FYI, this was considered fairly recently, and the end-result was:

Will re-open if anyone wants to work on this, but its way out of scope for us.

Comment buried the lede:

We will be enabling federation after redirecting chapo.chat, hexbear.chat, etc. to hexbear.net

Edit to add: chapo.chat is currently broken, which may confuse users who’d been told not to go to hexbear.net anymore.

$ curl -I --no-progress-meter https://hexbear.chat/ 2>&1 | head -n1
curl: (60) SSL: no alternative certificate subject name matches target host name 'hexbear.chat'
$ curl -skI https://hexbear.chat/ | head -n1
HTTP/2 502 
$

Indeed, dropping the old API would be the breaking change.

Rich Hickey did a fantastic talk on versioning, breaking changes, and dependencies.

A lot of these should not be called breaking changes. A new API is not a breaking change if the old API remains.

I don’t think this person is looking to hack on, or even host their own service. I think they’re looking for a not very expensive turnkey SaaS.

You seem to be conflating browser technology (Chrome, Chromium, Blink, Gecko, etc.) and search engine technology, but they are unrelated technologies. I can’t imagine what your mental model for these technologies might be to create this conflation. Their only relationship to each other is that search engines are accessed via web browsers, and that web browsers often (but not always) embed a widget for calling search engines.

I suspect that the cancerous “appification of the web” has reached an advanced stage where people don’t know how to distinguish between client and server.

Discredited by academics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory#Academic_studies_and_criticism

The only Adults in the Room are we Enlightened Centrists.

(for example, see nomenklatura)

We have nomencultura at home, in the Professional Managerial Class: the college educated labor aristocracy that serves the capitalist class.

This is the result of a century of communist/socialist purges and of cold war propaganda in the US. Most Burgerstanians haven’t known their asses from their elbows politically for generations.

Leftists are socialists. Liberals are not socialists, they are liberals. Liberalism is founded on the right to private property, otherwise known as private ownership of the means of production, while socialists call for the abolition of private property (not to be confused with personal property).

There appears to be a lack of “centrist”

“Progressive” liberals in fact the centrists—they’re center-left at best—and there are plenty of them here.

right-wing voices (and I don’t mean extreme MAGA-type views, but rather more moderate conservative positions)

These people are liberals as well, but because they usually break Lemmy’s code of conduct regarding various bigotries, they get usually quickly the boot.

non-political

Everything social is political, and the fediverse is social media.

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Mr. Dessalines and Principal Nutomic were in the closet making 19.4 and I used one of the pre-releases and the pre-release gave me Havana Syndrome and made me into a Manchurian Candidate!

Looks like someone’s been squatting on @POTUS@lemmy.world & @Potus@lemmy.ml since last year.

I’m not going to take the time to dispel your presumptions nor explain myself, my motivations, or this Lemmy instance. I’ll just say that I’m not convening a grand jury trial and constitutional convention because one new user (who on first impression is giving Western chauvinism vibes) had one negative interaction with one Global South socialist who has been here over four times longer than me.

Edit to add: Again, please note that this is not an explicitly socialist instance. I won’t elaborate as to why, but it’s no more by accident than the explicitly socialist ones. What is lemmy.ml?

Okay, let me know how this passive-aggressive pressure tactic works out, person who just just got here. I’ve given you my answer.

He’s gotten some temporary bans as well as post/comment removals. Omega_haxor is right about hexbear: it’s explicitly socialist, unlike lemmy.ml, and it’s even more explicitly supportive / aggressively protective of the trans community. Several of the largest instances have defederated from hexbear, so for better or worse, access is more limited.