I don’t have the time for that either. I’m working full time and that kind of project is better suited for a student with lots of free time. :)

It doesn’t really matter what they use. As long as it’s open source and decentralized, avoiding big tech running the servers, it’s a huge win.

There is no peaceful existence with big tech when it comes to this. They will turn it into ads and tracking and that’s not compatible with the moral values of the open source community.

It’s Microsoft culture vs Linux culture.

All instances using federation are publicly visible and it’s simple to script attacking all of us.

However it’s even easier to just attack Lemmy.world since almost everyone is there and it will have maximum disruption on everyone. People have centralized on one server. :)

But it’s just some denial of service attacks right now. Eventually they probably get tired of it too. There is no point to it really.

I can build what I want, it’s more about having ideas in think. Except math intensive things, I’m not interested in algorithms.

The instance is known by its domain name in the federation network. If that domain name changes, it’s like starting a new instance from scratch.

Sounds like a complicated project to migrate communities and posts and users to a new instance without breaking something.

Can you share some ideas for programming projects? I have time but no ideas.

Well of course. Lemmy is not censored like the other social media platforms so you will get to hear what people actually think here.

A lot of people feel uncomfortable around gay and trans people. It will take time.

This didn’t happen a month ago. More users, more idiots.

Yes. I’m already noticing a lot more rude and immature people as the number of users grow.

Lemmy.world disagrees and wants to be the next reddit. :p

Yeah I can see your point. And I smiled at “freezing cold”. I mean, to me it’s more like “people acting” but its always up for subjective interpretation. Also depends on who is in your list of contacts. I have mostly recruiters I don’t know at all.

I think I’m starting to hate “professional”.

It literally means playing a corporate role, not being genuine, trying to get connections to make your career take off.

It’s not genuine, or warm, or fun… It’s just corporate shit. What a world.

They are not duplicated (just the same name) and it’s not impossible to subscribe to them all with a few clicks.

Use https://lemmyverse.net/communities and simply search for communities and subscribe to them.

Had no idea this existed. Thanks!

I love this wm and when it comes to Wayland, it will be super interesting to try out :)

It happened when all the non-techy people joined social media.

They are all quite good, the clients. :) And now I have to try Voyager I guess…have to know what it looks like!

I don’t think any of these movies care at all about physics. They also have girls fighting as if they were twice their weight and power, kicking much bigger guys across the room. It’s silly.

Physical gender differences exist even in this crazy age of 2023 where people get upset for mentioning them.

Without that feeling that the hero may lose (which doesn’t exist in 99% of movies now), it’s just so boring to watch. Zzzz.

How about movies like Fast and the Furious where every single fight scene is ridiculous? They really don’t care about realism in those movies. I watch like 10 minutes and then I turn it off because it’s like watching a computer animation.

I don’t like it either, specially when watching with my girlfriend. Feels awkward.

Yeah I’m cancelling streaming services myself, felt completely robbed by paying 3 or 4 of them and still rarely something worth watching.

I have only amazon and HBO left now. Amazon mostly because of free express delivery of items.

You haven’t tried Kagi then.

Maybe they care more about their users than being number one.

These companies are horrible. It’s the right time to block them right now.

The growing server requirements…

I think like 99% of people picked accounts on the top 10 servers, and there are hundreds of more servers out there that have only a few users. Why do you all flock to the same server (Lemmy.world in particular) and then go “shit this is getting expensive guys”. :)

Fediverse. Federated. Not Centralized. Not Reddit.

This technology supports speeding out, so many people (instance admins) share the costs.

Have to agree with others, we don’t want the majority from reddit here. They helped to turn reddit into crap.

I would rather see this be like the Linux community. Just a few percent of users, but all very motivated and interested in Linux.

It’s already over, actually kind of boring. Please hack again.

Maybe ditching Lemmy.world makes sense but signing up on Lemmy.ml doesn’t. Pick smaller instances and spread out guys. That’s the entire point. :)

It’s a bit funny that 100k users signed up on the same instance… :)

You don’t give much thought to what Threads wants to do to the fediverse, and your concern is only what benefits yourself in the short term.

Just be aware of that. Many of us older folks have seen this process happen over and over. Threads will start to dictate what activitypub will be, and once it has many millions of users, it gives them power to influence the entire protocol.

And if people don’t like that, they will have to come up with a new protocol and start over again. Which is exactly the cycle we are constantly experiencing.

I think we should not let them into our instances. Keep them as a corporate funded version of the fediverse, separate from the ones run by individuals.

But since each instance owner is free to do what they want, I estimate that many will federate with threads and suffer the consequences in the future.

How is it better than just going to a torrent search site? It has a lot more content?

Sure go ahead. :)

Transmission since you can select files inside a torrent and prioritize them, or choose to not download some files.

Yup its configured on each instance in the admin settings.

I think its the only way to not be completely dependent on some single entity.

So far we have seen all of them go bad with time. At least with federation, you and me can talk with no corporation in the middle, which brings me back to the lovely feeling of the 90’s with BBS’s and forums. Before the corps took over and put ads everywhere, and basically took the world hostage.

If something big happens, ordinary people need to be able to talk without censorship. And its going to be very hard to censor a distributed network like Lemmy.

People still are arguing for downvotes here on Lemmy. I think they are poison to a good community. They are not helping to moderate - they are silencing opinions and creating echo chambers.

I have made 464 comments in the last month appearently. Thats a lot more than on reddit for sure. And then I was on vacation for two weeks in that time… :)

For me its the neck… always stiff and hurts now when getting older. Probably need to exercise!

Some instances like mine don’t require emails because I think that should be up to the user to choose. If he forgets his password, he can’t do a reset if he doesn’t have an email. But if he uses a password manager, that’s very unlikely to happen anyway.

Everything should be private by default. All this shit about nothing to hide is the opposite of that - trying to justify why something should be private. The question is rather why it should be public.

There companies profit enormously on our data and we get exactly nothing in return except the ability to use their service, under the conditions that they put in place. We have zero power to change anything at all about what they provide for us.

A user in that context is similar to a loser. Someone who has no ability to control what happens.