Yeah companies try to be fancy with these JavaScript heavy applications using React when sites work perfectly fine without all that stuff.
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Right, and what's even as bizarre to me (as an engineer) is that they're bots posing as people.
That's arguably the most deceptive and malicious way to use a bot on a site meant for real people.
But they'll quickly block any helpful bots anyone else tries to integrate on the platform.
"Our bad bots good, your good bots bad". What a crazy world we live in.
Is there an open source blogging platform like Medium or Substack I could publish to without self-hosting?
GitHub - sv1sjp/lemmy-rss-pybot: Lemmy RSS PyBot is a powerful Python bot that reads RSS feeds and posts new articles to your favorite Lemmy communities.
Why do two lines of text ignore spacing unless more than one line is between them and how to not make it happen?
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This is so true. It costs more money for the server power required for something like that to be pulled off.
There's a comment in this thread going all crazy complaining about it being costly to host anything on the protocol to stop Bluesky from dominating it and everything. But im like "uhh yeah, servers and storage costs money".
It's just so weird how everyone thinks hosting popular sites should be free.