linucs

joined 1 year ago
[–] linucs@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Underworld by Don DeLillo

[–] linucs@lemmy.ml 74 points 11 months ago

Pipewire is a true blessing for Linux

[–] linucs@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I don't know what you're using for Lemmy and have never used Apollo but I'm using Voyager and many people say it really feels like Apollo. P.S. I am using the web app but they also have native app options now

[–] linucs@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Of course books are very valuable, but I would say that for language learning, at least for me, they are insufficient since they lack people pronouncing the words

[–] linucs@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Guess you're right, too bad I'm not a kid anymore.

Cool thing about being an EUer is that I don't need to be undocumented, I could travel, work, live in another EU country with a different language from mine without a problem, but I currently busy in my own country and want to learn french

[–] linucs@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is a great suggestion, thanks!

[–] linucs@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They just copied the idea from terrorists

[–] linucs@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Can you please explain how you did it or link to a guide explaining it? It could be useful to many people

[–] linucs@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Awesome news! Hopefully more and more distros will catch up too.

[–] linucs@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

It's a good, and very scary, reading but I would argue that it does not directly translate here because Lemmy / Kbin and Reddit are not social media per se, they are content focused instead of being person focus. Here no one cares who you are, we are all here for content. The XMPP EEE succeeded because once defederated people were not able to talk to their friends, defederating Threads would cut us off from strangers and their content, it's not a big deal.

We'll see what happens, hopefully the Fediverse will not be another free social media attempt killed by greedy corporates.

[–] linucs@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

That's what I'm saying, they would allow people to have the choice to leave. I guess they could introduce features that work only among users of Threads (i.e. Extend in the EEE paradigm) to convince people to stay / switch over, but still people would have the choice not to care.

 

I saw memes about it and many comments against it but I was wondering if there was a list of instances whose admins already said they will / won't federate with Meta's Threads.

Or if there is a public discussion happening among admins to decide a common strategy or something.

Personally I'm a little worried about comments saying stuff like "if we federate with them I'm out of here" because I read the article by Mastodon CEO [1] and found it to be very reasonable. If someone doesn't want to interact with Meta they won't need to, even if other users on the same instance will do it. Or am I wrong?

I guess the risk is that Threads gets extra features and people from the Fediverse move to it thinking "I can still be part of the Fediverse even if I'm using Threads" and then suddendly Meta defederates and they are locked in. But I really don't think many people from Lemmy / Kbin would switch in the first place so I guess that won't be a huge problem.

I know many people who, when asked "what do you use Instagram for?", told me they use it to follow the pages / people they like. And I think we can extrapolate that for these people being on Lemmy instead of Threads would make a little difference, if it still allows them to follow who they want. And they can be convinced with privacy concerns points. I'm not saying 90% of people, given the choice, would leave Meta for a FOSS alternative, hell not even 10% maybe, but I'm sure there's a non-zero amount of people who would.

And, as the Mastodon CEO said, if Meta at a certain point decides to defederate we would be back to the point where we are now.

[1] https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/

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