Same thing happened to me. If I block someone on Mastodon or another Fediverse microblogging instance, they're blocked. Because that part of the Fediverse was built by people who had been harassed and doxxed off other platforms.
Here? Blocking just means you don't see the troll, but they can continue to inflict all kinds of havoc on your post scores. Ironically, "karma" isn't a thing on Lemmy like it is on Reddit, but votes are still used to rank your posts.
I guess there are a hundred great folk on here for every preteen edgelord, but that kind of nonsense really spoils the fun of this platform. Sorry to see you get downvoted for a perfectly reasonable post.
I'm not a developer either, but I would say PHP is the bare minimum if you want a dynamic site. You're not going to go from scratch to anything presentable without putting time and some coding into it.
Don't take this as discouragement, just a bit of realism going into this project.
I use markdown for pretty much everything, and I agree with the overall notion of this rundown, but —
Seeing weird characters when you copy-paste from AI? That’s because ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and others use Markdown to format their responses.
Yeah, maybe that's not the gotcha the author thought it would be.
Markdown — so stupid simple even stochastic parrots can figure it out is a slogan that will age like milk.
Most of their operations are now running with money as the motivation
Let's be real, that was always their end goal. They were never "open" except in name. Their free services were only to a) build a user base, and b) use it as unpaid beta testers.
Yeah, as I said earlier it wasn't completely clear to me if this was only a question about push notifications or just all-round play services replacement. That is why I also mentioned SunUp which uses UnifiedPush.
Same thing happened to me. If I block someone on Mastodon or another Fediverse microblogging instance, they're blocked. Because that part of the Fediverse was built by people who had been harassed and doxxed off other platforms.
Here? Blocking just means you don't see the troll, but they can continue to inflict all kinds of havoc on your post scores. Ironically, "karma" isn't a thing on Lemmy like it is on Reddit, but votes are still used to rank your posts.
I guess there are a hundred great folk on here for every preteen edgelord, but that kind of nonsense really spoils the fun of this platform. Sorry to see you get downvoted for a perfectly reasonable post.