Kirk

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[โ€“] Kirk@startrek.website 3 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

This is explaining the difference between Calibre and Calibre-Web.

The person you replied to asked what the connection is between "Calibre-Web" and "Calibre-Web Automated"

[โ€“] Kirk@startrek.website 20 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Lemmy and Piefed are much more 1:1 reddit replacements. Mbin is it's own thing, which is very high quality, but has less out of the box appeal to someone looking for "fediverse reddit".

[โ€“] Kirk@startrek.website 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

What's going on? Why does this offtopic comment have 14 upvotes and no upvotes?

EDIT: Dead internet theory here in full force. This post is about Lemmy. The only thing that has to do with Substack is the example post that OP highlighted to demonstrate issues with Lemmy federation. And yet the top comment (and replies to my comment) is going on as if this post is about Substack, almost as if it was written by a technology that cannot understand context.

[โ€“] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago

+1 for this recommendation. Gnome is going to feel more familiar to a MacOS user and Silverblue is very resilient.

[โ€“] Kirk@startrek.website 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The LinkedIn-styled writing here is hard for me to get through, but I think the general gist is that for profit platforms are easier to onboard which I agree with. This line stands out:

And what do we get in return? A worse experience than cloud-based services.

I have to disagree somewhat, it's a different experience that is absolutely more difficult in many ways, but for those of us who value privacy, control over our data, and don't like ads, the trade-off is worth it. Also it goes without saying that the usability of selfhosted apps has exploded in the past few years and it will likely become less and less of an issue.

[โ€“] Kirk@startrek.website 12 points 1 week ago

Fortunately "groupthink" on the fediverse isn't a structural problem since nobody controls all instances and every instance has different moderation styles.

[โ€“] Kirk@startrek.website 17 points 2 weeks ago

I also noticed that when Lemmy links do appear it's often to a random federated instance, not the original source.

[โ€“] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 2 weeks ago

No one person can control everything.

Doesn't seem to be stopping you from trying!

[โ€“] Kirk@startrek.website 0 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Eh, I think you're projecting. He literally owned his instance. He was playing with his own ball at his own house and you got "butthurt" because he didn't want to play with you.

It's no secret that a lot of people are attracted to Lemmy because they felt Reddit mods were too overbearing, but some of us like Lemmy because we didn't think Reddit mods were doing enough about the overbearing users.

[โ€“] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

He said "this" experiment, not "the fediverse" which I interpreted to mean his instance (or perhaps Lemmy).

That said, I'm honestly curious what do you care about his "toxicty" if he's not an admin of your instance? You don't seriously believe you have a right to dictate what he does with his own hardware do you?

[โ€“] Kirk@startrek.website -5 points 2 weeks ago

I'm glad we agree.

[โ€“] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (9 children)

What did you interpret the premise to be? I read the post when it was up, and it read to me like OP was saying essentially that too many toxic users and not enough admins willing to stand up to them make the overall experience not fun.

EDIT: Which is accurate in my mind at least when it comes to Lemmy

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