogging software out there (or alternative frontends, etc.) that lets you have two very classic features that every blog in the 2000s used to have and now have essentially gone extinct (even in modern blogs):
- An "archive" of posts sorted by month/year (archive in scarequotes because really it's just a database query)
- A taglist/tagcloud/tag-chart (I know Mastodon sort of has one, but it's just trending tags)
I would love to have that for every account (local or remote) that my server has in its database, but having it just for local accounts would already be great.
Boosts/repeats welcome.
Here's an illustration of what I mean, mocked up from a oldschool blog I found that's still online:
@Moon@cell There's an alternate timeline where people turned that quirk into a trendy new format for meme posts and somehow made Mastodon the coolest fedi kid again
@grillchen@kaia@lain Besondere Erwähnung für die Pioniere des generischen Neutrums:
- "Was machst Du eigentlich beruflich, Susi?" - "Ich bin Abwassertechnik. Gelernt. Fred hier ist auch Abwassertechnik. Die Leonie hat allerdings eine wilde Karriere hinter sich, die wollte mal Afrikanistin werden, hat das aber abgebrochen und war dann 'ne Weile freier 3D-Artist (w), bis die KI-Welle den Markt dafür zusammengeklappt hat und jetzt ist sie auch Abwassertechnik."
@kaia@lain Lass uns doch einfach den Doppelpunkt auch noch weglassen und dann schreiben wir halt 20-30 Jahre lang generisches Femininum bis auch den letzten Sprachgerechtigkeitsbewegten auffällt, dass man mit dem ollen Maskulinum am wenigsten tippt und dann ist der Spuk vorbei
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