I like Lemmy a lot, but when you share a URL it’s just an ID number. Compare that to Reddit, where you can get a lot more information on what you’re about to look at just from the URL alone.
https://lemmy.ml/post/27659153 vs
https://old.reddit.com/r/AsahiLinux/comments/1jg3vlk/progress_report_linux_614/
Are there any plans to make Lemmy URLs more meaningful?
Should they? To my awareness that’s all original code developed by Meta.
I love that you guys use AGPL, the best license for networked software. This is exactly how Truth Social (the Donald Trump social site) was forced to release their source code, since it was just Mastodon, which is AGPL. The links to their sources are available here (warning, fash website link), but I do not know if they are actually compliant and up-to-date with whatever code changes they’ve made to it.
Of course, as we can see, AGPL is not about disallowing monetization, even by corporate actors. It’s about giving back. A thing that reactionaries and big companies are exceptionally bad at doing. The AGPL is anathema to the all-consuming, anti-social goals of silicon valley tech companies. Consider Google’s Anti-AGPL policy: https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl-policy. Compare that to how they treat Android, which is Linux (GPLv2) with the entire userland stripped out and replaced with non-copyleft code so as to ensure their continued control over the devices once they sell them to you.
OK, I’m hopping off the soapbox, now 😆
Palestinians, remember the following: you can resist your occupation but ONLY on the occupiers terms.
For the rest of us, remember the following: you can protest genocide, but ONLY on the genocider’s terms.