Algorithms is a consequence. Most of social medias are profitable, so they want you to be engaged as much as possible. At the beginning of Facebook or even the late Orkut, they were only a simple platform with no algorithm that only shows stuff like a showcase.
But as soon as Facebook starts to make money showing ads, algorithms started to become a thing. But look, it was a social media already.
Also, was Orkut a social media? Cause it was really close from what Reddit/Lemmy is today.
About forums I think there is a subtle difference. Forums are, generally speaking, communities driven with on purpose only, inside another website. For example, we can enter Acer website and go to the forums, which is used to talk about Acer products and support. Any other topic is off-topic, therefore deleted.
When forums are aggregated into a huge platform that can have different communities, with easy to-go click and follow this community, there is no specific topic and you can join any type of content you want with only one account, I call it social media, cause it's different enough from forums and the main purpose is people interacting with each other
as you could argue any site with a comment section is social media.
I disagree with that. If the main purpose of your site is not interaction, so it cannot be a social media. Lemmy, Reddit, Kbin and other platforms like that has the main purpose share of knowledge and interaction between peers
For example, I may have a blog and this blog has a comment section in my posts. However, despite people can interact with each other in the comment section, the main purpose of my blog is post my own content. The interaction between people is secondary and consequence.
But in Lemmy the main purpose is interact. If not enough people participate, Lemmy dies. There is no other reason to use Lemmy other than interact with people.
I miss the point why they don't invested into Flatpak. I mean, with Flatpak they could've focus on make Zed works on the Flatpak platform and, as a consequence, it will be fine in every distro. The only thing that they should've be taking care is X11 and Wayland, but every other aspect to worry such as distro choice, QT/GTK, Gnome/KDE, etc would be vanished away
Movies take too many space in SSD and too many resources to host, therefore I'm not going to host movies I disagree with. And if she really want this movies to be digitalized, I would give her a choice to buy new hardware (probably SSD) to be dedicated to her.
You can delay your updates as long as you need, but make sure to update your arch.keyring first. And never partially update, cause things can go crazy really fast if you partially update.
Also, Arch meet all your criteria. I see no reason to not use it.
You know you can install the Nix Package Manager on any distro and have all Nix repo in your hand, right?
Just verify the iso you downloaded. If the signature is correct, the iso is safe.
You can simply
$ sha256sumthe iso file and verify.But honestly, you're probably safe. I wouldn't be worried in your place.