SorteKanin
@SorteKanin@feddit.dk
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 6 days ago:
Oh totally. I just wish Linux had better user experience than it does, cause right now it’s kind of subpar.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 6 days ago:
I’ve tried on Ubuntu, what’s more popular than that
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 6 days ago:
If you disable… needs to be configured… just have to install the packages
And this is exactly the problem. I suppose there might be a way to fix it, but if Windows can just make it work for me, why can’t Linux do the same? All this “Oh you just need to do X and Y” should be unnecessary bullshit.
Also, it’s not that it doesn’t work at all on Linux, but it works sporadically. For instance, when the system goes to sleep and needs to wake up, the screens sometimes turn on, sometimes they don’t and I need to pull the plug and reconnect. This is never necessary on Windows.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week ago:
I’m having it on my Framework laptop - I really was hopeful that it would just work with that :(
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week ago:
… Unless of course you’re trying to connect two external monitors through a docking station with a USB-C into the laptop with a closed lid and disabled inbuilt screen.
Unfortunately, in my experience, Linux routinely fails at this task (tried many different distros) while Windows “just works”.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week ago:
This film gets cooler and cooler the more I hear about it! Really gotta watch it.
- Comment on Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives 2 weeks ago:
“Tech” journalists spend way too much time in the headlines of other outlets, getting a much too shallow idea of the actual tech that they’re supposed to cover. It’s quite sad that this is the state of so-called tech journalism.
- Comment on 2 Instances are being used for coordinated vote manipulation, and should be defederated. chinese.lol lemmy.doesnotexist.club 2 weeks ago:
I’m actually most concerned with the IP leaking
I’m curious, what is it about IP leaking that concerns you? I’ve been thinking about it lately but I have a hard time seeing why it’s a problem.
- Comment on Insurrection act — April 20th. Pls read! 2 weeks ago:
Why is this posted in the fediverse community? I get that you think this is important, but this is an international community and many here have no way to influence American politics. It’s also just off topic.
- Comment on What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
[PieFed] seems to be strongly opinionated about how people should behave and it kinda gives me an icky feeling about its culture
Yea, I get this same feeling. It’s not that I mind that culture or being mindful of how people behave and such - I just don’t think that is the domain of the software to decide. Individual instances can decide that for themselves, but the software shouldn’t influence that kind of thing, I feel.
- Comment on Is it rude to reply using English under posts in a language you can’t speak? 4 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t consider it rude in the Danish communities we have in Feddit.dk, but that’s also cause basically all danes are fluent in English, so it shouldn’t be an issue.
- Comment on I reckon this is the usage distribution of Lemmy servers that we'll end up with. 4 weeks ago:
Thanks. Personally I haven’t been impressed either by the stability and performance of Lemmy. It is what it is I guess.
- Comment on I reckon this is the usage distribution of Lemmy servers that we'll end up with. 4 weeks ago:
It rather abruptly stops at a few thousand users and after that it becomes much harder and more expensive to scale further.
As a fellow Lemmy admin of a smaller instance, do you have any advice? Any resources that might be worth checking out?
- Comment on rust foundation is now on mastodon 4 weeks ago:
Would be cool if they also participated on Lemmy instances sometimes, it is written in Rust after all :)
- Comment on Comments from multiple posts on the same page 5 weeks ago:
Hmm I guess some people might like this but I’d be a bit afraid of mixing different communities just because the same link is posted in them. Different communities might have different rules and different expectations for participation and such. This kind of mixes the different communities together.
Like imagine someone posts a link to an article to !nyheder@feddit.dk (Feddit.dk news community), which is already posted in !world@lemmy.world. If I understand correctly, I’d then see comments from both communities on the same page? But the comments on Feddit.dk will be in Danish and will probably largely be about how the news story affects Denmark, while the comments on lemmy.world will be in English and from a more international perspective. But muddling these things together takes away the “identity” of the community and suddenly you’ll be seeing stuff you maybe won’t want to see (i.e. danish comments for instance if you are not danish).
I think there at least should be a user preference to disable this, and an option for moderators to opt out of this, to avoid the above situation.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 1 month ago:
You can make your own alternatives, that’s the difference. If you think the mods/admins of those comms/instances aren’t doing well, then you could do better yourself. That’s the freedom that the fediverse gives you. You could not do the same on Reddit.
- Comment on Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free 1 month ago:
people good at UX don’t seem to care as much about FOSS and the open web
I’m not sure this is true - at least I have an alternative explanation.
People who do the UX design and all that are rarely invited into the process. Open source projects often look for “maintainers” but this almost exclusively means “developers”.
There’s documentation and contributing guidelines for developers. Where is the same material for product managers or designers?
We don’t get product managers and designers in FOSS because they’ve never been invited.
- Comment on Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free 1 month ago:
The major platforms are convenient.
But the open web offers something better: genuine ownership, community governance, and independence.
This has a kind of underlying connotation that the open web can’t be convenient. This is not true.
It is true that lots of platforms on the fediverse (Lemmy included) don’t have the best user experience and user journey flow. But that’s not how it has to be. We don’t have to accept that as a given.
It’s the same problem that Linux faces, where UX issues aren’t prioritised because the user base is technical enough to deal with the bullshit. We can’t let the same thing occur to the fediverse.
- Comment on Sounds crazy but... maybe you shouldn't delete Facebook just yet 1 month ago:
Very nice thoughts! I think you’re right that organically convincing people IRL is most effective, but getting people over online from Reddit and Facebook is also a part of the solution I think. But definitely not the whole solution.
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 1 month ago:
Tbf the flat buttonless style makes them really easy to clean.
- Comment on Sounds crazy but... maybe you shouldn't delete Facebook just yet 1 month ago:
Wouldn’t it just take one bad actor to start spamming all the other instances with nonsence?
In principle yes, one bad actor could start spamming a lot. But they usually get banned pretty quickly.
If you deferate with the instance the bots are coming from they can just open another, right? Like a DDOS attack
Well, you’d need a new domain so at least you’re forcing the spammer to spend money on a new domain, which probably breaks most of these attempts. Also if the spammers are really bad or posting illegal stuff and they’re registering domains, you could maybe report them to their domain registrar and possibly get them to shut them out or maybe even get law enforcement involved to figure out who registered the domains.
- Comment on Just Because 1 month ago:
Good meme but had to downvote because this has nothing to do with the fediverse.
- Comment on Sounds crazy but... maybe you shouldn't delete Facebook just yet 2 months ago:
You’re doing your part :)
- Comment on Sounds crazy but... maybe you shouldn't delete Facebook just yet 2 months ago:
I may have used Facebook as a bit of a provocative example here… But even on Facebook, there are certain groups that could enjoy the fediverse.
The fediverse should be for everyone.
- Comment on Sounds crazy but... maybe you shouldn't delete Facebook just yet 2 months ago:
Bluesky is not truly decentralized, in the same way that Mastodon is. Bluesky is effectively centralized and is still controlled by an american corporation and could in principle be bought in the same way that Twitter was. Lastly, Bluesky made their own protocol instead of using the already-standard ActivityPub protocol. That’s why a lot of people are skeptical and recommend Mastodon instead.
- Comment on Sounds crazy but... maybe you shouldn't delete Facebook just yet 2 months ago:
I still active on Reddit, Twitter, YouTube and sometimes LinkedIn for work (never used Facebook and Instagram) and I like Lemmy and Mastodon alot but I see no reason to restrict myself to only use Fediverse.
I understand that - hopefully the fediverse can provide a viable alternative for all of those platforms in the future. Right now I don’t think anything like LinkedIn exists on the fediverse, for instance.
why do you guys call Twitter, Xitter?
I think the idea of Xitter is to pronounce is as “shitter”, because Twitter became (more) shit with Elon Musk’s rebranding as X.
- Comment on Sounds crazy but... maybe you shouldn't delete Facebook just yet 2 months ago:
Glad someone guided you back!
- Comment on Sounds crazy but... maybe you shouldn't delete Facebook just yet 2 months ago:
100% fair! Not everyone can muster the will to wander into that hellhole. Some brave few might try :)
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- Comment on Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device? 2 months ago:
m8 literally everyone on the fediverse is an outlier 😅