Their faces omg!!! The void unveils its hunger!

I’ve had cats on churu before. I’ve gone on record on how Churu is basically like fentanyl for them.

tbh the situation with Wayland was not too different, and wouldn’t have been better. Compared to Wayland, brtfs dodged a bullet. Overhyped, oversold, overcrowdsourced, literally years behind the system it was supposed to “replace” when it was thrown into production. To this day, wayland can’t even complete a full desktop session login on my machine.

So, if you ask me, btrfs should *definitively not * have been Wayland! Can you imagine if btrfs had launched on Fedora, and then you formatted your partition as btrfs to install Linux, but the installer could not install into it? “brtfs reports a writer is not available”, says the installer. You go to the forums to ask what’s going on, why the brtfs does not work. The devs of brtfs respond with “oh it’s just a protocol; everyone who wants to write files into our new partition format have to implement a writer themselves”.

But without comments, there’s no “why” anything is good or bad.

Strong truth. But then again, the UX for this is relatively as reduced as the standard usecases allow; if the user can’t bother to click on “reply”, post even a “good.” then click send… come on man, we’re asking for literally two clicks and five keystrokes… if people can’t even do that yet they interact for hours on end on TikTok, then perhaps the problem is not lemmy.

the cats

The voids whence the content shall come!

I see your response here, read it, like it and then think: “Yes I agree, nothing to add”. So I don’t respond, which makes it feel pretty quiet.

On the one hand, upvotes are there. On the other, they’re not really the right took for the job, Lemmy (and the Fediverse in general) needs some sort of “same” / “mood” / “this tbh” tag.

I really love community-driven social media like Reddit. Lemmy feels… too small. I really loved that Reddit let me jump into any niche hobby, and instantly I had a community.

Please note: you only ever had something like that with Reddit when it had already several years of operation. Even today, you can’t jump instantly and find there a community for any niche hobby.

As with all these things: be the change you want to see. Add content, or else it won’t be there when you or someone else comes in.

(There’s also a feel that Lemmy is “small” becaue it’s not only one place and all that)

void main () {}

the Fediverse may be missing a clear, cohesive narrative.

I think this is because it’s not a clear, cohesive place. Developers keep trying to make it look like centralized social media, but I don’t think that’s going to work in the end; it certainly isn’t working now.

So true. It’s impressive and laugh-inducing to me how complainers seem to demand from the Fediverse something that you can’t even get from GRR Martin. And to be intellectually honest, you are not getting it from Facebook Twitter etc because the “narrative” there is a fabrication a fiction. There’s no real thing that has to be coherent there other than branding and fascism.

Thanks for the reminder, there’s a fake-it-till-you-make-it already, as a Firefox extension.

lol, didn’t even notice it when I wrote it. Good catch!

Essentials? Difficult to decide, it depends on why you are even selfhosting in the first place.

At a first glance and looking at my attempt at a homelab:

• some sort of basic web service (eg.: nginx + PHP setup)
• some sort of repo manager service (I do Fossil, but I hear most people use eg.: Gitea)
• XMPP server
• Jellyfin server
• Minetest server

and can even be extended to act as a Unified Push distributor.

wait wait wait wait.

That works? Teach me how!

“Could”, but “won’t”.

Heck, under Trump rule, the US might declare any browser not Chrome as illegal.

Sounds like just repeating an inherent truth to me? You can find toxicity anywhere on the internet that is not tightly regulated by a BDFL. That said, I would not adscribe any undue weight to this kind of statement. It’s like saying sky is blue. Intentions don’t matter, mass of users vs limited work of volunteer admins does.

European service

UK is not even a member of the EU any longer

doesn’t support alphabet for anything other than English

the language of the UK

We ought to improve as humanity so we can deserve Gabe.

Admittedly no idea, given how fascist pretty much everyone is turning these days. If the world was 30% less crazy, Switzerland would be pretty much the best option; nowadays, things are strung so that they just get dropped to the same basket as pretty much the entire rest of the EU.

I’ve always thought that “for humanity” projects should not be restricted by the whims of a self-centered legislation focus, and instead should be able to be put under some sort of “international waters” or “citizen of the world” jurisdiction-esque. Now if Session qualifies for that, I dunno, but it’s definitively a thing that should exist.

You federate with Threads

Nice try, fed.

In what regards what normies would use of the featureset, they are identical tho - pretty much everything is identical these days. Log in, go to your timeline / flood / jeep / whatever, click “post new”, copy-paste a meme, hit toot / blarg / weep / whatever. There. Done.

99% of people use the exact same 1% of the features of a service.

Though maybe that future needs to be delayed, because the Fediverse needs to lose its “yeah our app can do that thing you want, just edit a few variables in the source code”-style github energy.

Self-defeating: that “github energy” is not going to get lost if first not enough people use the Fediverse that having to make that kind of change at the source level becomes a hindrance.