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it is really annoying to subscribe to communities on federated servers -- there should be a link that will redirect you to your home server. As of now I seem to have to copy and paste the community address into the URL because the feddit.de community search doesn't seem to be working for me

the thing is, this is an awful strategy for getting people onto a platform. The reason for reddit's success was that there were forums for pretty much anything you could think of centralized in one place.

99.9% of people don't care that much about which app, which instance, which server, whatever, they're just there for the content. The fact that so many reddit users are up in arms about it is a legacy from when it was a much more niche platform than it is today. But in general, this confusing mess of federation, moderation philosophies, defederation, it doesn't matter which instance you choose because they federate, but actually it does matter because some of them don't, a wall of text needed to explain what happens when the mods of two different servers have a disagreement and how the federation protocol works, it's just not a good strategy for getting people onto the platform.

if nothing else, you could make a pretty fun digital treasure hunt or geocaching thing with it

du gehst auf der feddit.de Seite für kbin.social, zB: https://feddit.de/c/linux@kbin.social für die linux community at kbin.social

auch zu empfehlen: feddit.de als home-instance setzen auf lemmyverse.net und von dort aus communities erkunden; dann hat man immer ein direkten Link zu den feddit.de Seite

I'll play devil's advocate here -- I hate Meta, but Meta apps supporting activitypub would be a huge benefit for adding users to the platform.

Like other small social platforms, the fediverse has a fundamental choice to make between quantity and quality. The quality of Reddit took a nosedive in the last 5-6 years as the platform grew. I'm not saying it was always great in "the old days", but recently all of the big subs were just page after page of the same memes, stupid arguments ("it's called soccer! It's called football!") that have been had a million times, and the same jokes.

So the question is -- how much does the fediverse want to grow? The thing keeping me from deleting my Reddit account right now is some of the sports communities there, and things like a local urbanism group from my hometown.

Having Meta apps support activitypub could help establish that kind of userbase. At the same time, the influx of users could drastically reduce the quality of the platform. It's a balance that has to be struck by the community.

The cool thing about the fediverse compared to other platforms is that the structure allows this kind of thing to be decided fairly democratically -- each instance can "vote" by deciding whether to federate or not, and if we all agree we don't want them, everyone can defederate. If we're 50/50 they'll federate with half of the community.

will reddit care that much? posting pictures of steam is still pageviews and engagement, which is really all they care about

I didn't get it either, but this video does a pretty good job explaining why it's different: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMQWirkx5EY

you can do this on debian, too. It's not specific to the OS -- it's the window manager. Specifically, this kind of window manager is called a tiling window manager.

Basically it just organizes your windows slightly differently. Instead of having them floating around like in Windows, Mac, or traditional desktop environments like GNOME, it tiles them -- when you open a new window, it automatically split screens it.

window managers also don't by default have things like a battery display or a wi-fi applet, like your typical desktop environment does -- you have to do that stuff manually by building some sort of status bar (there are various apps that provide status bars).

specifically battery life for my University classes

try undervolting your CPU/GPU. That was the first thing I did when I got my thinkpad and it improved the thermals and battery life significantly.

Naja, genau das war eine die Gründe für der Erfolg von Reddit -- aus gab auf einer Plattform Foren für so ziemlich alles.

Es stimmt schon dass das mit dem Federation die alte Forenkultur ähnelt; das war allerdings eher eine Schwäche von den alten Forenkultur als eine Stärke.

I'm starting to think part of the problem was her needed some kind of mental help if this is how she's getting days off. This is not a healthy mind.

Yeah, I think that's what she's complaining about

This is very cool.

I guess what I am trying to figure out is -- how would the experience of using flatpak or other containerized software managers differ on an immutable system compared to a mutable one?

Or is the idea more that since you're containerizing, you can lock everything else for stability in a way that you couldn't before, because software installs needed to be installed in the system?

NixOS is a bad choice for a new user. EndeavourOS is okay, but arch-based distros (even ones with nice graphical installers) can get overwhelming for a beginner if an update breaks something and you have to figure out why and fix it, which isn't an irregular occurence for me. Wouldn't recommend tumbleweed for similar reasons.

I think the best mix of easy customizability, beginner-friendliness, and stability are probably offered by fedora and mint, personally.

I use manjaro, but it isn't what I would call stable.

The motherboard itself is also open-source: https://github.com/system76/virgo/

I've had vision issues once because I didn't realize the cold brew recipe I'd gotten online brewed a concentrate and not just cold brew and had way too much of it

yeah that's true, even properly permissioned users can break their systems

yeah, it's funny but at the end of the day all reddit cares about are their pageviews, engagement, and active daily users. They don't care whether people are posting "real" pics or john oliver pics, as long as they're posting