Hello I am Banana. I work in the Silicon Hills (Austin, Texas) as a Developer. I work a lot with Artificial Intelligence its going to change the world. (For better or worse)
Reddit literally don’t care. They gotta try and become profitable somehow and they will destroy their community to get there if they have too
This was basically force the admins of reddit to remove them as mods… going to annoy a lot of people but its not going to magically cease reddits operations.
The good news is the tech works, the interface and user experience can be improved.
I think even better, you should be able to sign into any instance via some type of centralised federated login, though I guess the argument is you can’t do that in multiple email clients as email is the most popular federated example.
As someone who has never played Diablo 4, I am enjoying it.
I like the concept
But it feels very much like its been designed by nerdy developers and has had little to no-input on user friendly design.
The federated idea can work but it needs to be more seemless than this.
The truth is if you have to explain to users how it works, its not a very user-friendly concept.
I don’t know you overestimate people, I think if the Fediverse will succeed its gotta be dumbed down a lot more for people and made seemless so it works without them having to think about the various instances as much.
Annoyingly, even thought I don’t want to support Reddit. There is still going to be some useful things on Reddit, but I really hope most the community move over to here, or somewhere else.
In all seriousness, no one is talking about this, but this is the one disadvantage of open source software being developed by volunteers, we don’t know exactly how the admin accounts were hacked but the XSS stuff is really basic stuff, none of those fields were sanatised at all, and it makes me concerned what else has been missed, obviously the advantage of open source is in time this stuff can get fixed, but this is what happens when loads of people who aren’t experts contribute to a site.
In comparison to sites where there is a fully hired developer team the quality of the code is significantly better. I really hope the passwords were hashed on these instances and the hackers didn’t get plain text passwords or anything really bad like this.
One thing and credit to Ernest, as I’ve contributed there he does very thorough code reviews and his quality of code is very good, its why im confident kbin won’t be hacked.