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If Mastodon is accounted for, maybe also include Peertube? I remember reading that the base project is French, just confirmation may be needed.

If I had a nickel for every time my phone saved me from massive failures in Linux, I'd have 4 nickels. "<.<

Accepting defeat is the quickest way for that. Humanity dealt with much worse already, and though they seem to be trying to be as bad, the push against them from the common citizen and the more reasonable of their peers in power is making momentum to be lost quickly.

If war-themed FFs fit in, and if people accept a 19 y.o. PS2 game as retro, Final Fantasy XII is pretty good, and points for the story going more the infiltration and diplomacy routes instead of protagonists buldozing everything like in previous games.

And on a more classic sense of war, Outlive is pretty good but hard. Also wasn't expecting the units' quotes (at least in the Portuguese dubbing; haven't checked it in English) to be as silly/amusing, but it helps cracking up some smiles here and there.

I think there has never been a proper line separating indies from other games, rather being a loose perception of games made to show what the developer wants. And the impression growing stronger as bigger projects more and more seek to go for the lowest common denominator or go by what who gives the orders demands.

Even if a game is from a bigger company, but the company gave the thumbs up for doing whatever the team wanted, without conditions, handholding, etc., then I'd say the game is indeed independent enough.

Though, on a more negative view, I wonder if Dave the Diver getting nominated was a case of that meme of the older man trying to act as a cool kid.

I consider two things to think Peertube not being sustainable isn't the case.

First, the noise caused bad actors / professional fearmongerers, and people too used to Youtube or that think any social medias would skyrocket in the first month of service, may make people think it's a far more prevalent opinion.

Second, platforms such as Peertube may cather to any movements, be them cultural, political, for business, and so on, while also, due to being based on instances, it much harder to be taken over.

Those two together make me see the project as having great potential, a potential that some may fear intentionally or otherwise.

And on a side note, "the new mobile app" reminds me, anyone could potentially make programs for it, or even integrate Peertube to their own. Another reason for it being able to cather to way more people, I think, as then programs could be made to interests and needs otherwise not found.

Like others said in other responses, Peertube may be a good call. Iirc, there's also a reels-type of federated platforms akin to TikTok too, but I can't remember the name.

Thanks! Also will try to find info on that upcoming one.

Indeed seem to be few to me too. But I wonder elsewhere, like a Japanese Piefed instance and a S. Korean Mastodon instance I found before.

I guess it's safe to assume, then, that you are indeed a forum troll, going by your insistence on deviating the topic towards bickering and how you behave in the other comments. Thanks for confirming and have a good day/night, depending on where you are. =)

Given this has nothing to do with what I said, it sounds like an inversion to try to bait me into losing my cool, a strategy I often saw in trolls in other forums in years past. Still giving the benefit of doubt, while each person has his/her own form of taking and sharing information, I would still suggest considering how what you say could be taken as baiting or other strategies employed by trolls.

I'd suggest to avoid using some many adjectives in so little sentences. Some may take it as a sign that you could be a forum troll trying to cause a fuss for fun, and thus be more defensive around you. And if any here in the comments are "triggered" indeed, they still seem pretty tame in their responses.

Separating the title from the body of the post as I don't think they're directly related:

It would not sound surprising for me if staffers spied on competition to know how they can deal with competition, copy tactics, etc.

Regarding the meme itself, at least imo, having seen cases of what did seem like mass downvotings, the vote/downvote ratio doesn't seem that big.

Besides, two more things. First, some platforms seem to be more prone to mob mentality than others, so if you feel like you're targetted, maybe pay attention to where people are coming from. Second, each platform has their own cultures, so a post more negatived than the usual may simply be a termometer of a given platform's culture.

A given AI has an interpretation of the source materials, not the raw contents to offer. If this AI's interpretation is faulty, or if another, previously overlooked interpretation could be made, it can't be made if the sources are gone and no back ups were made. Also, AI could be tinkered to give biased replies. And also if preserving a given knowledge is entrusted to AI, what to do if it is unplugged?

And unrelated to the AI point, but Reddit had plenty of useful stuff, probably due to being the biggest of its type of social media for a long while. But also it would then suffer from barely any competition, turning it further and further into the decaying platform it now is.

So I stick to my point, I hope it doesn't fall too quickly - useful stuff can still be backed up. And if an user finds something yet to be backed up, I insist he/she does it, be it with Internet Archive, Archive.Today, and/or any others he/she may use.

Though I understand the feeling, I think that, if it must die, that it happens slowly, so people can have plenty of time to back up and/or mirror the useful stuff from there.

Been some years since I last used Fedora, so not able to confirm nor deny anything. Sorry for not being able to help further. =/

Dunno what sort of setup you have, but what I would do, considering my setup and by being a tad on the neurotic side, is to unscrew and detatch any drives but the one to be flashed. This, I think, is the only way to be absolutely sure nothing goes in the wrong place.

If you mean different physical drives, I would suggest detatching the drive with the already installed system when installing the second one.

Also, Linux installers may behave differently from one another, so I would suggest testing on another machine if possible, or at least backing up what you cannot afford to lose in the current machine, shrinking the Windows partition with its native partition manager instead, and picking a system whose installer can spot the correct partitions, maybe e.g. Mint with its option to be installed alongside an already installed system, or Endeavour which, from what I remember, can detect empty partitions.

Also if during install, grub is not set up to have both Linux and Windows as start options, there is a grub manager on Linux too, so that can be salvaged.

And lastly, a word of warning, and reiterating a past point, testing something as big as a dual boot in a computer with sensitive and already existing data is playing with fire.

Tried flashing an USB stick and putting the system ISOs in the stick afterwards?