The “complicated aspects” are the central idea of the platform as a whole. The concept of multiple servers united by a single protocol is not that hard, and any user not being able to grasp something as elementary as that would not make a good community member. Call me a snob, elitist, whatever. Lemmy is not a commercial project and has no YoY growth projections or sharholders demaning growth at all costs, and I would like it to remain so.
Yes, but isn’t it a bit unfair (not to mention hardly enforcable) to demand of new instances not to host certain communities because the already exist on instance xyz? Even on Reddit there were spin-off communities due to powertripping mods. So far the most likely solution seems to be topic clustering, which we can probably expect in some future update.
I really don’t understand the hostility towards nerd/tech oriented communities. Every time an online community dares to be on the nerdy side you get people loudly proclaiming how that’s the worst thing ever, and that we need to expand until every Tom, Dick and Harry has a user acount.
Usually, when a site is adopted by the general public, the quality of the posted content goes down the toilet. Bots, shills and intrusive advertising follows, and the site dies a slow death. Reddit’s r/all was a museum of ragebait, reposts and celebrity gossip, and I certainly don’t want Lemmy to do an enshittification speedrun because some users refuse to learn how the fediverse functions.
Once again, this is a feature, not a bug. Two different servers, two different communities, united by a common communication protocol. This is what separates Lemmy from other Reddit clones, and what made it thrive, unlike non-federated sites who are either splintered and languishing, or attracting an unsavory audience.
Spray all over your family for one last time.
Why do Lemmy instances automatically federade with every other instance? Wouldn’t be more wise to add instances manually, from a list?
Holy moly, the cookie tracker list on that site is longer than my arm! And I hate how deceptive is the “accept all” button - it implies it means "accept all settings, rather than “accept all tracking software”.
As for the article itself, the author presumes (or is being intentionally deceptive) that FLOSS is unsupported, and completely omits Canonical.
The only valid reason i agree is “don’t use FLOSS if it doesn’t support your hardware” but that probably means that you’re using highly specific hardware, or are suffering from vendor lock-in and should phase out the proprieatry hardware whenever possible.
Oh look, it’s almost as Meta is an untrustrworthy actor that plans to EEE the fediverse. I consider any instance that federates with Meta a lost cause, to be defederated as well.
Thunderbird is a pretty decent client, and OSS to boot!
At this point, you will either try to mitigate the harm caused by proprieatry software by adding as many Open source programs to your MS system, or treat the underlying cause and install a FOSS OS.
Ah yes, lies on how North Korea is a stalinist hellhole and not a workers paradise, right?
At this point you might as well design an app that is 100% ads and give the users a cut of the ad revenue.
Dramatic writing with philosophical conundrums > Pew pews
The first couple of seasons were great, it was interesting to see the allmighty federation as an underdog, and captain Archer as a sly trickster trying to one up a technologically superior opponent.
Then they went with the temporal war shenanigans and I quickly lost interest.
Don’t see the problem here, this looks like a normal cup of coffee.
Nothing annoys me more than powergamers giving out unsolicited advice. Play what you want to play, barring DM veto.
Error: Arch logo detected, coolness not found.
And then there’s me, who copy pastes terminal commands from the net without checking them :3
You should visir neocities, it is filled with all sorts of weird and fun websites.
The lack of working hardware acceleration is mostly NVDIAs fault for not providing open sourcr drivers, and the community’s effort at reverse engineering the GPUs has been nothing less than Herculean. As for codecs, Fedora is derived from Red Hat, which is an enterprize distro and does not include (proprieatry) codecs to avoid licencing issues. Every problem you have listed is a result of corporate fuckery and not of Linux.
As for tech support, with Microsoft you can click the “diagnose” button, which does nothing, or spend a lovely time with an outsorced call Center which again, does not solve the problem.