How about some JavaScript p+=[]**[]?

It should probably be replaced with a more bespoke operator for that, like x isempty or something.

Hipsters

How is this a thing??

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Afaik the bot auto-creation is disabled now, but it used to mirror some Reddit subreddits by automatically creating bot accounts for every Reddit user posting in them, and using that to post the same content in a Lemmy community. That’s how the instance got over a million users, pretty much all of them are bots that do whatever the Reddit user with the same name is doing in one of the mirrored subreddits.

What you are describing is another part of the plan: Allowing the original Reddit users to take over their mirror accounts on Lemmy. Apparently it just creates accounts for them if no bot exists yet.

Bots on alien.top do that afaik. They impersonate real Reddit users after all.

How do they handle bots? Seems to me this statistic could be heavily inflated. Or do they account for that?

Here is their listing of users per instance, looks a bit sus to me (“Benutzer” means “Users”):

I mean it does, it just can’t yet.

Idk, how many more do you need?

What’s confusing about that? It’s null, just two different kinds with slightly different meanings. Is having two boolean values also confusing?! Should we simplify it?

I mean I can get behind trying to remove null entirely and replacing it with better concepts, but I cannot understand why having one more null value suddenly makes it confusing. You don’t even have to care in 95% of the cases, and it can be useful in the other 5%.

Honestly, it looks more like some kind of misguided purism to me.

So what’s wrong with having two flavors of null?

Shhhhh, bashing Javascript is cool around here.

I personally don’t like the htmx style of coding. It often feels like having to explain what I want to do to someone else using only a limited set of custom words, instead of just doing it myself.

Props for even actively thinking about it, that’s always the first step! If you want to switch to Linux I recommend first switching to apps that run on both Linux and Windows. They exist for almost every use case, and you can migrate gradually app by app.