@alyx what is fedi like

@Nonetrix
Fedi is Conflux for sure.

@Nonetrix
And in case you never played the game, Conflux is a conglomeration of creatures put together, that were never meant to actually be in a town (let alone in the same town). It literally wasn't even meant to exist, it's just something that was stitched together at the last moment.

@Nonetrix @alyx just fire everywhere

@alyx some people like it I've never used it I think they where selled to WordPress or something wreid

@alyx what is WordPress anyway I hear people complain about it a lot

@Nonetrix
WordPress is THE blogging platform. If you want to blog, WordPress is the default choice.
As for Tumblr, yeah, Verizon had them and sold to WordPress. Had to search it cause I forgot what happened.

@alyx @Nonetrix yuck, wordpress

@pasture @alyx whats so bad about it I've never used it

@Nonetrix @pasture
I think it's probably more of a userbase problem than the platform itself.

@Nonetrix @pasture @alyx
- php
- people bastardize every aspect of it, there are uncountable plugins, you can essentially turn it into whatever you want, forum? bbpress. shop? woocommerce. nextcloud substitute? been there, done that.
- have I mentioned php?

tbf idk honestly, it works, it's foss, my guess is just php bad, therefor wordpress bad

@nekojanai @Nonetrix @pasture
I find it so hilarious that these days the meme is "php bad" when 10-15 years ago it was the thing to learn if you wanted to make a decent website. How fast things change.

@alyx @nekojanai @pasture doesn't Facebook use it

@Nonetrix @pasture @nekojanai
Well yeah, cause Facebook was made exactly when php was the popular thing to use.

@alyx @pasture @nekojanai does it still?

@Nonetrix @pasture @nekojanai
Probably. It would be a too massive undertaking to completely overhaul a site like that. And the risk of breaking it would be too large for them.

@Nonetrix @alyx @nekojanai @pasture Large parts have been rewritten in Hack, which is sort of Facebook's compiled PHP replacement. I don't think they've completely shaken off the dependency still

@allison @alyx @nekojanai @pasture facebonk

@alyx @Nonetrix @pasture @nekojanai people say modern php is good

@alyx @Nonetrix @pasture
this, tbh.

@alyx @nekojanai @Nonetrix @pasture

Php is still very useful and powerful; but most niggers don’t need that sort of speed that you can achieve with php; and it’s hard to sanitize and shit for a newcomer

@nekojanai @Nonetrix @alyx @pasture
So basically it's like mIRC.