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There’s a lot of other stuff here too, granted Star Trek is 60% of my feed - but it reminds me of the old internet so I’m content.
What else do you like?
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scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 year ago
robolemmy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Star Trek, Linux, and a smattering of other memes… that’s all I need!
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I can help with 2 out of 3.
Although Lemmy is making me want to get into Linux too…
Jezebelley@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
[deleted]The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I believe Technology is the top active community.
I feel you on gaming though. I try to be active in niche subs for games I’ve played recently, like Armored Core and Baldur’s Gate. The demographic on Lemmy is no doubt perfect for building up gaming communities - I bet a venn diagram of Lemmings and people who you would find at a con is practically a circle. I think we just need to get some more started.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Just gonna go out on a limb and say most cheap tech projects are probably running on some open source code.
You are limiting yourself a little bit by not being at least slightly interested in it.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 year ago
There’s a few specific gaming communities. They’re small, but I can say growing daily. I’m actually a mod of !satisfactory@lemmy.world for example. If one doesn’t exist and you feel up to it, make a community too. I’m sure there are people who are interested. The communities are small, but through nurturing we can grow them up to a nice size.
yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
You need to follow more tags, like game-specific tags and specific tech tags. Sometimes I think federation fails to show all content in the tags, so following more people might help too
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 year ago
Your parents: we’re content creators.
Ludrol@szmer.info 1 year ago
I would say just subscribe to stuff you like and don’t doom scroll for hours. A 15 min session is all you need to catch up for a day in your interests. Also make some posts in stuff you like and care about.
Corgana@startrek.website 1 year ago
Totally. While I do want the Fediverse to grow, I have to admit enjoying that the scroll is not quite endless. It really highlights how much garbage we encounter on a daily basis that exists ourely to distract and entertain us since I don’t really feel like I’m having FOMO or anything but I’m scrolling way less.
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Twitter was designed to be addictive, whereas Mastodon was specifically designed to not be addictive. That’s why scrolling Mastodon feels so boring after a while.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I am subscribed to a shit ton of Linux related communities, but seems like I don’t need to ;D
Fades@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Have you tried installing Linux?
slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Yes, yes. Oh, yes. You must try the Linux.
nexussapphire@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It’s the FOSS equivalent of have you turned it off and on again?
BURN@lemmy.world 1 year ago
These comments are really proving your point
I’m also in the same boat. I’m simply not interested in running Linux as a daily OS, and pretty much any gaming or tech content here is exclusively that. And then when you express any sort of counter opinion you get attacked.
I’m honestly finding myself scrolling Reddit without participating a lot more than I’m on here.
Suoko@feddit.it 1 year ago
Android and ChromeOS are also ignored :-D However, I hope you don’t want to talk about operating systems cause now everybody just talk about AI :-/
jack@monero.town 1 year ago
Android is good. ChromeOS is just normal linux turned against the user
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
[deleted]BURN@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I have used Linux, I use Linux remotely for work all the time. I very much dislike using it as a desktop OS. It’s still not a functioning gaming OS either. However, it’s constantly pushed down your throat on this website whenever you even mention using windows.
infinitepcg@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not sure if you realize it, but you’re exactly proving the point of this thread. It comes of as condescending that you assume someone must be uninformed because they don’t agree with you.
ttmrichter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve used Linux exclusively on my personal machines since 2004. I still loathe it. I just loathe it marginally less than I loathe Windows.
NightAuthor@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve not gotten attacked, I play online multiplayer games and Linux just isn’t an option for my favorite games.
Granted I do want to eventually set up a dual boot setup, but rn my personal computers are either windows or macOS. I’ve talked w people about Linux, and we just agreed it can’t do everything yet.
On Mastodon, I hardly see anything about Linux, but I’ve been curating my feed, subscribing to hashtags and then seeing people pop up saying interesting things, then I check out their feed and maybe follow them. It takes more work than Twitter, but your feed is exactly what you make of it.
Magnetar@feddit.de 1 year ago
Fear not, there are also extreme political discussions.
AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Plus people will hit you with a chair if you don’t use it and Firefox.
NightAuthor@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Firefox has a tab dragging issue that’s existed for 15 years, and it bothers me so much I stopped what I was doing yesterday to look for a solution, ended up setting up the dev environment and got to wrapping my head around the relevant code.
This is not what I want out of my browser.
ask not what your browser can do for you, but what you can do for your browser
Isn’t the ideal sales pitch
Fal@yiffit.net 1 year ago
What’s the issue? And you should be using github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery anyway
ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I can’t tell if you are complaining or just explaining the rules.
XpeeN@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Understandable
lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 1 year ago
For Mastodon, you gotta find the hashtags about the things you care about.
For Lemmy, you gotta put in the work to raise the communities you care about. If there are existing communities, post and comment in them. If there isn’t a community about your interest - and if you’re willing - create and maintain them. The people will come.
I’m all in on the fediverse, and want to watch it flourish.
troyunrau@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
For Lemmy: Go to “all” and sort by New Comments. Find additional communities you like. Subscribe. Comment. Vote. Post. Now your front-page is more for you.
I can’t wait for the weighted algo in the new release, which increases the weighting of posts from smaller communities so they don’t get drowned out. In the meantime, I guess I’ll look at more risa memes ;)
JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 1 year ago
I must be doing something wrong because mastodon.social instance has like max 50 things on a hashtag, no local content, and I can’t find anything interesting browsing “posts.”
Also, you can’t browse any other instances on the app. I have pretty much stopped using it. It’s 80% US politics
r036@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What other federated platforms do you look into? Most of the the reddit communities I use to be a part of are super tiny on lemmy.
lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There’s Pixelfed which is a fediverse alternative to Instagram, but I don’t use it currently as I don’t share my photography online as LCP.
Other than that, there are other fediverse platforms that are basically Mastodon-like or Lemmy-like.
Things are fairly wonky right now, but I believe with time, effort and funding many if not all of the fediverse’s issues can be resolved.
Which Lemmy communities are you a part of that are currently tiny? I can lend a hand in posting/commenting there and keeping them active.
moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Mastodon is also about following the groups about your interests.
gaael@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The world feels very lonely when you care about linux.
wolre@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Feels like we’re both getting the wrong content then. 🙃 I do care about Linux and barely see anything about it here.
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Same. I get a LOT of news because of what’s going on in the world and some tech stuff. Almost none of it is Linux (and I like it).
kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 year ago
and I like it
Get out of here!
Jokes aside… Lemmy has been great for world and tech news! Feels like I don’t need to check my RSS app, or Reddit in order to scratch that itch.
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Don’t know how, it’s in every thread and community regardless of Linux affiliation.
There’s people praising Linux in this thread, about how Linux is everywhere.
This shits gonna kill the fediverse.
Jedi@bolha.forum 1 year ago
I feel there are a lot of philosophical and practical similarities between the FediVerse and the open source operating system world. That’s why a lot of people tend to be on both.
The thing about the FediVerse is that you are the only responsible for your feed. Try looking for different content, different people, or different instances, to find more content that resonates more with you and follow those accounts and communities.
problematicPanther@lemmy.world 1 year ago
when I was on Mastodon, I only saw toots about porn, a few poems, and the scheduled “TOOT!” every minute from that bot that toots every minute.
Jedi@bolha.forum 1 year ago
Perfectly balanced, as everything should be
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Before Lemmy, the last time I had touched Linux was back in the 90s, when it was Red Hat on a dozen+ floppies, minimal GUI, and almost all command line. It wasn’t bad, I just didn’t feel like working that hard and there weren’t all that many training resources for it, so I just slid back into to Mac and Windows. No loss.
But over time thing change, and I’m not much of a Mac user anymore – their hardware is far too overpriced to keep reinvesting in it, IMO – and after aging out of regular updates on the last version of OS X that will run on my 2016 MacBook Pro, and then trying and failing to build a fully operational hackintosh on a newer Intel NUC, I just gave up and went back to Windows.
But now I’m here on Lemmy and it’s all Linux all the time, oh and Microsoft sucks but lets talk about Linux again, which was a bit much at first. But the truth is that I just hate Windows 10 anyway, always have, and am only using it because it’s pretty much the default now. So I guess I started listening.
After a few weeks of this Lemmy non-stop Linux
promotiondiscussion, I decided to load it up on a 13 year old MacBook with minimal hardware and see if it was any better than what I remembered. If that old MacBook can run it, I thought, maybe I’ll just set it up as a spare. It’s free, why not?Man, it screams. This is nothing like the Linux I remember from the 90s. Holy shit. Even setting up a Linux printer from a Windows share is almost effortless, and I have never been able to do that with only Windows machines. These are full-fledged, well-supported, well-documented operating systems with great video, audio and even peripheral support. And almost all free and open source (I haven’t paid for anything yet myself, though). I was shocked.
So now I’m trying out Linux distros one by one, wiping and then loading another, seeing what there is to see, and when I’ve tried out all the distros I want to try, I’ll install one and bring the rest of my hardware over to Linux. And not only that, but hardware that was just sitting on a shelf collecting dust is now back in full service, and I can think about things I would not have spent money on before, like building a Plex server or a pihole, because now I have a bunch of available hardware. Win/win/win.
TL;DR: People are praising Linux for a reason. Tune out if you want, but don’t be surprised if it ends up working on you anyway, lol.
kusivittula@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
I’m so glad I joined lemmy because it made me try out linux too. Haven’t touched my windows partition for months. Used nobara for a while, didn’t play nice with nvidia. Mint has been working almost perfectly.
pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I got my first real start on linux on Mint, too! Really fond memories of using it with the Cinnamon DE.
wild@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Favorite distros so far? For someone who doesn’t want to touch the terminal.
nexussapphire@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Gentoo, you never half to look at a terminal in that distro. Just white text scrolling on a black backdrop for infinity! The people who like to sit through the end credits of a movie would be ecstatic.
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I am absolutely loving Zorin Core as a no-command-line, works out of the box Linux OS.
I don’t mind a bit of command line, but I don’t think I’ve had to open Terminal at all In Zorin, and I’ve had it loaded for about three weeks. Printer installs were painless (HP), and what Windows support there is for Linux is largely built in already. I’m not a gamer, so I couldn’t tell you about that, but so far it’s superb and it has worked for me straight out of the box, everything intuitive and easy to find. There’s also a paid version of Zorin, but I haven’t decided on a distro yet so there’s no point.
Mint (Cinnamon desktop) was fault-free and zippy as hell on minimal hardware, and Pop! OS was also no command line for me, but I didn’t play with it very much and intend to reinstall it when I have more time because I don’t think I gave it a decent shake. (At this point I’m not only looking for distros for myself but also for the BIL, who was all, “This can resurrect old hardware? Tell me more!” so I am making and testing LiveUSBs for both of us. I didn’t want to give him a LiveUSB for something I’d never installed myself so I wiped Pop! OS to give him something else he was interested in at the time.)
I’ve tested over a dozen so far, but those are the most moob-friendly, command-line-free distros I have touched so far, if that helps.
Swarfega@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I tried Linux for years but always have to go to the terminal for something. There’s a reason it’s a default application on every distribution. The CLI can be daunting for the unfamiliar but it’s actually very powerful.
Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It’s actually amazing how far it has come even for someone who mained Linux all the way to where it has gotten. I put all my family oldies that aren’t able to tech support themselves on Kinoite and it was seamless even for my grandparents and I haven’t had to service the computers since. No more complaints about things taking longer than before to load either. I wish I had this 20 years ago.
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Kinoite Fedora? This OS?
I tried Fedora but it was a couple of the built-in spins, KDE and I think maybe GNOME, but not one of the forks. This is the first I’ve heard of Kinoite, looks intriguing. I’ll have to give it a shot. Thanks!
fleabs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve exclusively used Linux on my computers since about 2001. At this point, I don’t care to see this much talk about it either.
It’s an operating system, it’s free (in both senses), it’s very powerful and ,frankly, it’s all I know how to use these days. However, I just don’t see the appeal of harping on about all the time. I use it exclusively, and I spend zero minutes per day actually thinking about it, the way a good operating system should be IMHO.
VoidHeathen@mujico.org 1 year ago
Not to be confrontational with you but… Exhibit A
fleabs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Touche
FaeDrifter@midwest.social 1 year ago
If the 3 biggest OS were all FOSS, I would agree.
Right now, Linux is the ONLY major OS that respects user freedom and privacy. Full stop.
The community around Linux isn’t there because user preference; the real reason it exists and so many people are passionate about it is because FOSS software is the difference between a future that looks like Star Trek, and one that looks like Cyberpunk 2077.
fleabs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Believe me, I get it. 20+ years of advocacy, though, have earned me exactly 1 convert, and that’s my old man. Who is arguably already a bigger geek than I am, and spending his retirement teaching himself x86-64 assembly “for fun” whilst doing a much better job of de-googling himself than I ever have.
All I’m saying here is that I can see where the OP is coming from. There is an awful lot of Linux talk (and Star Trek talk!) here on Lemmy. I can see how it might feel a little alienating to those who are from outside of that world.
That said, I agree with a lot of other commentors here that have pointed out that any new platform typically attracts the geeks firstly (reddit was no different). In time, I hope to see a much greater variety of peoples on Lemmy!
snek@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It kills me that your username is a Windows executable
0x4E4F@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Geeks are usually the first ones that populate any kind of a social network.
But, I would have to agree that I don’t think that the fediverse will become anything more than what it us now - a place for geeks to exchange info and their Linux desktop setups.
This is mostly generalized, but I seriously doubt other communities will get popular on Lemmy, like let’s say DIY audio or something similar. They have a good thing going on reddit, free hosting, no one cares who actually pays the electricity bills, the platform is free (as in beer)… not everyone cares about freedom as much as people on the fediverse do 🤷. I’m sorry, but that’s just how things are.
On the other hand, Lemmy is a perfect place to share info and data that might be illegal in some countries (piracy and sharing pr0n vids that are sold on other sites), so i can see niche things like these thriving here… set up your server at home or in China/Russia… pratically, you’re off the grid regarding copyright claims.
jack@monero.town 1 year ago
You found the solution yourself: Start to care about Linux :')
Diplomjodler@feddit.de 1 year ago
Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour Linus Torvalds?
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
It appeals to more tech literate people, tech literate people choose Linux
It needs more people to have more diversity
samus12345@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Linux is love, Linux is life.
Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
But you have full control on what you subscribe too here? I don’t get it?
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Tbf, it is mostly tech nerds, all of whom enjoy linux and talking about it, you’ve kind of stepped into a “linux bar” so to speak. This isn’t all our fault! Microsoft users on average are less tech proficient and less likely to seek out tech without tracking opting instead to follow the herd because “it’s easy” or it’s just where their friends are, so they’re back on reddit.
Couple this with the fact that privacy focused things and porn were directly targeted by reddits bullshit, means many of the niche subs users just simply caved, instead of coming here, so there’s less people to talk about building gameboys and comics and whatever, to this all we can do is be the change we want to see in the verse, start the community or join the one with 5 users and scream into the void until it starts screaming back!
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Strange, I feel like more than half of the people on Mastodon are openly LGBT.
FollyDolly@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I was annoyed at first by all the Linux content, but honeslty I’ve kinda grown to like it. It feels strangely wholesome somehow.
donio@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I am sorry but this is just completely wrong. Look at the live feed of mastodon.social which will give you an actual sampling of what people talk about and tell me how many Linux related comments do you see among the first 100 or so. I got 2 on my first try and 0 on the second.
I happen to be a long time Linux user but I don’t seek out Linux stuff on Mastodon. My feed is mostly boardgame related stuff, which is what I am here for and what I follow. There is no algorithm so what you get entirely depends on what you follow.
ieightpi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sorry I also have to disagree. Maybe your doing it wrong and are part of the wrong communitoes. I do t do anything Linuztand love the fediverse
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 1 year ago
C/mildlyinfuriating needs renamed to c/fuckmicrosoft
mojo@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I feel the same way about politics
pelya@lemmy.world 1 year ago
On the bright side, look at all the porn!
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just block the Linux communities whenever they pop up, and then you’ll just see everything else
italien@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You’re an early adopter like rest of us. In time more will join, but currently it’s just us nerd (no surprise).
einfach_orangensaft@feddit.de 1 year ago
have u tryed like, starting to care about linux?
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
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tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Honestly, fediverse and my steam deck have me hyped. My next build will be Linux based.
thorbot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
B A S E D
QuantumEyetanglement@lemdro.id 1 year ago
As someone who considers themselves a tech enthusiast (through broad optics- I don’t work in IT or have a tech based job or even know how to code, and has admittedly never used Linux), I spent an hour today trying to install tor on my Chromebook which supports Linux and finally gave up. Unfortunately for the average user, Linux isn’t even close to user-friendly
LinuxSBC@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Chrome OS makes installing Linux applications way more difficult than it is on most other Linux distros.
LinuxSBC@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Chrome OS makes installing Linux applications way more difficult than it is on most other Linux distros.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 year ago
Their username says no.
HKayn@dormi.zone 1 year ago
Have you “tryed like” not forcing your preferred operating system onto every internet stranger you meet?