I literally cannot browse the web anymore without HoverZoom+

No they don’t? 🤔 I’m pretty sure they did once, but right now I am able to upload images with no account. Just dragging the file into the browser window works.

You’d be surprised how much critical infrastructure was implemented through trial and error and has just been left like that for years…

All the more reason that federation is necessary in modern social media.

Wait, how is the GDPR applicable here? I thought the GDPR was just about data protection…

As a mod I’ve been considering this, but with the amount of moderators and communities that have been banned for attempting to steer their users to alternatives, it’s simply not worth the risk. For now, I’ve just linked visitors to our Discord server instead, and people should be able to find the Lemmy and Raddle alternatives there if they wish to.

The entire type and class system is basically taken from Haskell

That doesn’t necessarily invalidate the point they’re making. Other forms of analysis, strikingly, provide pretty much completely equivalent results.