I think it’s really cool here. The people have been mostly friendly, the communities I’m following are decently active, and new features are being added every day. I honestly have very few complaints.
I think it’s really cool here. The people have been mostly friendly, the communities I’m following are decently active, and new features are being added every day. I honestly have very few complaints.
Out of curiosity, what problems are you having with the drivers? I have a GTX 1070ti graphics card and the drivers for it have been ok on Linux, the integration hasn’t been as smooth as Windows but I haven’t had any problems.
Thunder and wefwef are also pretty good. I really like the gesture controls on them though, so that may be biasing me a bit.
The quality of the posts being worse makes sense, I’m guessing some of the Reddit power users moved here and they were generating the majority of quality OC on Reddit.
Essentially yes, that’s what we need. Unfortunately, that type of functionality is still limited, though I hope with the more advanced third-party apps on the way we’ll get a sort of pseudo-support for it in the mean time.
Because the goal was to ban third party apps and they don’t want people trying to dodge it. u/spez seems to be personally offended by their existence and wants them gone.
Yeah, I think this is done to provide the illusion of choice. The rate limits are high enough to allow personal emails through, but for any mass emails or corporate emails this forces you to use Google. Unfortunately a standard corporate strategy, it’s why corporate office suites are so generic and tend to be from one of the big companies.
As long as you have a domain or IP address for the instance, the apps should be able to connect to it.
Yeah, this place sort of just has a better spirit right now. I hope it’s able to hold onto this vibe as it grows.
I definitely am. I may have more comments and posts here than on Reddit already and I have only been here a fraction of the time.
Greg is determined, and is willing to see his vision through. Maybe you should respect Greg?
Our first obscure piece of Lemmy lore. May there be many more into our future.
I figured I’ll write up a tldr on Embrace, Extend, Extinguish in case you aren’t really feeling reading the articles.
Embrace: Meta builds a federated Twitter/Reddit alternative, potentially called Threads but is right now P92, that follows the ActivityPub standard almost perfectly. Various Lemmy and KBin instances federate with them and share information. Users from Facebook and Instagram flood into P92, making it one of the largest instances.
Extend: P92 starts adding nice, but proprietary features to their system. The allure of these features begins drawing users off of other instances to P92. Those instances are upset, but Meta insists it’s doing nothing wrong, continues to follow the ActivityPub standard in some form, and tells the other instances to just implement the features themselves.
Extinguish: Meta announces that due to incompatibility, they are withdrawing from the standard and defederating from everyone. Most users of this software are now on P92, and thus don’t mind. Meta gets a fully populated Twitter/Reddit alternative, and the remaining ActivityPub instances wither. Without user support, the standard fails, and a new open source alternative is created to replace it.
That strategy has been used to kill other open source protocols, and many people are worried it will happen again. My personal opinion is that servers should only federate with Meta if they follow the standard perfectly, and if they deviate even a little bit they should be universally defederated via software changes, but I’m sympathetic to the people that would rather be proactive than reactive.
This is a really good idea, hopefully it will pull more people to our communities.
The Verge’s coverage of this so far has been really good. It’s probably because they think drama like this will get a lot of clicks, but even still I’ve enjoyed their articles.
Ah yes, I’m sure mass firing mods and replacing them with random assholes will be very good for the Reddit community.
Honestly, we’re a minority of users and if we just left the only thing Reddit would notice is that posts were lower quality, and it’s possible they wouldn’t notice that at all. Going out loudly draws publicity to Reddit alternatives, and I think that harms them more in the long term.
I like it when various programs at least ask before invasively scraping my data. If asked, I’ll often say yes because I want to help the developers, but when it’s silent and in the background I have no control and I don’t like that
I’ve been feeling the same way. It’s why I’ve been much more active in comment chains and why I’ve replied to a lot more posts, though I still have a bit of trouble with actually posting.
Yeah, this happens a lot, especially when I’m tired. Luckily, I usually leave cues for myself so that I remember what I was doing.