Hey folks, article author here. First of all: I didn't submit it to HN.
As few people pointed out, this article was written in 2023 and it's intentionally focused just on pricing – I planned a follow up about accuracy and other aspects, but Superface pivoted away from multi-provider API abstractions and I was laid off.
So for me this is more of a time capsule of what Superface used to be about. I'm glad if you found the article still useful and the discussion here is really informative, but I won't be updating the article any further. Thanks for understanding!
The difference is that Truth Social never intended to federate, while Gab was defederated and isolated by the community. You can still federate with Gab if you own your server.
Yeah, of course you're right. I just meant that Gab is also just a Mastodon instance, what people might not know.
I should've been more precise in my previous comment.
These abstract metalanguages are still somewhat limited by the underlying base of HTML and CSS. Some things simply can't be accomplished with CSS, no matter how many SASS macros you write (e.g. reparent an element), or you'll just end up with lot of code to do tasks which would be simple with HSS.
I believe that point of AXR is to replace this underlying base, with something more suitable for web applications. You could still use a metalanguage on top of it (maybe with some tweaking) - you can write XML using HAML anyway.
Sorry about that. It's not fully fleshed out yet. Are you interested in helping us figure out how to make the reparenting syntax as nice as possible? If so, I think the mailing list would be the best place for that... :)
You can have separate addresses (accounts) for every transaction, which makes tracking much harder (not impossible). Oh, you can also launder your bitcoins. :-)
See https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Anonymity
The 3 columns are #ababab on #ffffff in Chrome, in other words a 33% difference in brightness. For primary body text of regular or thin width, a lot of readers are uncomfortable below 50%.
np, it's visible on my display just trying to be helpful based on past experience with others and seeing the initial comment. Part of what might actually be happening is that after seeing the header for each of the 3 columns, the eye sight jumps to the links at the bottom of the columns because it is higher contrast than the body text, and then the visual focus can't help but leaking further down into the "Oh ma" footer which also has higher contrast than the column body text, and then for each column the reader has to make a more concentrated effort to go back and focus on what that important content said. Whereas on the IE6 site, the body text of each column is actually higher contrast than its header and link footer rather than lower. So I think they got that annoying feeling you get when you have to reread a page of a book.
