Just wanna stop and say open source is cool, neat to see what instances have what interfaces :)

Nice!

Man, that’s depressing, thanks for sharing, that was well worth the read

I think a filesystem is the kind of thing I’d expect to stay in alpha or beta a really long time 😅 I’m not the most technical linux user thought so maybe that is a long time, I dunno

But like Wayland took ages to be usable. I wonder how long btrfs took to get out of unusable early stages…

Edit: I didn’t see that the dev had said its production ready… I don’t really buy that lol 😅

Nice, that’s a huge deal in terms of modern features. I fucking love my fingerprint reader. I don’t wanna type in my very strong password over and over every time I wander away from my laptop 🥲

Yeah, this is definitely a broken corporate system issue rather than a nefarious plot. Google takes down, demonitizes, and issues trikes for all kinds of bogus shit, their system is so incapable of nuance that “nuance” isn’t even the right word anymore. There’s no evil scheme to silence self hosting, just a horrible, miserably dysfunctional content moderation system that regularly trashes peoples livelihoods if it comes anywhere near prohibited topics.

If the mistake causes a big enough problem they cares about, like bad publicity via a large channel complaining, they’ll probably fix it after a whole protracted mess of a situation. But if it doesn’t cause a problem for them it doesn’t get fixed. They just really suck at handling the scale of content they host.

And I might empathize that it’s a hard thing to do, if they weren’t an effective monopoly and a horrible company.

That makes so much more fucking sense, thank you lol

Christ, premium light is still fucking 8 dollars a month and you don’t even get rid of ads. The greed is fucking astounding.

I’ll stick to an adblocker, dickheads.

I’m falling asleep or I’d go grab a link but I believe !webrevival@lemm.ee has a discussion post now, I think I saw it a minute ago

I’ll have to sit down when I have a moment and see if it’s possible to create an account or if there’s an instance up yet!!

Oh nice! I’ve been thinking about migrating for a while but that’s one of the big things I needed to figure out

Though I was kinda thinking about switching over to .ee, which, maybe not the call anymore lol 😅

Lol, no worries. Hope you have a lovely day!

Man, I hope so. There are so many cool historical events that need movie adaptations

By the way, it’s ActivityPub, like activity publication, or public activity :)

Lemmy, piefed, and mbin are all similar pieces of software that run on a server.

They are each capable of hosting a small social network website with a similar reddit-like format. They all also support the activitypub standard, which means that they can be linked together, so that when you go to one of those social media sites (lemmy.world for example) you can see any other site that they’re “federated” with, even if that social media site is powered by a different software that supports activitypub (I’m on lemmy.world but I can see communities and posts from piefed.social)

I generally call lemmy, mbin and piefed “fediverse platforms” because they’re each a platform that you can make a fediverse account on, but that usage is a bit imperfect, since each individual site could also be described as a platform, and is where your account is actually hosted. You could be more specific and call them “fediverse/federated link aggregators” if you wanted to specifically refer to the ones with a similar format to reddit.

These pieces of software are different because they’re built in different ways (different languages and underlying structure), have different priorities, and as software projects are run in different ways with different leadership, all of which is how you get differences in features and implementation. Lemmy is the oldest of these similar platforms, and as such is the most established. In the open source world it’s very easy and common to end up with a lot of fragmented similar projects. Its both a blessing and a curse.

There isn’t perfect language for all these things because in the grand scheme of things, it’s a rather new way for social media platforms to work, so the language around how to describe or refer to these things hasn’t really “settled”

It can federate with lemmy, essentially just being another type of node in the same web of individual websites.

Some of those sites are hosted with lemmy, some are hosted with piefed, some are hosted with mbin.

Each of those (lemmy, piefed, mbin) is a piece of software that can run as a “server” for a social media site, and can use the activitypub protocol to talk to other sites that are federated together making the contents of other sites visible. They can federate regardless of whether the software powering the site is the same or not.

Man, Ukraine has really been on some action movie shit lately, ya love to see it.

Massive respect to iraeli soldiers willing to defy their country. For many (certainly not all) criticising the war and senseless loss of life is an easy thing to just throw out on social media. It’s another thing entirely when it’s your whole country around you, and you’re a member of the military. There’s a reason we see people comit atrocities while “just following orders”- it’s by far the easier path when you’re handed down horrific orders.

I cannot imagine the consequences they might face for this kind of insubordination but it deserves recognition. The killing serves no meaningful purpose.

Yeah it’s really cool hearing the cumulative efforts of folks to collect and organize knowledge across various languages 😊

And it sounds lovely!

Love me some street complete! It’s a great way for me to get out of the house and do stuff even when places are closed, since I’m not awake during the day