so you’re saying i should have anticipated that people might have willingly misinterpreted “that is a stupid position to take and here is why” as “you as a person are stupid” and, instead of telling me why they thought I was wrong, try to get me banned from beehaw as a result?

i would’ve been okay if you’d just said yes and left it at that. but the “actually, you are calling me stupid” really rubs my fur backwards

Exactly. Discord token stealers have been around for ages but no one gives Discord flak about leaving that secret unencrypted.

I don’t understand at all where you’re going with this. Either Beehaw uses Lemmy on the backend or it doesn’t. Either you’re using Ladybird or you’re using a different browser. These are pretty binary choices.

hope you don’t forget the semicolon on a line by itself at the end (except in functions where you want to return the value of the last expression)

i’m not calling people stupid, i’m calling an idea stupid. is that also not kosher?

Of course not. I would do my research, like any responsible consumer.

I’m a programmer. Which libraries I pick to add to my project have effects on everyone who will use the software I publish. I owe it to them to do my homework to compare them and figure out what the differences are and which one is better for my use case. If I just picked whichever one was most popular, I could have a polyfill.io incident on my hands every week.

I do the same thing with software I personally use, because I’m a responsible consumer. Firefox and Chrome aren’t identical. Chrome has way more downloads but I’m betting more than half the people in this thread use Firefox or one of its derivatives, like Mull or Librewolf.

I dream of a world where doing your homework when choosing software to learn is not so rare that people assume no one does, and accuse those who do of lying.

If this is provably the case, then I agree, we should stop using Lemmy. If not – and I say this as a proud supporter of the vast majority of seemingly-pointless ideological bullcrap – it is nothing but pointless ideological bullcrap.

I refuse to believe there exist two pieces of software that are truly for all intents and purposes identical, unless one is a very recent fork of the other.

Both Lemmy and Ladybird are very pointedly not forks of anything.

Compassion is not a zero-sum game. We do not have to reserve our capacity to care about issues only to issues that affect people we think are deserving.

That would depend on the feature set

you’re kidding, right?

Using Lemmy without donating to the developers does not send support to them. Same goes for Ladybird, does it not?

oh boy I can’t wait for all of the integrations to break

also is it just me or is deciding what software you use and do not pay for based on the political views of the people who create it (who again in no way benefit from its use by people who don’t donate) incredibly fucking stupid

Ummm… true. I’ll go ‘true’. Might’ve heard that one before, though, to be honest, sort of cheating

OBS adds a system tray icon to let you know it’s recording

This program adds a system tray icon to let you know you’re gay

the man on the right was so angry he exploded the woman with his mind

cone on, do not try to tell me that samus isn’t a lesbian

or ask them for clarification.

How do this without it being the most awkward thing ever

Face it, Linux is just the kernel. You use systemd as your operating system.

They did? That’s news to me. Who did they sell it to? And what do you use instead?

^{So help me God, if you say Brave}