Got an idea for something? Try building it, see how far you get. Like I had an idea while browsing Twitter last year sometime, that it’d be neat to have a threaded conversation view… So I made a site that used their API to fetch and build the conversation. It didn’t look good, but it was at least somewhat functional, and I learned a bunch.

Then Musk threw their API in the trash, but you know, you can’t control the vagaries of the world…

Heck, by the time we’d know for sure that Lemmy isn’t working out, there’d be no content left on Reddit to go back to.

It’s already much busier here than it was a couple days ago, though; I think we’ll be alright.

Mm, I use(d) Slide personally, which is more-or-less abandonware at this point. I expect that’ll just get its API user disabled by the dev, so it “doesn’t work” any more.