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  • I agree with you, BTW. Nix is terrible at the beginning and the documentation is by far the worst I’ve seen. Yes, it exists, but good golly…

    It took me a day learned Python. It was that easy. Nix took significantly longer and there are parts I run into nowadays that still make me question what’s going on, because they are from functional programming and that is nearly always horribly explained.

    But, and here’s the big but, learning nix is worth it. As the other (uncompassionate) person said, think of it as JSON (with functional programming).

    Attribute sets = dictionaries/maps/JSON objects

    Attributes can be assigned numbers, strings, other attribute sets, or functions.

    New context is added via the let ... in syntax.

    If you need some help, maybe examples, you can ask and I’ll try to explain.




  • Akkoma only has two instances and they are both down

    Sharkey is a Misskey fork and there don’t seem to be any instances. Misskey has instances, but none that I tried actually allow seeing the posts without logging in. To top it off, they all require approval. That is one of my biggest pet peeves with “public” software: requiring a login to even evaluate it.

    Wafrn looks kinda interesting. It does require clicking to see every layer of responses and the entire thread isn’t shown like in lemmy, but maybe that’s configurable.

    Thanks for sharing. It looks like I’d have to go shopping for the right software in order to get what I want 😅








  • Thanks for the links. Documentation is definitely a problem. They’d have to be open to feedback on documentation. Threads on documentation improvement are often met with “it exists, what more do you want?” even if the feedback is “this and this is missing” 🤷

    Anyway, I’ll check out the links and try to set something up. My usage of radicle is definitely what it could be because of the lack of notifications. I literally fire and forget my repos, patches and so on, because I haven’t found an easy way to be made aware of responses or incoming patches.