It invites a steady major release cadence

All the instances that popped up during the reddit exodus were not that thought through. Once the feddiverse stabelize around sustainable communities it’ll work better

Sounds like a raspberry thing

The final fallback should be robodialing some tech support service and provide TeamViewer credentials

People say this every year. The vast majority of true innovation is behind us. Why was an article written this year? Is it just because some reporter browsed X and thought, “eh, why not?”. This is not news.

Also, posts like this look kinda silly

I miss the navigation buttons I had on RIF. Each comment had a next and previous button which would jump the focus to the next or previous comment. Replies had a go-to-parent button

Nix + dockerTools.

Doesn’t even need docker, and if buitt with flakes I don’t even have to checkout the repo.

The only real alternative to an embedded scripting language is lua, and too few prefer it over js. Lots of internals in gnome-shell is also written in js, allowing the scripting language to hook straight into the api and data structures without a plugin interface.

In a distant future everything is we assembly, with typed stable interfaces for plugins. But the might happen in gnome 8

At the start of each school year some niche social media gains popularity, simply because each year wants something new and “untainted”. Last year BeReal benefitted from this. It likely won’t survive for long as they’re losing users now