Dopamine. The best player after some years of searching.

Oh, exactly! There’s a pinned post in the community that reports Lemmy version updates on the server.

Fantlab for the Russian-speaking community. Couldn’t find anything better on the Anglosphere internet.

LibraryThing for English-speaking people. I use it for the rest.

The author’s explanation using HTTP as an example:

HTTP has somehow managed to live in a parallel universe, as it’s technically still completely federated: anyone can start a web server if they have a public IP address and anyone can connect to it. The catch, of course, is how you find the darn thing.

Might be helpful to someone: flibusta.is, flibusta.site, flisland.net. Flibusta is the largest pirate library in Russian.

Agreed! Many times I faced the fact that the Chrome developers don’t follow the W3C standards, but they require it from Mozilla. Therefore, some functionality will only work in Chrome, but not in Mozilla (it’s not their bad!).

I’m surprised no one’s posted about Skiff.

I had no problem with the previous two frontends (Piped, Invidious). But the main problem with this type of application is that when an enough number of users are reached, YouTube starts banning requests from their instances. Have the authors of this frontend thought about how they will solve this?

Here, the author refers to protocol as federated, not application. That is, he is comparing Matrix, IRC, SMTP, ActivityPub, etc. If a protocol can be used to develop an application that is decentralized and distributed, then such protocol can be called a federated protocol. I agree with you that labeling HTTP and FTP as federated is bizarre. But the author compares them because they are all from the same OSI model layer - application layer.

I’m not the author, just trying to give an explanation of how he was thinking (and I’m most likely wrong 😄).

Let me tell you a secret: any linux distribution is a kernel + a set of pre-installed drivers and programs + their configs. Nothing more than that! Most distributions use the same kernel and roughly the same set of programs. The only differences are in the desktop environment and initial settings.

I would recommend Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) as a start choice. Do not trust those who say that if you choose a “beginner’s distro” you won’t have to get into the console or text configs. Your choice of distro will determine how often you’ll do this.

As a regular user, I’ve used different distributions and always something didn’t work. Many issues couldn’t be solved via GUI, so I had to deep dive into both the console and all Linux services.

P.S. Arch Linux daily-driver.