Importantly, they tend to fly private aircraft, which I have recently learned are not as safe as commercial airliners. Commercial flights are subject to countless safety checks and have redundancies for days.

The titan sub failed in part because stockton Rush (I couldn’t think of a more posh name if I tried) assumed the similarly impeccable record of submarines was due to something other than scrupulous safety margins.

This is why I hate Lemmy sometimes. "It's wrong to wish people dead, except for 'them'. 'They' are fare game." It's the same BS we've been doing for the whole history of our miserable species.

Because I like the idea of Lemmy and the fediverse, so I hang on despite its issues.

Yes, but this is just the cherry on top of a steaming turd sundae of other issues I have with Lemmy that I won't rehash again here. It's not like my complaining will change anything anyway.

Compare these reactions to the Ubisoft subreddit, which granted are going to skew fanward. On /r/games the conversation seems to be mixed, with a few dancing on his grave, most expressing dismay at his death while still acknowledging the harm he did to the company and industry as a whole. Plenty of people are simply discussing the dangers of small aircraft.

I get what you're saying but I think your analogy kinda backfired, at least on me specifically. For a good 20 years there was this unused plot of land near me that we played around in as kids, but it eventually got turned into a municipal pocket park, and now instead of just teens smoking there are kids playing on the playground, people playing various sports, jogging and cycling on the track, grilling at the pavilions. I still use it, too, just in a different way from when I was a kid.

But in the above case the community gained tremendously from the change. Reddit going public, especially all the stuff it did to get there like the APIcolypse, is only making the experience worse. That's enshittification. The users give stuff up without getting anything in return. All the extra ads aren't paying for new features, in fact they're taking them away. I would have gone crazy for the JSON (interface? API? IDK the correct term) but didn't know it existed until the announcement that they killed it a few days ago. They also got rid of private messages and (really petty IMO) subscriber counts on the old site.

it works in the browser but I keep getting 403's when trying with cURL or Python requests or Powershell. My usual goto of spoofing my browser's user agent in the header doesn't work either.

Since you're just sharing things within a small group, I think it's safe to give out your IP or a domain pointing to it. However, you need to put your services behind a DMZ. Make a separate VLAN on your network and put the Pis behind it. Make sure traffic from your private LAN can enter the DMZ but nothing from the DMZ can go to your LAN unless it's return traffic for a session started in your LAN. If a machine in your DMZ is compromised, it shouldn't affect your LAN.

Yes. Exhibit A (Not a ban but along the same lines):

I get the impression that Reddit is a sinking ship, but it's a sinking cruise ship compared to the small fishing boat that is the threadiverse, so I've resigned myself to occupying both spaces for now. Re: banning. I'm pretty sure I was banned manually. Though see the cross post of my OP in Fedibridge. I was auto-filtered before I tweaked the post to pass.

Yes, I realize it was a non sequitur, and I'm sorry. But it was kinda the straw that broke the camel's back. Quoting from a comment I left on the original reddit post:

Honestly the militant Linux stuff is what really gets me. I'm legally blind, and rely on various assistive technologies like screen readers and magnifiers that simply do not exist on Linux or aren't fit for use. I've been trying Linux on and off for sixteen years now. Mostly various *buntus but also things like CentOS (RIP) and Arch^btw^. Accessibility has only gotten worse with the transition from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3 and from X to Wayland. It's nonexistent on KDE. A11Y is an afterthought even for billion dollar companies with the resources to devote to it, so I'm pessimistic that a loosely organized group of devs all working independently on their own little corners of the larger project that is desktop Linux will ever measure up to even that afterthought. But whenever I say that I've repeatedly tried Linux in good faith for over a decade and a half, that I will continue doing so, and that I envy those whose needs are met by Linux and other FOSS software but I simply can't switch, I get downvoted to oblivion and told I'm the problem.

Here's the Commonthroat article on FrathWiki that goes over the Romanization.

https://www.frathwiki.com/Commonthroat

Color isn't linguistically meaningful. I colored the consonants differently to make them stand out, and because I like the aesthetic.

Yinrih do a lot of writing using their natural ink, which only comes in dark blue.

Yeah, technical niches are what dragged me back to Reddit. I've been struggling with a very specific issue at work for months. The entire time I was like "You know you couldjust ask on the right subreddit and get an answer in 5 minutes." But no. I stubbornly refused to make a new account. Two weeks ago I caved. Made an account and asked my question. Got an answer in 5 minutes.

The fediverse simply can't achieve that depth of community knowledge if it refuses to let "normies" in.

So do I. I wouldn't be complaining about its problems if I didn't want it to get better. I think it needs three things to succeed. First I think is better messaging. We need to be crystal clear that you have to be your own algorithm, which is what most of the responses here and on the original reddit thread were saying. This starts by picking an instance that you vibe with, then aggressively filtering out the rage. Second (and possibly most controversial) is better moderation, especially on communities that cast a wide net. I know I pick on mildlyinteresting, but it really is a microcosm of what's wrong with Lemmy. I think a lot of mods are either reluctant to come off as too strict, or just happy their comm has content at all, so noting gets regulated. Good moderation will help communities develop a distinct culture and identity instead of being slightly differently flavored rage factories. The third thing is a larger more diverse user base, which can only exist if the first two things are taken care of. If only Tankies hang out on Lemmy, than the Pokemon or metalworking communities are just slightly differently themed Tankie communities.

nodeBB is a classic forum platform that has threaded comments. It also uses ActivityPub. Of all the federated platforms I think I'd prefer nodeBB if not for how comparatively small it is. It predates the popularization of AP and only added it a few years ago so whether it's part of the fediverse or not I suppose is up for debate.

👆 This

It goes back to what I said earlier, that yes you can do what you need to if you're willing to put in the effort. But I don't want to have to build a hammer every time I need to drive in a nail, even if I know how to build that hammer. I want to grab an already working hammer from my toolbox.

I think its no accident that the majority of desktop Linux users are software devs. Using Linux at home in a way serves as job credentials, because you have to be intimately familiar with the OS in a way that Windows and (especially) Mac users don't have to be just to get by.

My latest (and so far longest) streak of daily driving Linux was with Mint. The bluetooth worked perfectly out of the box for the first time... and then never again. My headphones would simply never pair, and my Wacom tablet and xbox controller would constantly connect and disconnect, causing popups every time it did, and no amount of terminal magic seemed to solve the problem. Of course that's not what pushed me back to Windows, as always that honor goes to the lack of a usable screen reader and magnifier.

Linux works great as a server precisely because you're supposed to know what you're doing, but a consumer-facing OS is supposed to be fool proof.

it’s partially a symptom of the reddit-like structure of voting

Voting is a cancer upon social media. It was extra bad on Reddit because you had a cumulative karma score that was just begging to be farmed, and it's only slightly less bad on Lemmy because there's no global karma here. Voting encourages echo chambers because the top stuff is stuff that the majority likes and contrary opinions get buried. It also creates a Mathew effect by ensuring posts that are already popular get even more visibility.

It's also terrible because IMO it promotes social media addiction. It's way too easy to tie your self esteem to a number. Modern reddit is banking on this hard. Between the time I left in 2023 and returned a few weeks ago, they started sending you notifications every time your post or comment hits certain upvote milestones.

There's exactly one legitimate use for voting systems IMO and that's in practical or technical Q&A spaces (think Stack Exchange) where there are definitive right or best answers. Voting in this case allows people unfamiliar with the topic to zero in on what's good advice vs what's nonsense.

Physically collocating servers in a DC will cost $$$ compared to self hosting. Quickly checking a service near me, space for a 1U server costs $99 per month. Currently my VPS is $5 per month. I'm sure there are massive performance gains to be had with collocation, but what are you hosting that you'd need to take advantage of them?

I have a setup more or less identical to what you describe. The VPS only hosts a reverse proxy that takes care of certificates and forwards incoming traffic through a wireguard tunnel. The actual host is behind a DMZ, and the VPS can only access hosts on the DMZ.

Good to know.

You've hit the nail on the head. Lemmy seems to have 3 types of communities: rage factories, ghost towns, and comms where one desperate user keeps spamming stuff hoping in vein other interested people will join the conversation.

To a large extent I am that desperate spammy user on !worldbuilding@lemmy.world. Look at !foxes@lemmy.world. Despite having over 2K subs it's the same two users posting. !NiceMemes@sopuli.xyz: 3K subs, same user (incidentally one of the same two users from /c/foxes).