Linux is free, is thought to be more secure than alternatives when properly configured, and isn’t a scam?

I’m not saying Brave is good, just that it’s not because something is free that it’s bad

Regardless of if it’s on the visual spectrum or not, it’s all called light as long as it’s electromagnetic radiations

Radio waves are light, gamma rays are light, gravitational waves are not, sound waves are not

Piracy against big corporations? Sure, but indie devs? That’s gonna hurt them far more and they usually haven’t done anything to uustify it

I usually put on some PBS Space Time, not quite podcast, but I often don’t look at the visuals when trying to sleep. The videos are short (about 15min) , but provided it’s between 23:30 and 00:30, it usually takes only about 5 minutes before I fall asleep.

Used to do audiobooks, but that would fail if I was too invested in the book…

No, I wanted to explain why I don’t believe in their existance, but I couldn’t write something without comming off as an asshole, so sorry.

Yes, but the important part is understanding the flaws of what you are standing up for.

Long story short, they don’t have the mod capacity to micromanage evry single comment, since unless you defederate, you have to moderate every comment and post that gets seen by your instance, so the whole fediverse basically, and they just can’t do that.

Some instances have attracted some toxic behaviors and federating with them added an influx of comments that weren’t in line with their rules.

They decided to defederate all the big instances that didn’t filter sing ups.

It’s a blanket solution, and honestly, I don’t blame them for it, lemmy moderation is a bit hell.

Their rules are a bit strict, but I approve of what they are trying to do, creating a “safe” space… The rest of the fediverse is a bit of a far-west with anything goes being the rule…

I personally love the screen ratio

It mostly comes because a linux system is essentially a collection of much smaller programs that do one simple thing each, and each of those programs has alternatives.

So doing a gui for one program would allow you to control that one and not the others, and if you were using an alternative, you wouldn’t have that gui.

Now trying to make a gui that agglomerates the most common ones has been done for userspace, mostly on specific distros… but when it comes to administering systems… it’s a different story.

services, dns, ntp, boot, wm, lm, firewall, dhcp… all of these have important things to touch, but also have different programs that implement them.

Most authors of these programs don’t bother with gui, mostly because it’s quite some work, but also because it’s not their problem. UNIX philosophy is very much do one single thing and do it well… and when you can do a simple CLI that allows users and PROGRAMS to communicate with your program, why bother with GUI if it only accommodates one part of that equation?

Devs don’t bother with GUI not because they think it’ll be useless, but because it’s a lot of extra work for something that ultimately will be less reliable than CLI…

One reason why linux is so good at doing servers is that no system software needs a GUI to work. Windows server has a headless version, but look how many applications are just unable to run on it as they all rely on GUI…

So in a way, having CLI first and GUI second is a blessing, even if it makes the first approach more difficult for users.

We have tp do something similar

Honestly? Not really, actually I am glad things are getting mixed up again.

While twitter is slowly burning out, and with reddit just deciding to randomly self-destruct, this leaves a lot of space for this project which I find absolutely amazing.

This thing has potential to become so much more than reddit could ever become, and it feels so… Wild-west? Not 4chan style bs but like small communities can persist in a dark corner for a long time, and have less problems of exploding out of control with bots and frequent reposts…

Of course the ‘main’ instance is seeing some problems atm, but that’ll push people away from it and toward smaller instances.

This is going to be great, I want to be a part pf this journey