wet_lettuce

Ubuntu is the typical go-to.

Id recommend pop!_os personally.

Fedora is another great option.

The reality is, as a new Linux user, you'll probably hop around quite a bit. I say go for it! Try out everything you want.

The polonium treatment!

Honestly though, was this just another dumb pointless trucker convoy by ignorant morons?

https://imgflip.com/i/7qfxyt

I'm gonna throw this out there:

If Meta is going to join the fediverse (or implement something with activitypub) there is absolutely nothing we can do to stop them.

It's an open protocol. They can use it.

The only thing we can do is force them to follow the AGPL and/or fork the code if they get crazy with change requests.

This is a really good call out. I've been thinking about this article since I read it earlier today, and I never thought about the distinction between user groups and how people used xmpp vs how people use a activitypub Lemmy/kbin.

I think you are spot on.

Which actually makes me think that mastodon might have a little to worry about since its less anonymous and who you follow actually matters. And there is more interaction between (not anonymous) people.

My friends are like your friends in that we all use reddit, but never even share our usernames with each other.

How fucking old is this story?

This is from 2013.

This is exactly the type of friction that made RiF my "reddit". It's not even close to the same experience and it's painful.

My hot take: I'm okay with a barrier to entry (right now).

Getting setup on the fediverse isn't necessarily a super simple process and there is a bit of learning curve for how it works.

That's okay. I actually like it. Here's why.

It means the people here want to be here. It means the people here understand what it is and more importantly what it isn't. It's not a reddit clone. It's not even old school forums. It's this.

And "this" isn't even it's final form. I fully expect for the fediverse to evolve over the next few months and years. As a community develops and the technology is refined, I am sure it will all get simpler as we knock off the rough edges.

In the mean time, this tiny barrier to entry keeps a lot of the whiners and naysayers away. It keeps people that only want a reddit clone, away. If you want reddit, use reddit. It's not going anywhere anytime soon.

It's a balancing act, because we don't want to turn so many people away that we can't build a reasonable community, but you also don't want a bad copy of a system people are leaving.

I think the calculus is: they can do it and not lose many users.

They think people leaving won't move the needle or they are so fucked financially they have to take the risk.

I haven't deleted my account, but I haven't looked at reddit since before the blackout. Once rif goes away, I'll likely never go back in any sort of active capacity.

I think they'll feel this one. Maybe not at first but there are lots of old (10+ year) active (serious karma) accounts that are leaving. They'll pull a Twitter and slowly die.

That's amazing. I appreciate the priorities.

Is your isp /network up? Or do you fail over to lte ?

Kbin's performance, especially initially, was pretty terrible-- with the cloudflare ddos protection on top of general lagginess. It still feels clunkier and slower.

It looks nicer and seems more..polished? (Don't know the right word) but it's also more confusing. I don't understand the microblog verse threads vs magazines tbh.