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~~There is no indication whatsoever that @SleeplessOne1917 is the same person as @cannotsleep420~~. Jesus, people, stop pissing yourselves for the literal 30 seconds it took to fact check this bullshit claim.
*edit: I took the liberty of finding the actual dev's account: /u/[email protected]. It took a whole additional minute. You're welcome
*edit 2: /u/NOT_[email protected] has some links below that do indeed link /u/[email protected] to /u/[email protected]. Soooo, while I don't regret my nearly infinite capacity for skepticism, but it looks like this story has some legs. Hat tip to NOT_RICK, who is adamantly not Rick.
You might want to reinvestigate. @cannotsleep420 is the one that made those comments and they are a dev.
The post then lists comments from /u/[email protected], however the text over the name is SleeplessOne (without the number on the end). This account is also on lemmygrad, the lemmy devs' main accounts are on lemmy.ml. Do you have anything to verify that they're the same person, or that they are another dev? Because I see no "CannotSleep420" mentioned on the github page. The main two are actually /u/[email protected] and /u/[email protected].
Next you'll be telling me that Hollywood actress Margot Robbie also moderates round these parts.
Edit: They probably are the same person.
You can look up my other comment for more examples, but this one is the most clear:
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/750810
They may not be the same person, although I suspect they are as the lemmy.ml account isn’t active, but either way 420 is at a minimum a contributor
They "contributed to the project", that doesn't mean they have any authority over lemmy development, as the top of the post is suggesting. "Contributing to the project" could mean just about anything.
While I wouldn't completely discount the possibility that they are the same person, this post provides no evidence of that. HOWEVER, this comment suggests they might well be!!
@[email protected] you might be interested in that.
I understand that. @cannotsleep420 is still in that Lemmy update thread mentioning development to-dos.
Feel free to share that thread link. In the meantime, here's the actual dev account: /u/[email protected]. And their selfless unpaid work removing pedos from find-lemmy: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/3630011
Yeah they don’t use that account. It’s pretty clear to me they’re active on their lemmygrad account over the lemmy.ml one.
Here they are mentioning dev work:
https://lemmy.ml/comment/4413706
https://lemmy.ml/comment/4569805
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/750810
I deleted my previous response as it was a bit dickish. I stand corrected, this is pretty strong evidence.
All good, I’ve gone after people too hard too (got a mean comment deleted yesterday in fact, I was definitely wrong). It’s good to have scruples
It's a little too easy to be mean on the internet. Human nature, I guess, when you can't see who you're talking to.
@SleeplessOne1917 seems to be their GitHub handle. You can see this by going to one of the pull requests that are linked in the thread (e.g instance block feature)
@cannotsleep420 seems to be their lemmy handle. You can see this by going to the thread link the OP posted, in which that account is commenting about the UI tweaks.
Both accounts list their location as 'Burgerland'(?) so they're most likely the same dev. Plus the 'SleeplessOne1917' lemmy handle you linked has absolutely no activity.
You can also see @cannotsleep420 crossposting earlier lemmy changelogs that mention @SleeplessOne1917...
FYI, you can make an instance agnostic link just by typing /u/[email protected].
Doesn't work for me. @[email protected] does though
Nice tip, thank you. Still fumbling my way around...
No worries. A couple other things:
/c/community@instanceand@community@instancewill work for communities./u/user@instanceis instance agnostic but will not generate a mention to the user's inbox.[linktext](http://instance/u/user)will link to the user's instance only, but it sends a mention to them. You can also do this by starting to type@user@instanceand selecting the user from the dropdown box (on the website, not necessarily in apps).http://instance/post/123456@hostinstancein everywhere but the federated host instance. But it's all still in early development.