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Re: Lemmy: Federated Alternative to Reddit in Rust

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Post by twic »

s_y_n_t_a_x wrote: post #97
s_y_n_t_a_x wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was mainly commenting on the frontend as I'm not well-versed in Rust, my dissenter seems to have a problem with the backend and the organization of the project, which seems unfair since it's in it's infancy, you can always restructure a project and reorganize code. I was commenting on the code, not the files. As for the frontend, it's all typed, and very minimal. Very rarely do we see frontend code that does just w…

I'm not sure why my compliments are being downvoted. Do ya'll hate the code that much?

Forget it Jake, it's Hacker News.

Re: Lemmy: Federated Alternative to Reddit in Rust

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Post by bartimus »

I think a project like Diaspora failed because they chose to write it in Ruby on Rails. Ruby is nice from a purist point of view. But you'd want to build something like this on top of a language which is popular, accessible, has a low learning curve and can be easily deployed anywhere.

Re: Lemmy: Federated Alternative to Reddit in Rust

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Post by rthomas6 »

FraaJad wrote: post #76

Is there a rust implementation of mastodon? The dependencies for the current implementations are too brittle IMHO.

There's a fairly popular project written in Elixir called Pleroma. It's not Rust, but it's a lot faster and lighter than Ruby.

Re: Lemmy: Federated Alternative to Reddit in Rust

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Post by drivebycomment »

sanbor wrote: post #83
drivebycomment wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google claims they don't track with fonts: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq#what_does_using_the_... Whether you believe them or not is up to you of course.

Where does it claims that it does not track? From your link: Google Fonts logs records of the CSS and the font file requests, and access to this data is kept secure. Aggregate usage numbers track how popular font families are, and are published on our analytics page. We use data from Google’s web crawler to detect which websites use Google fonts. This data is published and accessible in the Google Fonts BigQuery data…

Just before the part you quoted has this:

"Use of Google Fonts is unauthenticated. No cookies are sent by website visitors to the Google Fonts API. Requests to the Google Fonts API are made to resource-specific domains, such as fonts.googleapis.com or fonts.gstatic.com, so that your requests for fonts are separate from and do not contain any credentials you send to google.com while using other Google services that are authenticated, such as Gmail."

That's basically saying Font download is not being associated with any individual. And the part you quoted says they keep the aggregate stats, which is reasonable, especially given that the aggregated stats are available publicly.

Re: Lemmy: Federated Alternative to Reddit in Rust

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Post by sanbor »

drivebycomment wrote: post #107
sanbor wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where does it claims that it does not track? From your link: Google Fonts logs records of the CSS and the font file requests, and access to this data is kept secure. Aggregate usage numbers track how popular font families are, and are published on our analytics page. We use data from Google’s web crawler to detect which websites use Google fonts. This data is published and accessible in the Google Fonts BigQuery data…

Just before the part you quoted has this: "Use of Google Fonts is unauthenticated. No cookies are sent by website visitors to the Google Fonts API. Requests to the Google Fonts API are made to resource-specific domains, such as fonts.googleapis.com or fonts.gstatic.com, so that your requests for fonts are separate from and do not contain any credentials you send to google.com while using other Google services that ar…

Thanks for the clarification. However I'm not sure that means they don't track. They specify some of the things that they do with the data, but the last sentence "To learn more about the information Google collects and how it is used and secured, see Google's Privacy Policy" means that they could also use any piece of data to improve their products.
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