There is a wine branch that can run Affinity just search for it

Yeah, it just works and you never have to use the command line.

I would say Ubuntu is the next best distro (if you want stability and easy of use)

Totally agree. A lot of negative people here that will push away the average person. I’m talking about political fanatics of course. Maybe some subs need to create a no politics rule.

Mint is the best flavor of linux. I recommend it.

A big problem is too much politics, feels like politics is always brought up even in posts where it’s not the topic of discussion. Just look at this post. Then if someone disagrees with your view they’ll attack you and then they’ll claim they “are on the right side”. People have forgotten the golden rule.

Flutter apps are good but from the UI perspective have their own limitations, you essentially rely on premade UI components and if they don’t support a method you need you’re stuck. And I’ve seen some flutters behave weird. I would build a prototype before committing to it.

thanks

That’s not true. Go to youtube and read the comments under any lofi video but that’s just one example. When Lemmy just started it was a place for people to escape the fanatics and now it’s becoming more toxic.

Go to any political post. Everyone is calling others names and it’s not productive at all.

I highly suggest ruby on rails. Simple language and amazing to work with.

Me too. It’s worth it.

Good point. They should know they are making public comments. If you want it private then send a private message.

I heard it will send out requests as fast as possible essentially creating a DOS attack but I could be wrong. Also the UI can use some improvement.

It will be very little if not downloading full html pages.

It’s limited to only Peertube and it’s not the most intuitive. I want to work with them on expanding this.

Yep, the idea is to simulate the type of results you get from Google. People trust Lemmy answers more than spam sites now a days.

I mean they are posting on the public internet, they should know that it can be read by anyone. I like the idea of users opting out.

Yep

The fediverse is a few thousand servers, from Mastodon, Lemmy, etc. Can’t say the amount of posts but there are a lot.

So on the more technical side, I plan on using a light weight fast search engine called Sonic (It’s written in rust). I have already used it in other projects and it can handle billions of messages / posts. But it has a cost it doesn’t have faceted search, like for example if you want to exclude certain texts from the results. I think this is a fair trade off. The other solution would be to use something more mature like ElasticSearch but it’ll be expensive (I’m assuming not much money will be made from this and I’m talking about donations)

For scanning sites there are premade lists to start with and it’ll be possible to scan new sites from other instances if found. So a bit of both.