Yep I was a very early developer (software developer) on the platform back in the day. Facebook and Google both stole a lot of what diaspora did with communities/circles and UI. I have not been on it for a very long time. I should take another look.
I want it so bad. I love Firefox but it is fairly slow on my cell. And caching would be a dream.
Just fyi if you like it, you should donate. The project looks very much like a passion project.
Piefed seems to work well but yeah Lemmy still struggles unless the instances have people actively following both at the same time. Kinda confusing unfortunately.
If anyone wants to see it from the horses mouth:
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=photomatt
That’s him.
As a dev, there’s still quite a bit ai can’t do and will most likely not be able to do.
AI is good at solving old problems but it’s not trained on anything new. Its good at boilerplate and templates, but not good at original material. If it gets tremendously better, and really does get to the point where it’s better than we are at development, then the industry will shift into prompt engineering. But I can see a huge reduction of jobs.
It’s not the same but laravel is a neat dev platform as well. Lots of community made libraries and relatively drama free.
There’s automation and you can do it manually if needed. For example I have a couple of emulators that pull every 24 hours from GitHub just in case nint tendo gets a little lawsuit heavy. I also have one offs from GitHub that pull down when I want.
You can also mirror a public repo from GitHub into a private repo so it does not gets indexed/ai trained.