If you're up for it: NixOS!

It's quite a steep learning curve, but after some time (after you've configured your "dream-system") you don't want to go back/switch to any different distro.

Specifically servers IMHO are a great use-case for NixOS. It's usually simpler to configure than a desktop distro, and less of the usual pain points of "dirty" software (like hardcoded dynamic libraries, that exist on most systems (ubuntu as reference) at that path).

I've much less fear maintaining my servers with NixOS because of its declarative functional reproducability and "transactional" upgrade system, than previously (where I've used Debian mostly).

Oh yeah, fuck those loud motorcycles (please just use an electric one, they are superior in almost every way by now (but cost...)). I don't get how these assholes enjoy annoying everyone around them, especially when driving through highly populated areas.

There's a github issue for that: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/506

Well reddit is currently dropping the egg...

Bullschwein Bingo - alle Punkte!

Additionally to what the others already said:

LD50 and "bad for your health" are quite separate things.

Vitamin D for example has an LD50 of ~30mg per kg. So according to your logic, it's way unhealthier than aspartame (factor ~100). Though in reality you would die without vitamin D intake.

Hmm, to be fair, wir leben tatsächlich noch in einer Eiszeit (Vergletscherung ganzjährig, mindestens einer der Pole).

Aber ja, ich stimme zu, ich bin in den Kommentarsektionen nicht mehr gerne unterwegs (um nicht allmählich depressiv zu werden). Kognitive Dissonanz zum Klimawandel wurde und wird erstaunlich erfolgreich lobbyiert. Es ist echt schade, dass nicht viel mehr Menschen (der Mainstream) versuchen sich auf Basis anerkannter wissenschaftlicher Artikel ein Bild zu machen und vor allem entsprechend zu handeln (und sich stattdessen lieber von Politik und Konzernen einlullen lassen).

Yeah totally, the federated features and especially the search could be streamlined quite a bit. I think this should be a top priority currently (to avoid centralization of the instances).

I think we reached a singularity here...

You can almost never say that something is not dangerous, unless it's practically mathematically proven...

This applies especially for food etc.

I think we have to be much more conservative with food and substances we put into it. A lot of (Meta-)meta-studies suggest, that processed food is a health risk.

And this may sound a little bit far-fetched, but I think a good amount of the idiocracy in (especially) the USA may be related to the food (as also a lot of studies have found connections to brain/psychological health).

It's not like it's a finished product. It's a Work in Progress. I'm watching the progress of the project for some time, and it seems for me that the first priority was to get the UX on one instance right (which IMHO makes totally sense). Basic federation support came more recently and will get better, I'm sure of it. Once that is a more smooth experience I think it will organically get more diverse.

I think he has a good point. I'm also more and more questioning my job, to the point that I reduced my my workload by 2.5x, to be able to focus on open source, although I'm now just earning enough to come around. But I'm learning much more, my skill has definitely increased in the last years in which I have focused on using the missing work time for developing open source. I'm having more fun with it: writing in the favorite language, actually relevant stuff, and if your open source contribution has actually a lot of feedback, and is (thankfully) used by a lot of people it certainly feels better than having finished a project in a corporate job. I think the QoL has certainly increased for me.

And I think these kind of people might be attracted to developing something like lemmy, and actually contributing something to society, the anarchistic thought of not being bound to these big centralized social media corporates (that produced quite a lot of bad press themselves the last few years...), and actually serve the community.

Nah that title already holds NixOS

Hmm glaub ich nicht, ich denke man könnte viel ehrlicher und transparenter mit den Bürgern kommunizieren, stattdessen haben wir so etwas wie eine "Bundespressekonferenz" in der vorgekaut nur die halbe Wahrheit kommuniziert wird, und alle 4 Jahre eine Wahl in der ich (böse gesagt) zwischen Pest und Cholera mit einem einfachem Kreuz entscheiden darf.

M.E. ist das (also im Generellen Indirektion, nicht nur die BPK natürlich) der hauptsächliche Grund warum Afd und co. so stark im Aufwind ist. IMHO: je indirekter die Politik, desto mehr züchtet man sich so etwas (und desto instabiler/undemokratischer wird die Demokratie).

Man sieht das Ganze doch wunderbar an z.B. deliberativer Demokratie (momentan vor allem in Form von Bürgerräten (z.B. Klimarat), da gibt's wunderbare Ergebnisse, die wesentlich näher (und effektiver) an dem sind, was der Konsens der Wissenschaft fordert, und gleichzeitig die Bürger viel mehr einbindet und dementsprechend mündigt.

Wenn das Ganze so gestaltet ist, dass der Nährboden von "die Elite/ da oben" langsam entnommen wird, denke ich, dass da viel mehr möglich ist, sowohl was Stabilität der Demokratie, als auch Effektivität und Innovation der politischen Maßnahmen angeht.

Sprich es braucht eine maßgebliche Anpassung der Demokratie an die Moderne (im Sinne bottom-up, deliberativ (Populismus minimierend)).

The post was removed (and the account is non-existing), do you know the reason for this?

Hmm interesting, they seem to be fast then, and it probably confirms a non-auto-removal (of the original account).

One way or the other, it'll take time to be on par with the feature set of the good features of reddit (so everything before Steve Huffman got CEO if I remember right), especially in a federated way.

Also I don't think it's at least currently the goal to get the whole reddit userbase onto lemmy (apart from the obvious technical scaling issues that'll arise). It was just an "unfortunate" consequence of reddits announcements that led to the sudden flush of a lot of reddit users onto lemmy. I think it needs (still) quite some time to get federation and the UX around it right (and I'm talking about basic features like user migration). Two people are just not enough, but few very passionate and idealistic/perfectionistic people will likely achieve quite a bit. Because of the announcement a lot of devs will likely contribute to the lemmy ecosystem (which is actively happening right now, if you'll check the repos). Give it a little bit of time. I think a good maintained open source project can actually progress faster and with higher quality than most of the closed source alternatives (since I'm working in that area, a good example is Blender vs alternatives, which as of now has surpassed quite a few "competitors" with way fewer people developing it). You don't need a lot of money for that (although obviously it would be better, let it just be for infrastructure cost).

Also github issues and PRs (or other similar platforms) actually reflect "addressing the needs" quite well. I myself have experienced it a few times and I'm seeing it in a few user-faced apps and repos a lot: I want one particular feature and it's not implemented yet, so either I open an issue, describing my feature request well, or I start implementing it (if it's either small, or a feature that'll likely everyone wants), and often a lot of people want that feature too (visible e.g. via emojis), I think it's even healthier than this layered view between corporations/operator and the user, as the user has to actively think through the feature, invest more (time) into it (even if it's just opening a feature request issue). It's not as easy as contacting the support, and complaining about things (which issues will likely not be communicated to devs the way it should be). Active collaboration is IMHO quite a good innovative driver.

Right, so basically this means that Lemmy (the company) will only be able to hire employees if they are single, young and in areas with low cost of living. Do you see the problem here?

Yeah but working on an open source anarchistic social media link aggregator, will likely result in exactly these people. I don't see a big problem there, open source is dominated by different kind of people/developers. Compared to "cozy" corporate jobs, the quality of code, in my experience is much more relevant ("code is art").

So it's likely that a lot more idealists, who don't value money that much will work on something like lemmy. And being able to not depend on a corporate job (and being payed for the project you're caring about, also if it's just enough to get around) is a dream for a lot of these people.

When you leave to employers to determine how much you “need”, you get exploited.

The unfortunate reality is, that unless you somehow "force" the user to pay for something, you're likely get way less (money). Open source donators and donations are a fraction of the actual user base, so you have to balance the actual income (by donations) to those people who dedicate a good amount of development time...

No that's very likely not the server, I'm experiencing it too. Maybe I'll check out, if I can help optimize it.

I really hope they'll fix it soon, I want to use wayland for years already, but there are still a lot of small issues, so that I have always gone back to X11 (like weird glitches, or no support for gammastep etc.)