Kichae

So many great things listed as negatives :(

RSS is back. Forums are back. It's brilliant. Now I just need Musk and Zuck and Bezos to be no longer relevant to anybody's lives.

It's a lot for an average donor, though. "Huge" is not in relationship to the project's needs. It's in relationship to what the donor thinks is a lot of money or not.

How do you find someone on Instagram if you are not an Instagram user?

How do you find something on Mazda Forum if you are on Reddit?

How you find something on AVForums if you are on AVS Forum?

The fediverse has way, way, way more in common with the Internet of 2005 than it does with the Internet of 2025. You have to act more like it's 20 years ago.

Pixelfed not a centralized service. It's a web engine. It's something that lets you host your own photo sharing website. If you want to syndicate stuff from someone else's website, you need to find it on their website first. Fediverse websites just let you do the syndicating by automated request.

To initiate the syndication request, you take the post/user's original URL, paste it into your website's search bar, and then hit enter. It will request and fetch that content, creating a local copy for you. From there, you can follow the person who originally posted it, creating an auto-syndication relationship.

True. But we are not the open source community. And the fediverse is not inherently open source by nature. ActivityPub is designed to be used by anyone.

Single topic forums are still doing ok out there on the wider Internet. Create more well moderated, single-topic, federated forums, and then promote those specifically to users who care about those topics.

Don't sell Lemmy to end users. Lemmy is a solution for admins. Sell the specific websites to end users.

Misskey's probably the most polished feeling, though under the hood it's apparently a total mess.

I'd be surprised. They've actually been federating for months now. Maybe they've seen a rush of signups kicking the tires, and that's expanded the firehose?

I did this a few months ago. I haven't found replacements for everything, but I've found that it's really come down to my not actually using those things very much in the first place, so I haven't had to do the work.

When I look, I find something that works. What are you still looking for?

I find the array of installation options a little overwhelming or intimidating sometimes. If I can just do the equivalent of apt-get, that's, of course, easy enough. But sometimes things are just realeased as tar balls, and I have to go and look up WTF I'm supposed to do each time. Nothing comes up often enough for me to internalize it.

I do find myself chafing against just the fundamental differences of the *nix environment from the DOS-based heritage of Windows. And I find it difficult to get help with certain things sometimes because the installed user/developer base isn't super interested in supporting different modes of interaction ("just use the terminal, it's so much faster [for me]" is a common refrain that makes me want to get stabby). But 99% of the time, it's been smooth sailing.

At this stage, if you have drivers for everything, and there's nothing mission critical that's still tied to Windows, the best advice I can give you is to copy your important files over from your Windows partition, and then dump it. If you have a 2nd computer, leave that one running Windows for now. The duel booting can make it tempting to just reboot into Windows "just for this one thing", and stay there until you next have to restart.

Ok, which one of you goobers killed the website?

"How dare there be an active world in my murder hobo wankfest?"

Most people have no idea about the fetish circles and the languaged used in relation to them. They recoil at "fediverse" not because of sex association, but because it's a really lame sounding name.