Finally installed F-Droid
shrugal @ shrugal @lemm.ee Posts 2Comments 525Joined 2 yr. ago
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I'm very happy with Synology C2. They have special integrations for their NAS devices ofc, but they also offer general purpose backup storage.
I think it's perfectly fine to upload larger files somewhere else and share just the link. They don't try to be your go-to file hoster.
Do you think that the content is only valuable if you can interact with it?
I specifically didn't say that. Interaction is the obvious part in a human vs bot debate, but to me it also makes a difference if a human decided to post something somewhere, or if a bot is copying it without the human's consent. And I said that that's the reason why I come to Lemmy, if I'd just wanted content I'd use an automated news aggregator instead.
Should we just forget about books because it doesn’t have a comment section?
We are talking about social media here, nothing in what I said applies to or takes away from books.
That can only possibly be true [...]
Just pointing out that you're trying to argue away my personal experience. I specifically didn't say that this is a general rule, I said it's how I experience it. But judging by other posts and the feedback to my post I'm not alone with this.
This is the same type of gatekeeping [...]
This is by definition not gatekeeping, because I'm not trying to keep anybody out. People can come here for whatever reason as far as I'm concerned. What we are talking about here is changing things to try to attract people, because that is what you're doing. Big difference.
I haven’t been able to implement the solution as fast I’d like [...]
That's why I suggested to you a few weeks ago that you keep it small until you ironed out the kinks, idk if you remember. Experiments like yours are completely fine imo, as long as you make sure they don't negatively affect the wider Lemmy community. But what you've been doing could be described as a full-scale bot attack on the Fediverse, and an excuse like that just doesn't cut it in that case.
But if you know that the post is from a bot who potentially will become a real user (by migrating through the fediverser portal) and that one of the reasons to make it more compelling to them is by having content here that is not available elsewhere, why not write anyway?
Because my reason for being here - as I said in the beginning - is not to help you with your project! I come here to interact with real humans right now. What you are doing is deputize other Lemmy users for your plan, even if that means making their experience here worse. They didn't sign up for this, apparently many even disagree with it like I do, but you just don't seem to care or at least accept it as a necessary sacrifice on their part!
It helps if you stop thinking about them as “bots” [...]
I'm sorry, but you can't shit in my mouth and tell me "It helps if you stop thinking about it as shit, instead think of it as chocolate cake". Idk what fantasy world you managed to argue yourself into, but they are bots right now! As I said, it doesn't matter that they are impersonating real humans, if anything it makes it even worse. And I don't share your blind optimism for this project of yours, so that doesn't change things either.
[...] alien.top has reached top 5 in status count in less than two months.
Because you are faking statistics with bots! Please get this in your head for gods sake! I can create an instance with 100000000 fake users and posts with the push of a button, that doesn't create any real user engagement or value.
If alien.top ever becomes minimally popular, it will be the people on LW that will be in the minority and they will be the ones missing out on content, not the other way around.
What kind of f*cked up plan is that? You're fine with becoming as popular as LW and splitting the majority Lemmy community in two? Do you actually read what you write? And if this keeps going I don't think LW will be the only instance.
I’ve already disabled the bots.
Good!
but if alien.top gets burned because of some stigma associated with them, I can create another fediverser instance
Idk how many people already signed up on this instance, but I take it they are just thrown under the bus in that case?!
I hope that it doesn’t get to that point, but if I have to sacrifice alien.top in order to keep the idea of fediverser and the topic-based instances intact, I will.
You mean just the reddit-lemmy community matching? That actually sounds like a useful service, I don't think anybody has a problem with that.
My opinion on it is pretty simple:
- I'm here to read posts by and talk to humans, and a post made by a human somewhere else and copied over by a bot without said human's knowledge or consent is not "made by a human" anymore as far as I'm concerned.
- I don't f*cking care about the size of the Fediverse above a certain threshold, and we have reached that imo. There are great posts and discussions here already, so it's fine if it attracts more people and it's fine if it doesn't. The important bit imo is that the people who join do so because they understand and care about the platform's goals and ethos, not just because it has the biggest potential audience.
- Communities mainly populated by bots feel like grotesque ghost towns. Answering a post and later realizing it was made by a bot makes you feel tricked and deceived. Your posts being copied to another social network by a bot impersonating you feels cheap and desperate, and like your rights are being seriously violated (which is probably the case)! This all could very well give Lemmy the bad rep of being the "fake bot social network".
- On the big plan behind it, who the hell would want to or should take over a Lemmy account from an instance that's widely known to be populated by bots, maybe even blocked or defederated for that reason?! That's pretty much the worst entrance to the Fediverse you could have, almost guaranteeing a bad experience from the get go!
So by all means advertise Lemmy outside of the Fediverse, but don't fill it with bot content just to make it look like one of the big social networks on first glance. Imo it will do much more harm than good, because you alienate the people already here and you give it a bad rep in the outside world.
Most routers are actually small PCs, just optimized for the specific purpose of connecting to the internet over a phone or TV line, providing a separate internal network in your home and bridging the two. But you could do that with any regular PC with the right hardware.
Your ISP could also just provide you with a standard network connection, so you don't have to use a modem to transmit data over a line that was originally built for a different purpose. This is not very common since most houses still predate the internet, but it might become the norm at some point.
The main benefit of having a separate network is that devices in it are not directly visible and accessible from outside. All others see is your router, and they can only access your devices if you establish the connection first or manually forward ports. You can also structure the local network however you like (e.g. assign IPs and domain names, create subnets), without being restricted by or affecting the outside world.
What comment?
How to build a Temporal Flux Compressor for FTL travel. It's really easy if you know how, but we just can't figure it out!
That's why it feels so cozy here.
Freelancer
Transport Tycoon
The Guild (Europa 1400)
Empire Earth
Anno 1602 + 1503
Monkey Island
Heroes of Might and Magic 3+
Pokemon
C&C Generals
Stronghold
Star Wars Jedi Knight
Battlefield 1942 Desert Combat + Vietnam
World of Warcraft
There are some topics where this sorting mechanism is the only one that will give you good comments, like asking for unpopular or controversial opinions. 1000 people will get upvoted because they post things that aren't unpopular at all, and the few comments that are actually worth discussing get just as many down as up votes.
How much are you willing to bet? I give a hint, there is an open issue from 2016 on their GitHub about supporting the manufacturer of my mouse. And that's pretty much the point, because on Windows I just get the software with the box and that's it. Of course it's closed source and stuff, but it still provides a better experience than no support at all. And that's just one example, Linux also can't use the highest available resolution of my webcam, and the fingerprint reader on my laptop has been completely unusable on Linux from day one.
Immutable distros fix most boot issues, in the sense that you can undo a failed change, but that's about it.
Ofc Windows has its fair share of issues, but it just doesn't break as much in my experience. Probably because they have orders of magnitude more people working on finding and fixing consumer issues, incl. from 3rd party device and software manufacturers.
I'm sorry, but you're lying to yourself if you think consumer support is on par with Windows. It's getting closer and closer every year, but we are not there yet.
"The vast majority" is useless if the hardware someone has doesn't work, and you usually don't get official support and warranty from the manufacturer for Linux. There are also some categories like webcams, audio equipment or fingerprint readers where Linux support is still notoriously bad. And even if something mostly works, it's fairly common for some hardware to have missing features, instabilities or minor issues on Linux. E.g. my mouse works on Linux ofc, but the software to set and edit profiles doesn't.
Usability issues are mostly cases where you have to fall back to the terminal. An example from my experience would be that trying to upgrade the system from the app store fails half the time, so I have to use the terminal. Another would be a failed boot or graphics issues due to a broken Nvidia driver installation or messed up SELinux policies. It's all fixable in the terminal, but good luck if you can't use that.
The answer is probably yes, if you download movies or shows somewhat regularly.
Together with Overseerr they can reduce the process of finding, downloading and organizing releases to just one click in a Netflix-like interface.They can also keep looking for better versions of your existing stuff and upgrade it automatically in the background. And there is Bazarr to automatically fetch missing subtitles.
I had also heard of them but waited a long time to finally check them out, and I wish I'd done the switch much sooner! It takes a bit to configure everything to your liking, but it saves soooo much time now and does things I would never have bothered to do by hand, like upgrading pretty much my entire library.
That's how I use it right now for my personal library, just browsing Overseer from time to time and marking movies and shows I want to watch at some point. There are predefined lists for popular or upcoming releases, and it also has a very powerful filter system. I think you do have to have the appropriate *arr app installed to be able to mark and request things, but not 100% sure on that.
I'm all for Linux and have been using it for years, but saying a 15min install is the only downside is disingenuous. For many people there are a few programs they rely on that won't work on Linux, and hardware support and general user-friendliness are still not quite where they should be.
It's like multiple reddit sites, but they all work the same and the content and users are synced between them. So you can pick any one of them, follow topics and contact users from all of them, and if one site goes haywire we just ignore or block it and move on.
Twitch will probably be even harder.
Droid-ify: Same functionality as F-Droid, same repos etc, but with a much nicer UI.
Xtra: Alternative client for Twitch with support for blocking ads.
LibreTube: Native Android client for the alternative YT frontend Piped.