It’s mostly to maintain the structure of a comment tree in my best guess. It’d be strange if a comment under your comment just bumped up the tree to being a reply to the person you were replying to.

Continuing to show your username on the deleted comment is a UX design choice that I understand and sympathise with questioning but it’s kind of irrelevant when you think about how ActivityPub and the Fediverse works.

Basically, even if Lemmy did hide your username, any ActivityPub server connected to any instance connected to your instance will have received that comment and you clicking “delete” is basically just asking everyone (possibly hundreds of servers) to please delete it. A server lagging behind on syncronisation, a server modified to discard delete requests (maybe for archival purposes) or even one that just pretends to delete comments for malicious purposes will still have that data

I guess a TL;DR would be that it’s a UX choice but kind of an ant hill compared to the mountain that is the Fediverse. It’s not a bad thing but it’s definitely a trade off you should keep in mind

Also your upvotes and downvotes are also public

And the whole US if we’re lucky

I don’t know if you mean me but I’m a guy from Ottawa and it’s nice to see you too!

These sorts of AIs have been used for a long while before the whole LLM chat bot-style AI shit show we’re seeing now and they’re genuinely a good thing

Thank you for the writeup! I wasn’t actually familiar with the C4 project structure and it’s cool that Mbin went with thay. I do remember Ernest and how that went down but I was curious about the Monero-pimping stuff. I was digging a bit but I couldn’t find any information on that point

but the guy who was mostly responsible for it is a bit of a twat and mostly used it to pimp Monero

Oh damn, I missed that bit if fedi drama. Is there a writeup of what happened anywhere?

Go mainly. fmt has some functions to do the same sort of formatting but I loved the minimal syntax in Python. JavaScript has a really nice syntax for it as well actually

F-strings and .format() are two features I miss from Python whenever I’m writing stuff in another language. The syntax is just so minimal yet powerful

Yeah not really sure what the OP comment is implying. Like as if doctors are taking the piss with their recommendations rather than them being the best choice based on the science available at that time

Saaame. I created an account on the new Piefed but I’ll only fully switch over once Voyager supports it. I’ll be sad to lose my two year user history on Lemmy.ca though :(. I wish account migrations that kept comment/post history and account age were supported

I remember seeing this on Reddit way back and apparently it’s from a weird religious organization with little scientific backing

American?

I haven’t heard about any of that drama since the early days when things were still getting sorted out