👍Maximum Derek👍

I did not know that. I’ll give it a look for sure.

I didn’t appreciated the FDroid UX until Google app designers lost their damn minds. Now it makes me feel relief.

This is warning showing why spreading out is important. No one instance being offline should be able to affect so many Motorheads at once.

IMO the best communities serve a niche. Then you get a bunch of like minded members on one server and you end up with a local feed that is likely to be full of personally interesting stuff.

I wonder if we can take the data in that site and see whether or not the fediverse has a “long tail.” Or if the mass migration has consolidated folks into a more traditional bell curve across servers.

The long tail is a concept that applies in a number of ways but I’m most familiar with it from the very very early days of SEO. The idea that the thing you’re interested in (in this case active users) are spread over so many tiny instances that they seem like a small part of the whole when in fact they make up the majority.

I keep thinking we need a way to become our own personal IDPs, then we can have both. But if too many people find the current state of the fediverse confusing we’re never going to get a critical mass of people to manage their own oauth profiles and scopes.

Fellow PopOS user here.

It’s less of a defense and more of a stick to shove in our spokes. We can get bled to death by simple user inertia, it happens all the time. We can see it happening right here in the Fediverse as we speak, where the majority of active users just think of beehaw as “that weird server where people won’t see my replies.”

Threads is an aircraft carrier at full speed and we’re a rowboat being attached to its side whether we like it or not. If we just cut ourselves loose we will be crushed in their wake.

Facebook is the worst non Nestle company out there, but exactly zero corporations can be classified as sheep. If Google starts sniffing around don’t think they’ll be any better.

If the fediverse can’t survive meta it can’t survive. If decentralization’s Achilles heel is corporations then decentralization is not viable strategy in the current world and we should give up on it now.

Threads wasn’t first, and it’s going to be very very far from last. There is no escape from corporate interests in any g7 nation - other than being deemed too small to matter

It’s not easy to source expired carbon fiber and windows rated to 1/3rd of your target depth.

I feel like the considerate people who are able to act like adults are the majority here, and it feels really nice. Thank you all.

This was me back when I disto hopped. Screwing something up was really just an excuse to try something new.

Now I’m I’m in a comfortable rut, but after recently having to set up a new machine from scratch NixOS is starting to look tempting.

There’s a map of subredits and their new homes, seb.rehab. Many are official others are just copies. You can filter the list to just lemmy communities and kbin magazine.

If I still needed to SSH into servers on my phone I’d be all over that.

These are old era internet companies from when it was considered fiscally fine to be unprofitable as long as you were growing. Those days of the internet are over and the last few companies clinging to that model now have to plan their shift toward either profitability or being sold off for parts.

While I don’t think the iphone is over-hyped I’ve started fantasizing about going back to a dumb phone. The LG enV 2 is still the best phone I ever owned.

• replaceable battery that lasted 3 days
• headphone jack
• physical keyboard
• fit in shirt pocket
• no bloatware

The classic way I know of is a large black coffee and a bran muffin. If you can manage to get stuck in traffic about an hour after you eat, it increases the odds of it working.

I’m not only commenting more (because I’m not afraid people will bite my head off for everything I say) I’m also reading a lot more comments in general. I think it’s for the same reason, the comment threads seem to involve actual constructive discourse. It’s funny that I read fewer posts here than I did at Reddit but I spend a lot more time per post.