One comment does not a whole commenter make! I’ve had a few cases where someone acts poorly on one post, but is usually a conscientious and interesting commenter. Personally, I want to see more conversation, so I’m hesitant to ban people, but if your math is different, that’s fine!
It looks like Cider is released as a Flatpak or AppImage. I’m not super familiar with building these/troubleshooting, but the error messages you are getting look like a poorly packaged app (Failed to load module “xapp-gtk3-module”).
IMHO, you should consider doing more troubleshooting on Kmail. I’ve never used it personally, but from my understanding, it’s a stable program and shouldn’t have problems doing the basics of email, like you’re reporting.
I think you’re on to something.
I also think there’s a difference in where the network effect kicks in for different types of social media. IMHO, Lemmy has just enough activity to not feel empty, and even then I wish there was more comments to interact with and more niche communities. With Pixelfed, I feel like as long as there’s enough interesting posts it makes sense for people to visit regularly.
That makes perfect sense. Thanks for explaining it so well!
He’s pragmatic
Really? To me, most everything he says comes off as completely impractical. I appreciate that he came up with enshittification, and some of his thoughts are great, but most of it is pie-in-the-sky thinking that could only work in some hypothetical utopia,
Wow, you weren’t lying about them “running a very old Lemmy version.” For anyone else curious, on github, the newest version is 0.19.8, released 2024-12-13. lemmy.world is on 0.19.3 released 2024-01-22.
Nope, I don’t usually even see the word Mastodon written 3-4 times in a week. My best guessing this is because Meta-exodus has created a buzz around the fediverse, so I’m seeing more references to Mastodon, and those users are more likely to be new to the service.
What’s with people recently spelling it “mastadon”? This must be the third or fourth post in the last week I’ve seen with that typo.
Well that’s new. Thanks!
Sup hasn’t been released yet, so that’s probably why you haven’t heard of it. Dan says beta testing launches early 2025.
What keeps you away from PeerTube?
The app not being on F-Droid. Once it’s there, I’ll at least try it out. Bonus if there’s an Android TV app too. I’ll watch stuff on PeerTube if I’m given a direct link, and I tried playing around with NewPipe but the experience feels bolted on to the rest of the app.
I think you’re making a lot of assumptions here, many of which I have contentions with.
we had very little moderation in the early days of the internet and social media
It differed from site to site, but in my experience of the Internet in the '90s and '00s, a lot of forums were heavily moderated, and even Facebook was kept pretty clean when I got on it in ~2006/2007.
and yet people didn’t believe the nonsense they saw online,
I fully dispute this. People have always believed hearsay. They’re just exposed to more of it through the web instead of it coming verbally from your family, friends, and coworkers.
unlike nowadays were even official news platforms have reported on outright bullshit being made up on social media.
We live in a world of 24-hour news cycles and sensationalization, which has escalated over the past few decades. This often encourages ratings over quality.
Mainstream media has always had problems with fact-check. I’m not trying to attack the news media or anything, I think most reporters do their best and strive to be factual, but they sometimes make mistakes. I can’t remember the name of it, but I there’s some sort of phenomenon where if you watch a news broadcast, and they talk about a subject you have expertise in, you’re likely to find inaccuracies in it, and be more skeptical of the rest of the broadcast.
To me the problem is the godamn algorithm that pushes people into bubbles that reinforce their correct or incorrect views
Polarization is not limited to social media. The news media has become more and more tribal over time. Company that sell products and services have been more likely to present a political world-view.
Overall, I think you’re ignoring a lot of other things that have changed over the years. It’s not like the only thing that has changed in the world is the algorithmic feed. We are perpetually online now and that’s where most people get their news, so it’s only natural that would also be their source of disinformation. I think algorithmic feeds that push people into their bubbles is a response to this polarization, not the source of it.
We can try it out since there is both @lemmy@lemmy.ml and !lemmy@lemmy.ml
When I searched for lemmy@lemmy.ml on Mastodon (specifically masto.ai), I got the community, not the user. Not sure why, but that’s what I got.
I assume by “on mobile” you mean “iOS” since on Android it’s super easy to redirect YouTube links to a 3rd party app.
Is that a limitation of the destination filesystem?
Now I am faced with needing to replace my SSD which gives me reason enough to install a new distro.
Replacing an SSD is pretty simple on Linux; just copy over the data, adjust the partitions, select the new drive in UEFI/BIOS. If you want to try a different distro, any time is good, but a new SSD doesn’t require a reinstall.
My advice from my distro-hopping days is to dual-boot with potential new distros (unless space is at a premium). I just made sure to share important folders like /home/. That way, if I didn’t like my new setup, I could quickly fall-back to the old.
If you’re new, IMHO you should be looking at the distro as a whole, not the DE specifically. Yeah, if you find one you mostly like but want to try other similar distros, it’s probably a good thing to stay with the same DE. However, it’s not something to get hung up on as distros often tweak the DE.
And to answer your question, Cinnamon. After years of distro-hopping, I’ve spent most of the past decade on Linux Mint.
When I open your link for radiotray-ng, it says, “ebruck released this 2 weeks ago.” You’ll also notice if you go to the Releases page, it doesn’t show the year for the current year, but does for past years.
It appears to be still working on old.reddit. I no longer have an account there, but occasionally check on communities I miss here and RES still seems to be chugging away.