Man I’m glad to hear that, cause the US isn’t exactly a dependable ally right now 😅 (sorry, I wish we were 🥲)

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.

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 [email protected] 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 😅

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

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”

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

I’m not really convinced many IDF soldiers are facing significant risk of losing their life, at least in combat- my impression has been that they and Hamas aren’t exactly evenly matched in terms of resources 😅

I could absolutely be wrong, I’m not terribly well informed on the conflict and what combat casualties each side has suffered

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.

At some point I will but I’m not currently ready to make that transition. My friend and I are using Duolingo together and the social aspect plus the familiarity of the structure have been really helpful

They walked back the ai thing (at least that’s my understanding about it, I think there was a statement about it, not that that means much) but it’s very clear it wont be something that’s likely to work for me long term

But for the time being the structure that it provides and its format has helped me build a routine and actually stay pretty consistent, and I don’t think I’m at a place yet where I can transition away from it

But I have checked out the Foss options and there were some neat supplemental tools on f-droid, and at some point I’ll go through the play store and try out direct alternatives

This seems like it’ll break things like revanced, which honestly makes me sad mostly for Duolingo :(

Really hope folks find a way of spoofing this too. I’m hoping to switch to a custom ROM in the future and this doesn’t bode super well

Curious if you’re running the comic font for accessibility reasons. It’s not my taste aesthetically but I’ve heard its great for folks with dyslexia

Lovely pannel! Font might not be my cup of tea but it’s a great looking setup!

That’s the kinda shit that makes me wanna scream and put my head through the drywall 😅 I dunno why, but this specific kinda tech issue just gets me tilted faster than anything else lol

Lmao

Yeah, as someone with a circadian rythm disorder DST time changes kinda destroy me. Every single year, twice a year.

I’m hoping the US manages to get rid of it, we had a bill to do just that get unexpectedly far, before stalling out I think :/

Sending love from the US, y’all take care :)

That’s very fair! I was concerned by that video too, though I would point out that if I remember right, the games in that video don’t work on non-steamdeck devices including if you install steamos on a laptop or desktop

There kind of is though. I’m not here to argue it’s enough to unseat windows but it is markedly different

From a technical standpoint it’s just another linux distro with some nice tweaks for gaming but from a human perspective it has brand recognition, familiarity, a known company behind it. Those things do really matter for adoption. No idea if that’d be anywhere near enough, I’m not inclined to make predictions, but it does have explicit advantages over consumers hearing they can get a laptop with Ubuntu or fedora on it

You should cross-post to [email protected]! Its not a perfect fit but this is such a beautiful object, I’m sure folks there would love to see it!