Max-P @ Max_P @lemmy.max-p.me

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Yeah the best campaigns I've seen for the Fediverse were reactionary to something happening on big socials: Lemmy when the API fiasco happened, Mastodon when Elon bought Twitter, recently Pixelfed to replace Instagram, and Loops the last 2 weeks before TikTok was about to get banned.

People don't change because it's better, they change because they're pissed off at their current platform.

Good luck with "exhaustive" because people have different unique reasons to come to the fediverse. It would be a very long list.

For the average user I'd approach it with points that affects everyone:

• We can't have a Twitter-style take over
• We can't have a Reddit API disaster
• It's distributed so while parts of the fediverse come and go, you'll never lose the platform as a whole.
• It's distributed geographically so one hostile country can't silence information from other countries like Facebook and Twitter are doing.
• No algorithms designed to keep you scrolling forever
• No ads or commercial content being pushed by the algorithm
• Loads of choices for instances and moderation style for everyone's taste.
• Users get to choose how they want to browse and with which apps: you're not stuck with the latest crappy redesign you hate. You'll never be forced to have reels and stories in your feed if you don't want that.
• Not controlled by big corporations like Meta and Google, but rather the community for the community.
• If you have sensitive communities you can own the servers to ensure it's survival in situations where Facebook would immediately ban that page/group.
• No bullshit AI products shoved in your face like Grok or Reddit Answers.
• You as a user are in control of what you see and don't see.
• No advertiser friendly content policies forcing you to use stupid words like "unalive", "pewpew", "corn" or algorithmic downprioritization because you swore.
• If you prefer to browse Instagram-like, you still get to see Twitter-like post, and you friends can see your photos from a Twitter-like interface. Or you can have a Twitter-like interface and interact with Reddit-like posts on Lemmy.

It's harder to onboard and figure out by the common people but it would be the final platform switch. You may move instances over time but you will never be left looking for a new platform because the old one enshittified. You just move to an instance that hasn't, done.

There hasn't been a history of behaviour resembling that of the ideals of Nazis from Felix, especially not enough to say that he partakes in those ideologies. Thankfully his "dark humour " phase ended years ago and he isn't doing these things anymore, so completely estranging him from anything for it is quite extreme, especially when I have seem some of this sentiment on Lemmy myself. Nor do I think he's a horrible person for edgy comments and actions that most of us have definitely done one way or another on the Internet.

That. He would have started YouTube at 20 and the guy is now 35. That would have happened when he was 28.

People change, people learn. That one in particular hit him hard and probably led to a lot of self reflection and all that stuff.

We have actual nazis to deal with that actually think it's a good idea. There's a huge difference between a bad dark joke and actually supporting facism. How one responds after such an incident matters a lot.

Meanwhile Elon did a literal nazi salute and isn't even denying it nor apologizing and doubling down on it.

I had my share of hitler jokes, but they were told on a context when it was seen as poking fun at a solved issue of the past in a very progressive area, when nobody thought we'd be dumb enough to witness facism ever again. Context and meaning are both very important before labeling someone for life.

You'll need to write an extension to get access to scripting and hotkeys which will then allow you to do that.

It might be easier to do with KWin since it's got pretty good scripting out of the box and good documentation about it, but should be doable on Gnome too.

Not with the way the protocol is designed, no. Content is pushed to other instances by basically sending the event to every subscribers, so it inherently requires some kind of active subscription to receive content. And thus the bots.

Technically, ActivityPub would support a system of private communities and profiles, where the remote user have to accept your subscription/follow first, so it makes more sense seen that way why it's not just broadcasting everything to everyone. Lemmy doesn't support that and makes all content visible to everyone, so each instance really only needs one bot user to subscribe to every community it can find, and it shows up in everyone's All feed which many use to discover content. And thus the bot subscriptions, one per instance that runs one of those.

On my small private instance it also makes sense I only receive content which I'm subscribed to, it makes my storage requirements much smaller and reduces the overall load for everyone by only federating what is necessary.

A simple workaround though would be for those bot users to have a special flag on them where instances can ignore them from the count to get a more accurate number, but it's pretty low on the priority list. Plus when you have 1k, 5k, 10k subscribers, those 50-100 bot users stop being meaningful anyway.

It does work with plain VGA still, it'll even use 32 CPU cores to render that. It is still pretty slow though, slower than RDP into the same VM even.

The old stuff just runs great for a minimal bootstrap environment. It's there, might as well use it instead of designing a stripped down Windows 11 UI just for the installer.

It's all there in the final install too, if you kill dwm you'll get those same Vista decorations (and broken modern apps).

While they do use Windows PE for modern versions of Windows, it still often looks like the previous version. Windows 8 all the way to pre-24H2 Windows 11 have Windows Vista basic decorations in the installer, like they basically never updated the installer environment.

Dude's got some balls downvoting all your comments on a thread calling them out for doing that. Gonna make the LW admin's job easy.

Real user with many comments close to a hundred upvotes, although also a decent chunk of removed comments as well.

The one user went way further back than 12h, I'm seeing it well into 3 weeks. That user hasn't downvoted this thread yet.

In the last 12 hours, this whole thread is the only thing on your profile that doesn't have at least 3 downvotes, most much more than that. There's only one repeat user across your entire profile, although you do have all your comments generally downvoted by the same users within a thread which isn't super unexpected.

Yes, admins can see all the votes.

You're kind of a downvote collector so it wasn't easy, but I didn't actually see all that much brigading. Seeing some repeat usernames and one occurrence that looks like someone did go through your profile and downvote most comments about a certain topic once, but that's all I could find. Most set of downvotes are confined to a given post.

You're really just getting downvoted a lot by a lot of different people. Your downvotes on this post have nothing in common with your other downvotes.

EDIT: Nevermind, there is indeed 2 people downvoting every comment from OP.

It does, I wrote it in corrupted text for a reason, but if you want something functional you can use it and then see how it set it up for you and still go set up the rest of the services yourself.

When I switched to Arch, it used the Arch Install Framework, that predates even pacstrap, and I still learned a fair bit. Although the now normal pacstrap really doesn't hide how the bootstrapping works which is really nice especially for learning.

Point is mostly if OP is too terried they can test the waters with archinstall (ideally in a VM).

I DONT want to build a system from the ground up, which I expect to be a common suggestion.

Arch kind of is building from the ground up, but without all the compiling and stuff. It's really not as hard as it sounds especially if you use a̶r̴c̷h̴i̵n̵s̴t̷a̶l̷l̵ and you do get the experience of learning how it all fits together through the great ArchWiki.

That said one can learn a lot even on Debian/Ubuntu/Pop_OS. I graduated to Arch after I felt like apt was more in my way than convenient and kept breaking on me so I was itching for a more reliable distro. But for stuff like managing systemd services and messing with Wayland, definitely doable on a Debian/Ubuntu/Pop distro. Just use the terminal more really, and it'll come slowly through exposure.

They don't even run their own index anyway, they rely on other search engines too. Kinda like how DuckDuckGo uses Bing under the hood.

So you might as well use SearX anyway, same thing.

I think we're still deeply into the "shove it everywhere we can" hype era of AI and it'll eventually die down a bit, as it with any new major technological leap. The same fears and thoughts were present when computers came along, then affordable home computers, and affordable Internet access.

AI can be useful it used correctly but right now we're trying to put it everywhere for rather dubious gains. I've seen coworkers mess with AI until it generates the right code for much longer than it would take to hand write it.

I've seen it being used quite successfully in the tech support field, because an AI is perfectly good at asking the customer if they've tried turning it off and then back on again, and make sure it's plugged in. People would hate it I'm sure on principle, but the amount of repetitive "the user can't figure out something super basic" is very common in tech support and would let them focus a lot of their time on actual problems. It's actually smarter than many T1 techs I've worked with, because at least the AI won't sent the Windows instructions to a Mac user and then accuse them of not wanting to try the troubleshooting steps (yes, I've actually seen that happen). But you'll still need humans for anything that's not a canned answer or known issue.

One big problem is when the AI won't work can be somewhat unpredictable especially if you're not yourself fairly knowledgeable of how the AIs actually work. So something you think would normally take you say 4 hours and you expect done in 2 with AI might end up being an 8h task anyway. It's the eternal layoff/hires cycle in tech: oh we have React Native now, we can just have the web team do the mobile apps and fire the iOS and Android teams. And then they end up hiring another iOS and Android team because it's a pain in the ass to maintain and make work anyway and you still need the special knowledge.

We're still quite some ways out from being able to remove the human pilot in front. It's easy to miss how much an experienced worker implicitly guides the AI the right direction. "Rewrite this with the XYZ algorithm" still needs the human worker to have experience with it and enough knowledge to know it's the better solution. Putting inexperienced people at the helm with AI works for a while but eventually it's gonna be a massive clusterfuck only the best will be able to undo. It's still just going to be a useful tool to have for a while.

It works so well, if you stretch a window across more than one monitors of different refresh rates, it'll be able to vsync to all of them at once. I'm not sure if it'll VRR across multiple monitors at once, but it's definitely possible. Fullscreen on a single monitor definitely VRRs properly.

With my 60+144+60 setup and glxgears stretched across all of them, the framerate locks to something between like 215-235 as the monitors go in and out of sync with eachother, and none of them have any skips or tears. Some games get a little bit confused if the timing logic is tied to frame rate, but triple monitor Minecraft works great apart from the lack of FOV correction for the side monitors.

This is compositor dependent but I think most of the big compositors these days have it figured out. I'm on the latest KDE release with KWin.

It works perfectly, I have a 60Hz, 144Hz VRR HDR, and 60Hz.

This is one of the use cases where Wayland shines compared to Xorg.

Then use Voyager, or Tesseract, or Photon. All 3 are usable as plain webapps and have decent mobile experience.

This is the privacy community, not the piracy one.

You might want !piracy@lemmy.ml

Now is not the fucking time to give governments unlimited access to user data. If the UK has it, the US will have it too.