thatfuckinglinuxguy

You’re welcome to have your own opinions. But I think actions speak louder than words

And so far, based on their actions, IMO they are being a bit elitist. They can prioritize whatever they want… But by doing so, it becomes clear that they are not interested in the users leaving reddit, so I will not pity them when those users end up elsewhere.

Then again, I am not in the “p.c. language” camp - as anyone who bothered to read my screen name can tell immediately - and am probably not in the demographic they’re going for anyway.

If you are referring to this

I wouldn’t mind one bit if kbin/beehaw were defederated from each other

then, unless you have some insider knowledge, I think you may be mistaken. kbin and beehaw are not defederated … at least not yet.

federated = joined in an alliance, e.g. linked

defederated = not federated, e.g. blocked / censored / not linked

source: https://beehaw.org/instances

Linked Instances

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• kbin.social

I find it a bit ironic how so many people are pointing out how “growing is important to federation” specifically in reference to this… but at the same time, beehaw are one of the few sites that are against growth (as can bee seen by their requiring to get approved in order to join their server… which IMO is no better or worse than tilde’s invite requirement)… and, given the timing, it would seem that they are against hosting reddit refugees in particular.

Yes, you can claim it is for keeping beehaw’s site stable or curating users or plenty of other more palatable reasons. But at the end of the day, you are still turning users away. I have a lot of respect for kbin not closing its doors to new users, despite the load it is placing on their infrastructure.

Personally, I wouldn’t mind one bit if kbin/beehaw were defederated from each other (not advocating for it, just saying I wouldn’t care whatsoever if it happened on its own)

Exactly. The ask is about user convenience and functionality rather than mirroring Reddit. If there was a better way, I am not at all opposed to that as long as I retain the ability to make what amounts to my own curated, personal feeds.

And I agree, even just being able to pin/favorite mags in-app (currently relying on Firefox bookmarks lol) would be a great add and one that should probably come before my ask

I think that is probably part of a bigger discussion. For the scope of what I was asking, consider it as only a more advanced “view” functionality (in the database sense) that allows displaying results from a specific subset of magazines.

I actually think it would be really cool if such a view worked with federation, as that would allow for things such as having similar magazines/communities/whatever mastodon calls their subreddit equivalent from multiple sources displayed in a single feed (e.g. say one or more lemmy linux communities and kbin Linux communities)… as a single url the user could bookmark as simply “Linux”.

For now though, I would be thrilled to even have this ability for local magazines

• /d = domain (e.g. so for the lemmygrad.ml domain, you’d use https://kbin.social/d/lemmygrad.ml )

And then there is a block button in the right side panel, next to the Subscribe link. At least, for desktop…

For mobile (even in “desktop site” view), it seems to appear beneath the list of posts/etc rather than as a right side panel. Just use find-in-page and search for “Subscribe”; should be right next to that.

Agreed. Indexing helps a LOT for discovery both of new content and old answers alike … Would love to see kbin start showing up in search results instead of Reddit when trying to find answers to technical issues…

Meme is just a repost so I’m not offended or anything (not that I would be even if it was OC)… but are you maybe seeing “centralization” in the sense of “popularity” instead of “control”? (I agree that the choice of words in the meme could have been better…) - Anyway, even if you are, no worries. I was just curious.

I think the original creator was probably more pointing out how with snap, it is next to impossible to create another app store because the source code for the backend is closed source.

While with flatpak it is fully open-source so anyone who wishes to create a new store can do so. Yes, fighting against what’s popular has always been an uphill battle and that would be the case here also. But there would be no technological or legal roadblocks to doing so.

At least, that’s how I understood it

Disclaimer: I generally prefer native packages over flatpaks/appimages myself. I pretty much refuse to even consider using snaps, for variety of reasons, unless they both open-source the backend code and make some other changes to address other pet peeves I have with the project. I’m not holding my breath though.

Discord seems like its gonna be the true reddit successor.

Not disagreeing that the masses will likely flock to it due to brand recognition and such …

But man does that make me sad too… Really hate how locked down Discord is in comparison (like you can’t even browse content without a login and using from the browser is painful compared to using a client). Add in their past (and possibly present) privacy issues and the fact that like Reddit, they are also a centralized site run by another greedy company and I feel like this is yet another recipe for disaster (albeit one that might take awhile to fully materialize)

Not the same guy

And I’m not saying any of these are worthy of going Fedora proper vs Nobara… that’s going to be a personal call for each person I think. I think they’re both good but here are some differences I’ve noticed (not a complete list by any means):

• Nobara updates are a bit behind Fedora’s.
• Nobara switched away from Fedora’s Anaconda installer to Calamares. For many, this is probably a welcome change. For me, it very much was NOT bc Calamares, despite possibly being more intuitive for some, currently does not support all of the same functionality that Anaconda does. For instance, I prefer the Fedora style FDE partitioning scheme (ESP partition + unencrypted ext4 /boot partition + LUKS version 2 volume with /) as well as putting my installs in custom BTRFS subvol’s… Neither of which was supported by Calamares as of 6 months ago when I last checked. Talking about graphical options only for both installers, though if someone knows how to specify it anyway from Calamares, I would be interested.
• Nobara switched to AppArmor recently. For most, this is probably easier than SELinux. And I think it is great that AppArmor is being supported in Nobara. TBH, I wish it were an option in Fedora too despite the fact that I personally would likely continue to use SELinux - but I am just generally in favor of more options.
• Nobara pushes Wayland a lot more than Fedora does. Sure, it is the default in Fedora Workstation (as well as the KDE spin). But if you are in one of those use-cases that isn’t quite ready yet (typically people who either prefer a certain desktop like Cinnamon/Mate, have nvidia cards, and/or have some need for certain x11 windowing tools that don’t have mature replacements yet), then Nobara might be a tougher jump at present