
Wow.

Wow.
Discord alternatived are appearing like fungi and apparently vibe coders notice that, i discovered about 2 new vibe slopped discord alternatives in less than 2 days
The other one being yappers
Yeah there was nothing for years and years and then Discord introduced age verification and they were popping up like crazy, every one of them cuck coded. Sharkord, Chatto, Roomy, I'm sure others I'm forgetting. And now this.
Luckly there is still stuff like Stoat that does not seem vibe coded (or at least it wasn't last time i checked?)
Last time I ckecked, Stoat had a closed source Android app. I also feel like of you can, you should just run Matrix. It works, and feels a lot more versatile than those attempted Discord clones, especially due to federation.
Tbh i don't really like Matrix, especially because the most selling feature of discord for me is the guild and role system with granular permission management
$ git clone https://github.com/y4my4my4m/harmony && grep -R "//.*—" harmony | wc -l
17
17 em dashes in comments... yeah that's slop
You're right to push back — this does appear to be AI generated.
I've been using an em-dash for ages. Now people think I'm either a bot or use an AI to write for me. This is ridiculous.
You use em-dashes in code comments? It has its place in regular prose, but a comment is not a novel
Thank you for your training data. o7
I hate genAI so much.
I understand your frustration. It helps me personally to remember that it's not quite GenAI that is the problem—it's the greed that surrounds its implementation/usage. GenAI could have been just a tool, occasionally useful, but our obsession with productivity and the capitalistic goal of replacing workers to get even more profit for the owning class—or in other words just personal greed—is the real problem, not GenAI.
It's not the em-dashes, it's the feelings we have about them. Concern, trepidation, confusion. We don't need to stop using them, we need to take a breath. generated by the slopinator 5000
And honestly, you're right to feel that way. Em-dashes are a genuine indicator of AI usage.
I think you could use -o instead of regex? not sure :D
$ git clone https://github.com/y4my4my4m/harmony && grep -Ro "—" harmony | wc -l
The regex is to match only em dashes in comments (following a //). If you want to search for all em dashes you can just do that (though there's no need for the -o since grep matches lines and wc -l counts lines).
And grep -c spares the wc -l
no need for the
-osince grep matches lines andwc -lcounts lines
grep -o prints each match on a separate line, so the wc -l count will be higher if there are any lines with multiple matches.
Cinny is amazing
It's alright. As far as Matrix clients go, I like Sable. But Fluxer is on another level, I've really been enjoying it.
Fluxer has a permissive LLM policy, it’s why I chose Stoat over it.
Well Stoat has been in development limbo for the last decade and has no plans for federation.
I guess that's a fair point, Matrix is also an option if federation is important.
Matrix is a terrible, buggy option, sure. And with Fluxer being similarly open source and federated we may run into similar problems down the road.
terrible, buggy option
Can you elaborate? It’s nowhere near perfect but it works well enough to daily drive in my opinion.
I mean the list is long. Login issues, random decryption issues, it's incredibly slow, everyone is using a different software so things that work on one instance don't appear on others. It's a shitshow.
Aside from decryption issues I haven’t really experienced any of the others. I think having different clients and homeservers is actually a good thing. Imagine if Lemmy only had one client, the website, then I most likely wouldn’t even be using Lemmy/PieFed.
I’m not entirely sure what you’re referring to when you say “things”, I’ve been using Cinny for quite some time and haven’t had many issues with it. Most of these projects don’t have (proper) funding so naturally it develops more slowly than platforms with monetisation like Fluxer. It’s worth considering donating or contributing in other ways if you wish to see your favourite client or the protocol improve.
Obviously decentralization is good. But it does lead to a lot of problems as well where everyone isn't on the same page.
Most of these projects don’t have (proper) funding so naturally it develops more slowly than platforms with monetisation like Fluxer
What "proper" monetization do you think Fluxer has that these other platforms don't?
It’s worth considering donating or contributing in other ways if you wish to see your favourite client or the protocol improve.
Why would I contribute to 20 year old projects in the hopes of improvement when Fluxer is already everything I want?
They use the same business model as Discord, it’s freemium software: https://fluxer.app/plutonium.
But you do you.
It looks like recently they finally sifted through a lot of governance and dev team issues, we now have screenshare and a much better client
Dunno about federation, but people have been self-hosting for a long time
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