I was bullied for off Lemmy.One by the hexbear mods who sent hexbear users my way to harass me…

All for (while I’m still a raging communist) not being a pro authoritarian communist.

Well, one of the alternatives is what ID Software used to do, where they would sell the game for a period of time and then open source the code Once sales dropped off.

The open sourcing of the quake engine is where a lot of modern engines got their roots.

The XZ thing is actually a great point to open source’s favor. All it took was some dude to figure it out.

If you try to inject maligned code, you will be found out. That can’t happen with proprietary software.

The artist and nerd Venn diagram is practically a circle around my parts.

Im of the opinion that the distro is far less important than the Desktop Environment. Ubuntu only really “feels like Ubuntu” because of GNOME.

If they don’t cache your search history to your identity, which they claim they don’t, then I’m not sure why that’s a problem.

I ended up giving up and just putting a Linux PC attached to my TV as a media center. I host plex on it.

Reddit has axed access to Nordic VPN connected devices sadly, so no more reddit in my searches

Kagi has kicked ass for me. Its paid, but you get what you pay for.

The only sore spot is image search.

Read better please.

My worry with them is that they aren’t defederated from hex-bear, but I suppose that they’re already updated to version 19, then I can hop aboard and block the ibstance

I don’t want everyone to defederate with threads, I just want my server to defederate with threads, or else I’ll leave and find another one. But it seems like looking at this post that there’s about 80% of people that agree with me here.

Threads is part of the Fediverse now. Literally all it would be is joining an instance that you agree with.

That we are federating with Threads and are going to put our information directly into their servers.

That’s the thing, though, you can’t just quote-unquote “scrape activity pub.”

You have to pick every single instance. Believe it or not, not all data is just on every single instance. It’s usually cached by users connecting with different instances.

It really comes down to whether you believe that Facebook is scraping the entire internet right now or not.

I’d prefer to not directly feed my information into their servers.

Honestly I dont think they are data scraping the entire internet. There is no evidence to believe they are.

I dont want to manually feed my data to them on a silver platter.

Meta doesnt need a short leash, it needs put down.

I highly recommend subscribing to his Patreon page since peertube gives him no monetization avenues understandably.

I quite like his podcast he does for Patreon members every week. Just a short life/channel update series.