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mim @ mim @lemmy.sdf.org
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What RSS readers do you use?

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  • +1 for miniflux, has all the features and it's really light.

    I didn't know about news, might give it a look. I've been using Microflux on Android.

    • What is your favorite open source software?

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  • Linux

    • Are you addicted to Lemmy?

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  • Is the Lemmy high just as good? Or is it the Reddit methadone?

    • North Korea fires intercontinental ballistic missile after threatening US

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  • Nice whataboutism you got there.

    I'm not American, so I that's not a burn, in case you were trying.

    Tell me, were those in power for decades, and then passed on their direct rule to their son without an election?

    Did they also create legends about themselves? Really absurd stuff like they don't need to poop?

    • Why do Gezendong-style-tankies support Putin and Xi-Xinpin so much ?

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  • Because they can't go beyond "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" level of logic.

    • North Korea fires intercontinental ballistic missile after threatening US

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  • Kim Il Sung -> Kim Jong Il -> Kim Jong Un

    How is this basically not a monarchy?

    • North Korea fires intercontinental ballistic missile after threatening US

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  • It's an absolutist monarchy with communist aesthetics.

    • Nicaragua Breaks Ground On Housing Construction With Aid From China

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    • MinMon - minimal monitoring and alarming tool

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  • You can always compile it, it's just a single cargo command. 🤷‍♂️

    • My missionary activities are working!

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  • Good to hear that the government is using it.

    Taxpayer-funded activities should run on FOSS when possible, in my opinion.

    • My missionary activities are working!

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  • Wait... Linux desktop is beating Apple in Turkey?

    Do students use Linux in schools, or is there an economic reason (i.e. Apple products are too expensive to buy with the current inflation)?

    • First-time self-hoster here. OS and DNS Questions

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  • Besides what everyone already said, I would emphasize docker. Just take the plunge and learn it. It will make hosting and keeping things organised much easier.

    If you want to go the extra mile, you could have a look into ansible, to make your build reproducible. But it's probably overkill for now. You'd probably take so long to get anything done that you might lose interest.

    • What's your opinion on all the Reddit alternatives?

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  • That looks really cool!

    Never stopped using that UI. It's clean, it's functional, it's responsive, etc.

    For the life of me, I have no idea why people changed. I understand if you never saw it, but to have used it and still decided to migrate, that's beyond me.

    • Lemmy, AITA for disliking copied content from Reddit in the AmITheAsshole community?

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  • A bit off-topic, but AITA is a community I don't mind if it stays on Reddit.

    It's either fake stories, people looking for approval, people who don't mind their own lives, or arm-chair psychologists taking guesses.

    • Do you want Lemmy to become mainstream?

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  • They will if they have a better UX, computational resources, brand recognition, and can sign you up with your current Instagram account. Which seems to be the case.

    Will everyone join? No. I'd rather go back to Reddit than to sign up for it.

    Will the vast majority of people join? Yes.

    The new Threads app had something like 10M users in 7h. The whole of Lemmy is 2M users.

    • How old are you?

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  • Sorry, didn't come to the fediverse to have my data harvested. :^)

    • What is the weirdest area of the Fediverse you have found yourself in so far?

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  • I've ran into some furry stuff on Mastodon while browsing the federated timeline.

    Nothing that an update to my filters and an eye scrubbing didn't solve.

    • Why are people anti Facebook joining the fediverse?

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  • Sorry, but I think you're missing the main point.

    The risk is not to be tracked, the issue is embrace, extend, and extinguish (EEE): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

    They are currently competing with Twitter and Bluesky, they just need users to kickstart their new platform. That's where the fediverse comes in. All Meta has to do is to convince the instances to give them users.

    Meta has a lot of money to throw at UX, they will design a better one than Mastodon. Their instance will also be more reliable (since they have money for lots of computational resources). This will allow them to spread their influence on the fediverse (so that people follow others on Threads), growing up to be the largest instance, and then just defederate from everyone else to “stop spam”. People will then move to Threads so they keep following their friends there (because their friends signed up for meta, since it was all compatible anyway).

    And only then, they will start to harvest data and put ads in front of you.

    • So... are Lemmy users also generally crypto supporters?

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  • Cryptocurrencies are a bit like communism: interesting in theory, but implementations have been a disaster.

    (And with this, I've just been able to piss off 2 groups in one post)

    • Well well 🤨

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  • Never self-hosted Lemmy, but have self-hosted other things in the past. While you don't necessarily need to code, you need a fair amount of code-adjacent skills. If you ever want to get into self-hosting, you should have a look into (at least):

    • the linux command line
    • ssh
    • how ports work
    • VPS providers
    • DNS registrars
    • nginx
    • docker (while you don't need it to host things, it makes your life 10x easier)