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- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 2 weeks ago:
Looks like I’ll be checking that out.
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 2 weeks ago:
We all have limits. For some communicating with those who tolerate genocide is alright, for others using their software is fine, and for even others they will happily give money to them à la “it’s not me, so why should I care?”. But if the number of people who don’t care is not enough to sustain that software development, it will have an effect. We can wait to see if we get that far or do something about it.
I’ll check out Piefed and Mbin as that seems to be most common answer here.
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 2 weeks ago:
I write opensource software, I donate to opensource, I use opensource. I however can’t do everything. That is why the question is “we” not “hey @gerowen@piefed.social why don’t you make a fork, you lazy bastard”. Code is not the only way to contribute to a project and I’m willing to donate to lemmy alternatives while it is still possible for me.
Piefed might be where I start donating. Gotta check it out first.
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 2 weeks ago:
OK, let’s say somebody who hates you to the core and wants to see you dead made software you found great. All they said was stuff like “I think your kind deserves to be shot”, “your kind are subhuman”, “they hung your kind and I see nothing wrong with that”.
Would you use their software? Would you enjoy being part of the numbers that they use to validate getting money, maybe even power? Would you publicly promote their software? Would you get others to use it? Would you even donate to them? Would you get others to donate to them?
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 2 weeks ago:
I’ll check it out. Thanks.
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 2 weeks ago:
OK, thanks. I guess I’ll be migrating to those and setting up a donation - if they don’t use Github sponsors.
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 2 weeks ago:
Usually it is as this point things turn to shit in opensource/community/fediverse/cooperative. The devs are not the product.
What does this even mean? Who creates something doesn’t matter at all? If that’s the case, then using Microshaft products doesn’t matter, does it? They can provide the infra and software for bombing Gaza but who cares right? They make software that is worth using so we should keep giving them money. No problem.
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 2 weeks ago:
It will become a problem for us if lemmy isn’t funded, won’t it?
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- Comment on Mbin v1.9.0 release (stable) 3 weeks ago:
Had no idea, thank you!
- Comment on Mbin v1.9.0 release (stable) 3 weeks ago:
Do Lemmy and PieFed support transferring subscriptions?
- Comment on WhatsApp will become interoperable with other messaging apps thanks to the DMA’s crackdown on Big Tech. 5 weeks ago:
I doubt it. Most likely complying without complying. Then they dont put their monopoly in jeopardy. If people found out they could use any other app to communicate with WhatsApp users, then WhatsApp would have to actually compete on features and not “use it because everybody else does”.
Being able to check off the box of interoperability without actually interoperating with a competitor is just a trick in my eyes. I hope the EU commission sees it that way too. Given how they want to placate the US though and the concessions they have been making, I won’t hold my breath.
- Comment on WhatsApp will become interoperable with other messaging apps thanks to the DMA’s crackdown on Big Tech. 5 weeks ago:
It won’t be interoperable with anything people use, making it only theoretically interoperable. Wake me up once I can use it with Jami or Matrix.
- Comment on Reminder, you can subscribe/comment/like Peertube channels from PieFed 5 weeks ago:
Why has Lemmy had such problems with this and piefed, the new kid on the block, just makes it work? I’ve been subscribed to the linux experiment since I joined and it simply doesn’t work. The last video I see here is from 2 years ago.
- Comment on Looking for a PeerTube instance that actually accepts new users 1 month ago:
Wich ones did you apply to? Just so that we don’t recommend the same ones you’ve tried…
- Comment on European parliament calls for social media ban on under-16s 1 month ago:
Yes, fight the symptoms by invading everybody’s privacy instead of educating people and legislating against Facebook, reddit, and others.
This is the Christian way: the system isn’t the problem, you are the problem. Addicted to drugs? Weak willed! Fat? Weak willed! Sick? God’s plan, deal with it! Uneducated? WeAkWiLlEd!
- Comment on The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal 1 month ago:
Probably the activists didn’t vet access.
- Comment on Firefox is Getting a New AI Browsing Mode 1 month ago:
Mozilla needs to die and be reborn under the wing of better management and community drive, because they seem to have been captured by money hungry fucks. They dont give a shit about opensource. It’s just a pipe through which they can get Google money.
- Comment on Firefox is Getting a New AI Browsing Mode 1 month ago:
Probably LibreWolf.
- Comment on Is there a formalized ban appeal process for the fediverse? Do I just direct message a mod? 1 month ago:
@Zoomboingding@lemmy.world, @JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world is right. You stumbled onto an extremely hot topic on the fediverse. Blahaj is extremely sensitive to it, that just how the community is.
If they dont want your identity (the current account you are using), just create a new one and use that one to learn their ways and become a good member of their community.
However, and I’m saying this out of completeness not because I actually believe this is what you want, if you just want to debate their points and break their rules knowingly, please don’t. Just accept that they have different preferences than you do. Life is too short to willingly spend time where you aren’t wanted.
- Comment on Another chance for JPEG XL? PDF will support format as 'preferred solution' 1 month ago:
Once you mentioned AVIF, I found it “FLIF”, but JPEG-XL is an extension thereof.
- Comment on Another chance for JPEG XL? PDF will support format as 'preferred solution' 1 month ago:
Is this the right format? I thought there was an alternative with better compression and it was opensource and without royalties.
- Comment on Popular Windows 11 requirements bypass app Flyoobe 2.0 is out with big UI overhaul 1 month ago:
The amount of effort people have to go through to get windows 11 on their computers, they might as well just install linux.
- Comment on Fediverse Report – #141 - Bonfire Social launches with crowdfunder, and Mastodon has quote posts now 1 month ago:
The Twits got their way and now mastodon will be a bonfire.
- Comment on Nvidia's Jensen Huang: 'China is going to win the AI race,' 2 months ago:
AGI is the finish line, for them and humanity.
- Comment on $96.5 million for Nadella | Microsoft's CEO receives record pay in a year that saw 15,000+ layoffs 2 months ago:
We should support wealth taxes. We should be screaming about them to politicians and anybody who will listen non-stop. So what if he earns 96M? If they were taxed adequately, it wouldn’t matter, but it isn’t. He’s going to buy a bunch of assets that won’t be taxed at all and hoard it to make more: that is the bigger problem.
Tax his wealth so that taxing his income won’t matter. That will wipe that grin off his face.
- Comment on I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though. 2 months ago:
You can test it in a virtual machine like virtualbox or virt-manager. Then you can get a good feel for it.
- Comment on I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though. 2 months ago:
c stands for community. I didn’t know on which server it is but it’s on lemmyworld !selfhosted@lemmy.world
- Comment on I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though. 2 months ago:
Yunohost is probably more secure than you figuring everything out yourself. More people have a vested interest in keeping it secure. They have a minimal page on security but they have fail2ban, unattended upgrades,and a secure SSH configuration. If something is discovered, you might be vulnerable but at least there will be knowledgeable people fixing it.
Security is always difficult and nothing is 100% secure. The three letter agencies around the world have been hacked and they are in the business of hacking others. Hackers themselves get hacked on the regular. Using yunohost as a noon probably reduces the chance of you getting hacked.
- Comment on I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though. 2 months ago:
256 GB of RAM? Wow. And game servers too? If that’s small, them I don’t know what you consider big…
Anyway, proxmox does fit your scenario well. Separating your hosted services into VMs or containers makes a lot of sense. And a few game servers also have installations specific to different distros, so instead of fumbling about with your specific distro, just creating a VM with the distro you need is way easier.