Adding headers and some other minor requirements is slower than not. That’s really the difference, it’s not complicated.

This server is just a piece of software that accepts and responds to TCP sockets. It could be anything, but you’re not consuming more CPU power by doing less work.

The http protocol requires you prepend every message with a bunch of headers and for them to have a static size. (tho plenty of apps allow you to bend the rules quite a bit)

After switching to a websocket, none of that applies. You can just dump data straight into the TCP socket. Or TLS stream that goes into the TCP socket. But that would be same for the http requests

I’ve implemented it myself, down to the encoding and buffer management.

It’s a really simple back and forth first, but after that it’s just dumping arbitrary binary data through the socket

Wait, why would you not use a websocket for this?

I didn’t even think of that. I’d have to find the time but I could make that feature for myself.

Thank you!

Welp, glad I avoided that

This isn’t about a mailing list with hundreds of members, this is about a dm. And not wanting to see it.

Is that so complicated?

(even emails let you delete m on your end)

Congrats, I already said I agreed with that. Still doesn’t excuse negligence, and we shouldn’t allow that behaviour completely unchecked

Except this isn’t email, is it? This platform isn’t copying all content to all other instances.

And even then, still not an excuse to be negligent.

I do always assume any content I put out is out there forever.

This argument “other people do it wrong, and it can’t be guaranteed perfect” is not a good excuse to be negligent with people’s data.

Perhaps it’s worth joining an EU instance in case this creeps me out too much. I’d like to be able to use my right to be forgotten

oh wow, this platform really is not well put together. Let’s hope that with the attention it’s getting there might be some investment in better planning of the features on here

tbf, I’d still rather be here than reddit

Can they not just fine him already and reinvest the cash into the country

I love it

Because trickle down economics has been shown to work, right?