Distro-hopping is a valid hobby, but it’s not for everyone. If you aren’t specifically interested in distros and fiddling with packages, hopping around on your “daily driver” can be disruptive. If you just want something that works, there’s nothing wrong with figuring out which distros do what you need and using one of those for work and play. If something catastrophic happens to a distro to make it literally unusable, you can worry about that when it happens. There is usually something else which is almost the same. Few people will get much value from hopping between distros which are basically the same, just because the distros are put out by different companies or install different packages by default.

This wouldn’t surprise me, among the group buys on GeekHack over the years.

It sounds like SUSE is announcing that it is happy to eat the cost of providing a free distro that is RHEL-compatible, and to offer paid support to customers who want to use a RHEL-compatible distro, all as an add-on to their core business with SUSE. Can anyone correct my understanding?

Why does nobody like Drop?

“There are no Linux gamers. It’s useless”

“Wow, look at all the Steam Deck users!!”

what you see as ads, they see as content.

You’re excusing Soviet atrocities by saying “what about the US.” Try doing the same trick to excuse Nazi atrocities.

Tankies are disgusting.

Who is “they” in phrases like “they control the narrative” and “they’re coming for the platforms”?

Do you have any concrete criticism of the Orkney council? If their fundamental complaint is neglect (evidenced by low per-capita funding relative to other island governments) then it hardly makes sense to blame that on Orkney.

The creator of Lemmy, dessalines, is a tankie, and is also the main admin of lemmy.ml.

Right-wing Europeans have trolled Reddit for so many years I can’t even remember.

this whole situation is just showing investors it’s worth even less if the user base can revolt in the way that it has.

Beatings will continue until morale improves.

Caring might be something that your girlfriend can click off like a light switch

The mob boss who wants $8/mo for a lame service but won’t harm you if you don’t want it?

This post is helpful for highlighting some of the reasons the migration is slow. People who want to chart the future of the Fediverse need to listen to this kind of feedback and think about how to fix the pipeline.

I support the Fediverse but here is one of its problems that needs to be negotiated.

As an individual poster, if an instance bans you or defederates instances that you would like to communicate with, you can wander off to another instance. It’s bad, but it’s not the worst.

As a (prospective) moderator, you have to recognize the danger that an overactive instance admin will crack down on your sub or remove you as a moderator for editorial reasons.

Reddit is pretty slimy, but for years they were broadly hands-off from a moderator perspective. Reddit’s recent actions show that a moderator can put decades of sweat equity into building and maintaining a community - and then get shut out capriciously, without communications channels or other tools to migrate any significant portion of that community. Start over from scratch.

The question for a prospective moderator is whether you can really trust the instance you’re basing your new mag on. Most communities of any size will want insurance of having an instance they control or at least an instance that makes fairly strong assurances about moderator ownership.

If you’re just driving by and you want to own the espresso machine universe on a particular instance, you can create /m/EspressoMachines and arbitrarily name a few other moderators and then wander off, but this kind of moderator is doing very little to grow or maintain the community. It’s arguably irrational to commit to that kind of labor when the rug is likely to be pulled out from under you at any time.

There are existing communities and there is an exodus, so it shouldn’t be necessary for the entire process to repeat from scratch.

Twitter was already shit under Dorsey.

The medium structures and drives the interactions. Decisions about the medium are amplified in effect. (Some) people have always been bad, but what they do and what effect it has varies with the medium.

Creating an instance is not free and requires some effort (including a little research). Discord is free and creating a server is as easy as falling off a log. I don’t like Discord, but let’s be objective about why this happens.