Still 404 on my end

They did run a revolt server for a while, but they apparently had to revert back to discord for reasons.

I’m getting a 404

That’s not how copyrights work.

[…]Looping through the list you’ve been given, and making extra queries adds complexity and delay, when the expectation from the user is that this list should appear pretty quickly.[…]

While you’re correct about this, this could be handled dynamically. Simply fetch the list of posts quickly as usual, and then start polling for crossposts in the background and if any two appear in the current frontpage the user is seeing, merge them.

My counter to that, would be that if you aren’t using the API in the way the developers expected, your app has ceased to be frontend, and is instead its own program that’s scraping data from it.

Not at all. That’s not what scraping means.

I just completely disagree with the idea that a frontend should stick to what the backend design is, especially for a FOSS project.

Frontends generate the main feed by querying api/v3/post/list. This doesn’t provide any crosspost info - for that you have to go into the post itself by querying api/v3/post. As such, frontends would have to do a fair bit of extra work to wrangle the required information for a main feed that combined crossposts.

Most frontends already display available crossposts so you’re not wasting anything more than grabbing all the comment sections as well.

I’d argue that you have a problem as soon as you start saying ‘frontends need to do some extra work’ - it breaks the dynamic between backends and frontends. Backends should be big, complicated things, worked on by people familiar with the project, to provide all the logic, whereas frontends should be light, relatively easy to write, runnable on devices with limited resources, and mostly focused on how the information provided to them should be displayed. They should store the user’s preferences, and login details, and that’s it - everything else should come from the backend.

I don’t agree at all. There’s space for complex frontends which attempt to adjust the feed according to their own logic, as well as minimalistic frontends which follow the backend’s design explicitly.

So I just installed it to check and it doesn’t do that. It just makes crossposts a bit more visible.

However it looks like a neat app so I’ll take it for a drive for a bit

Does it show all comments in the same place like I suggest, or does one have to click on each crosspost to see them?

This is what this post is suggesting, yes

That’s a 404. Is there a git repo? I could use obtainium

Link plox

Sadly, Ddg. What else can I use?

The funny thing is that Putin thinks he’s following the same playbook of “color revolutions”, a conspiracy theory popular among Marxists, and showing practically why it doesn’t work. But he keep trying because he believes it’s actually being used against him. So he keep failing hilariously like that again and again.

Holy shit. They are just cartoonishly evil now.

It’s almost impossible to determine bots nowadays. They’re better at solving captchas than humans.

None. There’s no good ones. There’s at best acceptable ones

Good time to promote !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Which is probably why the lemmy UI started getting randomly overwhelmed from AI scraping bots :S

eh, ddg is just bing. Only marginally better ideologically, and probably worse practically.

Google search is complete shite nowadays. We’re just lucky nobody is advertising for those keywords.