njtrafficsignshopper

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[–] njtrafficsignshopper 1 points 1 year ago

I might be willing to help with this if you want to tackle it and are interested in help. I'm newish to Lemmy but want to get my feet wet. What tech stack do you prefer? Typescript is a very short leap from Javascript if you already know it, IMO.

[–] njtrafficsignshopper 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah gotcha. Could you also link me to Lemmy-ui?

[–] njtrafficsignshopper 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Thanks for the response. Was that update recent? Could swear I didn't see so many options last time I checked...

I wonder whether a pull request would be welcome to allow users to specify a URL for a custom CSS file also.

[–] njtrafficsignshopper 2 points 1 year ago

Interesting, could be because it's something you've had to do often enough that they're trying to rate limit you

[–] njtrafficsignshopper 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gotta be honest, I am kind of curious to try this.

[–] njtrafficsignshopper 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hm I have made at least 3 gmail addresses and didn't have to do this. And in fact their apps support account switching pretty easily, which seems to indicate that they don't really disapprove of making multiple accounts.

In fact the only thing they asked for was a backup email address in case you get locked out or they need to send security alerts, and that was optional.

[–] njtrafficsignshopper 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks.

So not too dissimilar in terms of total numbers of users... however considering the growth of the whole internet's user base...

760 million total worldwide internet users in 2003, vs 4.7 billion today.

Based on these sources, then, 1.3% of all internet users were using XMPP in 2003, and 0.26% of all internet users in the fediverse in 2023. As a proportion of all users, that makes XMPP roughly 5x more popular back then than ActivityPub is now.

[–] njtrafficsignshopper 8 points 1 year ago

Hmm I had a lot of trouble with jeroba, liftoff is working well for me at the moment though.

[–] njtrafficsignshopper 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Are there numbers to back this up? I remember Pidgin being a contender to replace AIM for a time.

[–] njtrafficsignshopper 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Wait - what kind of proof of identity do Gmail, outlook, Yahoo, etc require to make an email address?

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