basequal

I’m sorry to bring up Reddit, but being interested in US politics (I’m not from the US) I’m impressed with the level of discussion here.

Almost every political reddit comment section I’ve encountered was a cesspool of such polarized left vs right opinions that anything more nuanced and centered was buried right away.

I am always fascinated with these types of comments, specifically for a free and open-source software. There are lemmy instances supporting hundreds of thousands of users and trafic, feedback from both server owners and lemmy devs is almost instantaneous.

A platform like lemmy requires client side knowledge to build both desktop and mobile UI (that are performant), it requires ActivityPub knowledge to integrate with the Fediverse, it requires backend knowledge to build APIs for 100% feature compatibility with 3rd party apps. It requires DB knowledge to optimize queries, it requires devops / platform knowledge to deploy it.

And all of this is built in public.

BuT LEMmY tEaM lAcks dEvEloPmenT SkiLL – sure buddy.

The fact that the majority here is okay to settle with a mildly dissapointing 80 year old, just so the other "evil" side doesn't win is a bit disheartening for the state of US politics and democracy.

And this is comming from a politically shithole country I am born and living in.

TBF the boat disaster could have been a rescue story as well if someone cared enough. There are two major countries naval fleets in the Atlantic, whereas the story is much different in the Mediterranean.

Yeah, it really adds a great touch to the informative content.