BendyLemmy

This is hearbreaking news - and I'm a little shocked to realise that the creators of Apollo can't simply walk away from the app which got scuttled (or, more likely, actively sabotaged by deliberately extreme Reddit attack).

They should be able to take this to court to redirect the affected people to claim their refund from Reddit.

Maybe time to move up to Manjaro ;) 6 years it never happened to me. With KDE the last year or so, we had some extensive delays before it stabilised enough to be considered stable.

It would appear that the protest wasn't much more than a flash in the pan.

However, I do hope that the people who found other channels won't neglect them and favour the Fediverse...

I certainly will not return to regular use of Reddit (though I'm sure that, for now, searches will still bring many relevant results available only there - I'll open them anonymously).

I use RSS feeds.

For a long time I tried to avoid being roped in by the biggest dominant players. I was once on holiday for a month and found myself locked out of my Google account because of something that happened on my Youtube channel whilst I was away (4 spam uploads - I have no idea how, but even deleting them didn't help).

After my first few months on Reddit, the same thing happened. One subreddit for my main torrent client banned me for telling someone I think their idea was a bit stupid. Zero tolerance... so I ended up having to leave all that behind and start up a new account.

I left Microsoft for Linux in 2013, and apart from a few evil email accounts, I have very nice (free) secure accounts too.

I don't use Chrome, or chromium browsers - I use Firefox.

So really, discussing Firefox on r/Firefox on Reddit always struck me as being a rather stupid idea.

I just hope that over the next ten years we'll see a newer, and less centralised form of content begin to emerge...

Can you believe that people would go to Reddit and have serious discussions about how bad Google is, about how bad Youtube is, about how evil Facebook is.

This is just another WAKE UP call.

https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

You know that Google and Reddit own the internet - so just go there, and make sure you're using a Chromium based browser because that's the market share too.

That way, you can work to create a Fediverse whilst Google and friends succeed in closing all the loops to take total control of your internet and browser.

Other people will say they 'search'.

Part of the marketing strategy is to make Microsoft, Google, Reddit etc the default.

Why reinforce it?

The issue is becoming accessible to Search.

Not specifically to become accessible to Google.

Here's one example of something I found OUTSIDE the fediverse via search.

I use SearXNG, but I remember that one came via Qwant search and NOT via Google.

Language IS very important here, and it's important to avoid always using 'default' branded options which are not and should never be considered the default.

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You must state what system you run to get this experience... Are you a 'buntu user?

extra/gimp 2.10.34-1 (20.3 MiB 113.4 MiB) (Installed)

• NOT a single issue with this package since I installed GIMP via pacman some 6 years ago.

I have no reason to install the bloated flatpak version.

No reason at all.

Haha this is stunning - that someone will choose something so they are not forced to use a terminal.

Please tell us how you can install and use SearXNG, or Prowlarr, or Overseerr with your superb GUI tools?

Let's face it. For anyone who ever used and is knowledgable about Windows, we must admit that the road to make Linux really useable from GUI alone is a very long one (and one that most of us just get bored with).

not really sure i want ubuntu as my DD

• You get comfortable in your old shoes.
• Even when things SNAP.

But when you put on a new pair of shoes, within a week or two, they become more comfortable than the old ones...

Such is my journey from Ubuntu to Mint, and then over to Manjaro/Arch.

I can't say I tried Pop, because my initial aim was to hop from Debian and try out something new... and I just tossed a coin between Fedora and Manjaro at that time.

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YMMV

I run Manjaro with KDE on X11.... I use a lot of mouse gestures, so I can't sit with Wayland.

• I found the SYSTEM is extremely stable for ME. It is important to say this every time...

• I find KDE is often less stable... I had at least 2 issues I couldn't explain/understand and just fixed with restoring contents of .config from snapshots.

This is one area where Manjaro 'held back' and did actually save us from a lot of the bleeding edge (5.26 was a rough ride)... but that's not an 'Arch' issue, that's a 'KDE' issue.

But the USER likes to tip the boat until it does a barrel roll, or sinks entirely... and this is mostly what divides the happy users. Sometimes it's just basic hardware, sometimes it's the USER habits/modus operandi.

So we have Snapshots, and we have rsync backups to a mounted drive.... Then it matters not - a quick restart fixes most issues, and a reinstall takes only 6 minutes with no data lost -> in backups.

That's stable enough for me.

BTW, I use AUR quite a lot - and it never actually caused me an issue, other than some stuff needing rebuilds.

It doesn't wear off. I fell off a skateboard when I was 59, only the torn rotator cuff (and 1 year of painful rehab) let me know I shouldn't have tried going down that hill...

Download this - I've got plenty spare.