I just got into selfhosting with a used thin client (Dell Wyse 3040), only $30 on eBay. I don’t know what I’m doing at all and it’s still working out great for me so far, so I think that’s a good enough endorsement.

Worth keeping in mind that Facebook has manipulated data before:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pivot_to_video#Facebook_metrics_controversy

In September 2016, Facebook admitted that it had reported artificially inflated numbers to its advertisers about how long viewers watched ads leading to an overestimation of 60-80%[44] Facebook apologized in an official statement and in multiple staff appearances at New York Advertising Week.[45][46] Two months later, Facebook disclosed additional discrepancies in audience metrics.[47][48] In October 2018, a California federal court unsealed the text of a class action lawsuit filed by advertisers against Facebook, alleging that Facebook had known since 2015 that its viewership numbers were inflated “by some 150 to 900 percent” and waited over a year before taking action to disclose or fix the problem, citing internal Facebook communications that “somehow there was no progress on the task for the year” and decisions to “obfuscate the fact that we screwed up the math.”[49][50]

I used to refuse to even consider variants on smores for some reason I genuinely don’t remember, I guess just for being committed to being a joyless pedant. I was like the grilled cheese copypasta guy. I can’t believe I was missing out on stuff like this

That’s @RSS, for those who might want to look it up (I really wish kbin would show posters’ instances more clearly). Subscribed!

I think by “here” OP meant the fediverse in general, hence “an interesting topic and the right community”. I would guess this is just encouraging people to post more in general (which I appreciate as I was mostly a lurker for my 13 years on Reddit)

I love the avatar replacement script sooo much, but I just wish the icon was consistent between posts from the same person; whether that’s from using the username as a randomizer seed to make it consistent between pages, or just pushing username and generated-icon associations into an object on a per-page basis. As it is, it dramatically decreases accessibility for me, which makes me sad because the parrot brings me joy.

Of course I just wrote all this and realized someone said this exact thing on page two. I suppose I’ll post it anyway just to say, yeah, I’m a user being directly impacted by it; if you can’t figure it out by the time that I’m not deliriously ill then I might take a crack at it myself

I’m not taking this literally, but Tumblr actually does add flashy stuff like this a lot (they added fucking confetti when you make a post. WHY) and it has been hell for my photosensitive friends.

I do think we need any kind of visual feedback though, maybe some sort of accent color. I find myself second-guessing a lot if I actually clicked on a button or not

I would hate this personally. (tho you can take that with a grain of salt, I’m not “from” fedi and I’m still getting used to that voters on a post are viewable at all.) I don’t always upvote things because I love them enough to share, sometimes it’s just like a pat on the back

Retweets are absolutely reversible. (And so are boosts, but it was initially glitched)